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The amateur performing arts programme of the Auditorio de Tenerife is offering this work tomorrow with free entry until capacity is full

The Amateur Theatre programme of the Auditorio de Tenerife is releasing the work Cuando Alicia llegue (When Alicia Arrives), by the theatre association Puro Teatro, directed by Goyo Bonilla. The first show takes place tomorrow [Friday 28] at 8:00 p.m. at the Tamaragua Cultural Centre, located in the area of El Tablero, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Recommended for an adult audience, entry to the work is free until full capacity is reached.

The story focuses on Ninoska, the owner of a cabaret acquired in circumstances that, for international security reasons, must not be revealed. She allows strange and extravagant characters into her show who recount their experiences inside and outside the cabaret. Although the Russian lady, as her employees call her, complains about the lack of professionalism of her artists, in reality, she is delighted because they fill her venue for a meagre salary. Cuando Alicia llegue (When Alicia arrives) is what can be read on the entrance sign, although nobody knows the origin of this name.

The cast that brings this comedy in the form of a cabaret to life is formed by members of the association: Lidia Dorta, Salomé Torres, María de Viana, Estrella Carmenati, Begoña Pagarza, Jesús Patrón, Glenda Suárez, Julio Sigut, Nuria Neida, Lucas Hehe, José Luis Alayón and Piluca Prada.

The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) is part of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. Teatro Aficionado encourages interest in theatre as a hobby and the production of theatrical plays by the local associations of Tenerife. It aims to stimulate matters such as communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity amongst members who, in turn, belong to youth collectives, cultural collectives, women's collectives, and neighbourhood groups, among others.

Its main objectives are to promote a liking for theatre among different social and cultural groups, to promote the general public's attendance to, and love of theatrical plays; likewise, to contribute to enriching the technical/artistic quality of amateur theatre groups and to create different work groups (directors, actors, costume designers, seamstresses, playwrights, scriptwriters, etc.).

The orchestra has visited Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Laguna, El Rosario, Güímar, Icod, Los Silos, La Orotava and Adeje

The Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) ended the 2022-2023 season with sixty-six performances, bringing together 51,547 spectators. This period began in September with the concert included in the festival of Holy Christ of La Laguna and ended in July with the two programmes of a new edition of the Tenerife International Film Music Festival (Fimucité). In addition to its events at the Auditorio de Tenerife, the orchestra performed its repertoire in the islands Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria and the municipalities of La Laguna, El Rosario, Güímar, Icod, Los Silos, La Orotava and Adeje.

The eighteen subscription programmes had 10,481 spectators, the largest audience was for Tchaikovsky and the piano, which took place on 2 June and was conducted by Felix Mildenberger and the pianist Sandro Gegechkori. The second concert of the season in terms of most followers recorded at the Auditorio was Classical romanticism, held on 28 October, which involved the participation of the Honorary Conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Víctor Pablo, and the violinist Alexandra Conunova. This event was attended by 794 spectators, one more than the third best ranking proposal in terms of public response, which was on 2 December with the presence of the conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire and the cellist Edgar Moreau.

The proposal of the Sinfónica de Tenerife for educational centres and families during last season reached 8,115 spectators in the fourteen concerts offered at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The Firebird was the most sought-after show with 3,517 spectators, followed by Pictures at an Exhibition (3,073) and Al son de Cervantes, with 1,525 people.

This season, the orchestra continued with its visits to different social-health centres, in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Social-Health Care (IASS) of the Island Council of Tenerife, and it visited the municipalities of La Laguna, Güímar and Icod de los Vinos to offer its Open Music programme, in addition to visiting the Penitentiary Centre Tenerife II in El Rosario.

In addition to this initiative, the presence of the Sinfónica de Tenerife outside the Auditorio de Tenerife began in September to mark the festival of the Holy Christ of La Laguna, it continued at the Christmas concert organised by the Port Authority, and in 2023, the orchestra visited Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, as part of a new edition of the Canaries International Music Festival.

Other performances by the Sinfónica de Tenerife outside the municipality of Santa Cruz took place with three extraordinary concerts, held at the Cathedral of La Laguna, at the church San Agustín of La Orotava - as part of the Chamber Music Festival -, and the Auditorio de Adeje, where it performed for the first time at the newly opened cultural venue in the southern municipality.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife participated in a new season of the Opera of Tenerife, where it provided the music for 15 shows: three in Fuenteovejuna, three in Un Ballo in Maschera, three in Der Zwerg, three in The little sweep, two in Tannhauser and the lyric gala Nancy Fabiola and her guests. A total of 12,708 spectators listened to the orchestra in these lyrical proposals.

The Tenerife International Film Music Festival (Fimucité) had two editions during the season. The first of them took place in September, with the programme Cyberpunk Remastered I, while the second was in July with two concerts: Excelsior and Dioses y Detectives.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife participated in another show, called Love, love, love, which brought together 1,413 spectators at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The proposal, which involved Ramón Gener and José Corbacho, consisted of a journey through the most renowned works of classical music and the most important hits of modern music with pieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, but also by Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Madonna and Elton John.

The 2023-2024 season of the Sinfónica de Tenerife is getting underway in September and subscriptions and tickets to attend the nineteen concerts at the Auditorio de Tenerife are now on sale. The general public can purchase different types -complete season or autumn-winter subscription for the first ten programmes- and single tickets are also available for each concert.

For more information relating to the purchase of subscriptions or tickets, it is possible to visit the websites www.sinfonicadetenerife.es o www.auditoriodetenerife.com, and also contact the telephone number 902 317 327 or the box office of Auditorio de Tenerife, from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., except holidays. The ticket office will not be open during the month of August.

The participants, from professionals to school pupils and users of centres and associations, ranged from 7 to 70 years old

Danza en Comunidad (Dance in the Community), a programme of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife, benefitted 300 people in its programmes held between April and July this year. Professionals from different fields, educational and penitentiary centres, non-profit organisations and social associations formed the groups that work was carried out under the slogan Sensación sentida (A felt sense).

Danza en Comunidad implemented three programmes: Formación de formadores (Training of trainers), Residencias de investigación (Research residencies) and Relatoría transversal (Transversal rapporteur). The first involved 22 people who were interested in delving deeper into and learning techniques and dynamics from dance to take into their professional fields, notably including psychology, pedagogy, social work, social and health care and social education. These sessions took place at different venues: the Municipal Dance School in Tacoronte, the Cultural Centre in El Portezuelo (Tegueste) and the Civic Centre Francisco González Hernández in Tejina (La Laguna).

The research residences took place from May to July in the classrooms of the centres and in the spaces of collectives. Seven different groups took part from the secondary schools IES Punta Larga, IES Las Galletas, the Higher Conservatoire of Music, Doctors of the World (a group of educators and another on empowerment), the Orobal Parents' Association and the Penitentiary Facility of Tenerife), which involved 279 participants and 21 educators.

The season ended with a cross-cutting rapporteur consisting of a development process establishing the baselines of the different narratives. Observation served as an inspiration to build through dialogue, a discourse of the body, movement, and sensitivity. This process began during the sessions and is ending now; all the rapporteur pieces fit together so that there can be an ongoing conversation that continues to open up the observation and inspiration of the felt sense Sensación sentida.

The slogan this year refers to a bodily sensation that comes through introspective work and manifests itself as an image, texture, landscape, form, as a "whole" which can gradually crumble. This perspective was the starting point for the movement and relations displayed during the session, where body language was essential. The facilitators Laura Marrero, Carmen Macías, Tania Pérez, Judith García and Dácil Baute led these programmes.

The show, which is based on the phenomenon of supernovae, will have two performances starring the director and three other performers.

This Friday [21st] and Saturday [22nd], the Auditorio de Tenerife is staging the performance PROTO (SN1806), by the Galician creator Janet Novás, at 7.30 p.m. in Castillo Hall. The tickets for this latest show by the dancer and choreographer, a performance based on the phenomenon of supernovas, cost eight euros and discounts are available.

Novás takes the following approach for her piece: “What if we joined together and let ourselves die and explode and then see what other imagery emerges? We are interested and challenged by these experiences of heat, explosion, and visibility of the different layers that comprise us: brightness, death, enrichment of space, and the formation of new systems”. To this end, the creator explores new ways of being in community after "exploding" and thus creating new scenarios that are more collective, brighter, and less catastrophic. Novás explains this "journey from down on earth right up to the stars" that "every end has a beginning."

Janet Novás presents this performance in a coproduction with Xunta de Galicia through the Centro Coreográfico Gallego, Festival TNT (Terrassa) and Auditorio de Tenerife, and with the support of Graner, Centre De Creació De Dansa I Arts Vives (associated artist 22/23) and Centro de Danza Canal.

PROTO (SN1806) is directed by Janet Novás, who stars alongside performers Yuantao Gorriz, Julia Kayser, and Danielle Mesquita. The dramaturgy is in charge of Ricardo Santana, and the artistic accompaniment is by Pablo Lilienfeld. The sound space design is by L'Voix and the lighting is by Cristina Bolívar. Emma Megias and Clea Ventura are the creators of the costumes, whose image has been worked on by Virginia Rota in this production by Adriana Reyes.

The dancer, performer, choreographer, and teacher, Janet Novás, trained in contemporary dance in Madrid, Brussels, and Berlin. In 2007, she began creating and developing her own solo projects. Her work is built through observation, experience, and dialogue with her body as the main tool, committing to a language of her own, shaping the emotional content and aesthetic simplicity that characterise her projects.

She has received several prizes, notably including the 2021 Ojo Crítico Award from RNE, the 2021 Premi de la Crítica Catalana for the best dancer, and the 2011 Injuve Award. Her creations have been presented at different national and international festivals such as Rencontres Chorégraphiques, Festival de Marseille, Festival Nouvelles-Pole Sud, Cement Festival, Dance in Transit, Madrid's Autumn Festival and the Festival Bad, among others. Novás alternates her work as a dancer and a creator with that as a teacher, giving classes and workshops in different centres in Spain, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The shared exchange by the performer from Granada will take place in the Castillo Hall of the Auditorio, with free entry until the full capacity is reached.

This Sunday [16th], the Auditorio de Tenerife is staging the final show of the residency of Amalia Fernández, a member of the Performing Arts and Citizenship Laboratory, with sponsorship from the Regional Institute of Cultural Development (ICDC). Solala will take place at 7.30 p.m in the Castillo Hallo. The entry is free until the full capacity is reached.

The performer from Granada has been in residence at the Auditorio de Tenerife since 3 July with the collaboration of members of the Coro del Ateneo choir of La Laguna. Solala is the title of this project, which will result in a series of short pieces, made to be watched one after another, created and performed by Amalia Fernández. Although the direction, concept, and performance are by the artist in residence, the piece has live illustrations by Andrés Martínez.

The creative process is based on a wish list: Who has never made a wish list? An inventory of resolutions for the new year, a letter to the Three Kings, a promise to the Virgin of the Holy Cave... The wish is the driving force of the action, it is the present that starts venturing into the future.

This project is about the passing of time in different ways: the necessary time it takes to complete something; the time in life that each human possesses; the time on the clock as opposed to time as a subjective perception of the senses; historic and cyclical time, and the time that is shared with others. However, Solala is also about crocheting, creating stories from family photos, reflecting on Cuba and singing all together.

Amala Fernández trained in classical dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Seville and in contemporary dance with different choreographers such as Ana Buitrago, Francesc Bravo, Olga Mesa, Mónica Valenciano and others.

Her professional career has moved from performance (as a member of the company El Bailadero-Mónica Valenciano for 10 years) to independent creation from 2005 on. She is the author, director and performer of the pieces Matrioshka, Kratimosha, En construcción, El resistente y delicado hilo musical, Expografía, Monstruos Musicales and Neti Neti, among others. She has also created other pieces in collaboration with the artists Juan Domínguez, Nilo Gallego, Sonia Gómez and Cuqui Jerez.

As a teacher she has collaborated, among others, with the master’s degree in Stage Practice and Visual Culture at the University of Castile-La Mancha, with the Theatre Institute of Barcelona, with the LOVA Project and with the Reina Sofia museum.

This amateur theatre proposal puts us in the dilemma of the main character who finds a briefcase with 10 million Euros

The Amateur Theatre programme is releasing the work Dinero negro (Dirty Money), by the theatre association Tatrum. The first performance takes place on Friday [7th] at 8:00 p.m. at the Teatro Unión Tejina. The tickets, at a single price of €6, can be ordered through the usual channels of the cultural space in La Laguna.

The story begins when Carlos García finds 10 million Euros in a briefcase. When he gets home, his wife, Ana, has prepared a birthday dinner for him, but he only wants to escape as soon as possible. The doorbell rings and the detective Morales appears, who has followed Carlos due to his strange behaviour. Then, the sister of Ana and her son arrive to join the birthday party, but the taxi that Carlos has ordered to escape also parks up. Confusion increases and things get complicated because deputy inspector Gutiérrez turns up at the house.

The cast that is bringing this comedy to life is formed by the members of the association Tatrum, which staged the work Bar Manolo this season: José Manuel Sosa, Yésica Rodríguez, José Luis Rubio, Pepe Damas, Olga Covadonga González, Olga Vanesa Curotto and Hugo Rodríguez.

The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) is part of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. This programme encourages interest in the hobby of theatre and the production of theatrical plays by the existing associations in Tenerife. It aims to stimulate matters such as communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity amongst members who, in turn, belong to youth collectives, cultural collectives, women's collectives, and neighbourhood groups, among others.

Its main objectives are to promote a liking for theatre among different social and cultural groups, to promote the general public's attendance to, and love of, theatrical plays, and to contribute to enriching the technical/artistic quality of amateur theatre groups and to create different work groups.

The programme includes 19 concerts and starts on 8 September.

The preferential renewal period for current subscription holders of the Sinfónica de Tenerife ended last Saturday. Tomorrow [Tuesday 30th], the Island Council is opening the period for the general public who wish to join as a subscription holder, and it is possible to do so up until 8 September, the date of the first concert of the 2023-2024 season. Your music in good hands is the slogan of this new campaign, which includes 19 concerts at the Auditorio de Tenerife, which can be fully accessed as a subscription holder for 162 Euros.

From tomorrow, the Island Board of Music is also offering the possibility of obtaining subscription status for the first ten programmes of the season for 85 Euros. Individual tickets to attend any concert can be purchased from 20 July starting at 10 Euros. There are special discounts for large families, unemployed and the audience under 30 years of age.

The proposal of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra for the next season includes 53 works by 39 composers from different eras who will be directed by 18 conductors, including five women. Each maestro will conduct a programme, except for the honorary conductor of the Sinfónica de Tenerife, Victor Pablo Pérez, who will take to the stage twice. The conductors making their debuts during this season will be Paul Daniel, Julio García Vico, Ludovic Morlot and Emilia Hoving.

As usual, the Sinfónica de Tenerife will have different national and international soloists who will perform as guests. On this occasion, the following soloists will perform for the first time: the violinists Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Bomsori Kim, the pianists Vadym Kholodenko, Martín García García, Zlata Chocieva, Yeol Eum Son, and Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, the cellists Bruno Philippe and Zlatomir Fung, Leo Rondón with the Venezuelan cuatro, the flautist Mathieu Dufour and the tenor Christian Elsner.

The information for purchasing any type of subscription can be viewed on the web pages www.sinfonicadetenerife.es and www.auditoriodetenerife.com. You can also purchase the subscriptions by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., except for public holidays and the month of August. It is also possible, with the same opening hours, to make the arrangements in person at the Auditorio de Tenerife box office.

Participation in proposals is double that of last year

In the season that has just ended, the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife benefitted 29,875 people. This figure means an increase of 118 percent compared to that recorded last year in terms of participation in the activities carried out by this project which involves the departments of Culture and Education of the Island Council of Tenerife. Shows for schools and social centres, classroom performances, teaching guides, educational resources, mediation actions and guided visits adapted to the levels or syllabus structured the proposal, which took place from October 2022 to June 2023.

The educational concerts and shows offered to the schools and social centres on the island which take place at the Auditorio de Tenerife amounted to a total of 22 performances, attaining 13,492 attendees. They notably include the performances of the Symphony Orchestra (Al son de Cervantes for Nursey, The firebird for Primary and Pictures at an exhibition for Secondary school pupils), and the family title that the Opera of Tenerife programmes each year (The little sweep, by Benjamin Britten).

The Teatro en la Escuela (Theatre at School) programme consists of a public call for entries for theatre and dance companies, and musical groups. 14 Shows were included this year, divided according to educational level, which were offered this year to schools and social centres on the island in order for them to make applications to host one of them in their classrooms. In total, 189 performances took place in 116 centres across 26 municipalities on the island, which were enjoyed by 14,789 spectators.

The Escuelas de Teatro (Theatre Schools) programme spread around 11 municipalities on the island, in 27 groups divided according to age, providing classes to a total of 255 pupils. On the other hand, Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre), which promotes this art among cultural associations, brought together 114 participants from the ten groups registered.

Under the slogan Sensación sentida (A felt sense), Danza en Comunidad (Dance in the Community) implemented three programmes: Training of trainers for Creation and Wellbeing, Research residencies and Transversal rapporteur. The programme worked with seven groups (those enrolled in Training of Trainers, the groups of the secondary schools IES Puntalarga and IES Las Galletas, the Higher Conservatoire of Music, Doctors of the World, the Orobal Parents’ Association and the Penitentiary Facility), which had 310 participants.

This season marked the launch of the educational guided visits, a cross-disciplinary educational activity that consists of carrying out a process of training and informing the public during school hours. It is meant for all levels and aims to give rise to autonomous and critical students. It involves a guided visit to the building and a series of workshops adapted to the different educational levels in a specific classroom for this audience, which reached 925 pupils.

Mediation activities were also carried out with pupils from the island and with groups such as the ONCE Foundation. Likewise, the second Teaching communication for music workshop took place, with twenty people enrolled, it featured Mikel Cañada and included the roundtable discussion ¿Las barreras son franqueables? (Is it possible to overcome barriers?) with representatives from public, private, and artistic entities.

The department is associated with RESEO European Network for Opera, Dance and Music Education and the Spanish Network of Organisers of Educational Concerts (ROCE), which it is an active part of.

The Educational and Social Department of the Auditorio de Tenerife aims to bring the arts and creative processes to all citizens, with a particular focus on school pupils and people at risk of social exclusion. One of its objectives is to nurture the relationship between artistic and cultural activities with the way in which they are conveyed to society and to encourage space for building a relationship between art and people. Its main idea is for art to make an unquestionable contribution to social wellbeing, the recognition of individual and collective identity, as well as training and the use of critical thinking needed for mature democratic social coexistence.

Auditorio de Tenerife recibe del 3 al 16 de julio de 2023 la residencia artística Solala de Amalia Fernández, del Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía, que cuenta con el patrocinio del Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural del Gobierno de Canarias. La muestra final tendrá lugar el domingo 16 de julio a las 19:30 horas en la Sala Castillo del Auditorio de Tenerife. 

Solala es el título de un proyecto que dará lugar a una serie de  piezas de corta duración, hechas para ser vistas una detrás de otra,  creadas e interpretadas por Amalia Fernández.  El proceso creativo parte de una lista de deseos. ¿Quién no ha hecho alguna vez una lista de deseos? Un inventario de propósitos para el nuevo curso, una carta a los Reyes Magos, una promesa a la Virgen de la cueva... El deseo es el motor de la acción. Es el presente que echa a andar hacia el futuro.

Este proyecto (aunque nadie lo dirá, porque no es lo que parece) trata sobre el paso del tiempo en distintos sentidos:

• El tiempo inevitable que se tarda en logar llevar algo a término: la espera, la constancia, la paciencia, la tarea pequeña de cada día y su acumulación.
• El tiempo de vida del que dispone cada ser humano. El tiempo de los humanos que va pasando de cuerpo en cuerpo infinitamente. La familia: los progenitores.
• El tiempo del reloj frente al tiempo como percepción subjetiva de los sentidos. El minuto que se hace eterno y la semana de vacaciones que pasa volando. El tiempo mientras bailamos. El tiempo contigo y el tiempo sin ti. ¿Qué hora es?
• El tiempo histórico y cíclico.
• El tiempo que se comparte con los otros.

Lo que posiblemente digan es que Solala es hacer ganchillo, crear relatos a partir de fotos de familia, reflexionar sobre Cuba, cantar todos juntos  y alguna cosa más.

Amalia Fernández (Granada, 1970)

Formada en danza clásica en el Real Conservatorio de Sevilla y en danza contemporánea con distintas coreógrafas como Ana Buitrago, Francesc Bravo, Olga Mesa, Mónica Valenciano y otras.

Su trayectoria profesional ha ido de la interpretación (como miembro de la Cia. “El Bailadero-Mónica Valenciano”, durante 10 años) a la creación independiente a partir del 2005. Es autora, directora e intérprete de las piezas  Matrioshka, Kratimosha, En Construcción, El resistente y delicado hilo musical, Expografía,  Monstruos Musicales y Neti Neti, entre otras. También crea otras piezas en colaboración con las artistas Juan Domínguez, Nilo Gallego, Sonia Gómez y Cuqui Jerez.

Como docente ha colaborado con el Master de Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, con el Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, con el Proyecto LOVA, con el museo Reina Sofia y un largo etc.

The tenor was to perform in an opera gala dedicated to Verdi

According to the singer's agency, Celso Albelo will not participate during the season 2023-2024 of Opera de Tenerife. The tenor was due to perform at the Verdi Singular Operagala next June, as it was announced on 12 April during the presentation of the opera season in Auditorio de Tenerife.

The Auditorio de Tenerife regrets the absence of the tenor. The representatives of the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council, Enrique Arriaga and Alejandro Krawietz, deputy councillor and deputy island director of Culture, respectively, expressed their pleasure at the participation of Celso Albelo in the Symphony Hall during the presentation of the season. Opera de Tenerife is currently negotiating a new programme for the 22 June.

This atypical concert and ˊperformanceˊ, with seven performers who will play one hundred instruments and objects, takes place on Saturday

The Auditorio de Tenerife is offering Interpretando a Tom Waits (Performing Tom Waits), a show by the Canadian company L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres (the orchestra of men-orchestra) in the form of a tribute-performance to the North American musician. The atypical staging of this concert takes place on Saturday [24], at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife.

With the colourful repertoire of the musical icon Tom Waits (California, 1949), L’orchestre d'hommes-orchestres offers an experience that looks more like a carnival show or a musical circus than a mere concert. With almost 100 objects and invented instruments, the seven frenetic multi-instrumentalists perform facing one another and on top of one another, exchanging instruments and voices. The leitmotif stems from the personality of the well-known folk singer and composer.

This creation by L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres includes a text and music by Tom Waits, Chuck E. Weiss, and Kathleen Waits-Brennan. With a lighting concept by Marc Tétreault and operated by Philippe Lessard-Drolet, Frédéric Auger is the sound engineer and technical director for the project. The performers who will bring this performative concert to life are Bruno Bouchard, Gabrielle Bouthillier, Jasmin Cloutier, Simon Elmaleh, Patrick Ouellet, Liette Remon, and Nadine Lizotte.

In 2002, when L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres was founded in the city of Quebec, Canada, the members of the group had no idea that they were creating a springboard for performing arts. Unclassifiable and bordering on several artistic disciplines, the company has created twenty original productions for the stage and public spaces, notably including Shattered Cabaret, Tintamarre Caravane, Les Palais, and this Performing Tom Waits.

Invited to perform on the main stages in both Quebec and abroad, L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres has presented productions in over 80 cities in twenty countries in Europe, America, and Oceania. In 2013 it received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize by Robert Lepage and in 2015, the City of Quebec prize.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The programme with pieces by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky will also mark the debut of the cellist Kian Soltani as the guest soloist.

Hugh Wolff is making his debut in charge of the Sinfónica de Tenerife to conduct the closing concert of the season 2022-23, which includes a programme with pieces by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. It will also mark the debut of the cellist Kian Soltani as the guest soloist of the orchestra. This musical evening takes place in the Auditorio de Tenerife this Friday [23rd] at 7:30 p.m.

The event will begin with the Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107, by Dmitri Shostakovich, premiered by Rostropovich in 1959, critics consider it to be the archetype concerto of the 20^th century, in which he presents the soloist instrument distanced from the concept of nineteenth-century beauty. Four catchy notes are used to create the entire concerto, this formula shows the sarcastic side of the composer, who thus caricatures the political views of his country.

After the interlude, there will be a performance of Symphony No. 6 in B minor, the “Pathétique Symphony” by Tchaikovsky. This piece was devised as a kind of musical autobiography which reflects everything from the composer’s happiest days, expressed in the frenetic Allegro molto vivace of the second movement; to his particular farewell letter with the Adagio lamentoso of the fourth movement.

Hugh Wolff began his professional career as an assistant conductor to Rostropovich in the National Symphony Orchestra in 1979. He has also been the lead conductor of different groups such as the Belgian National Orchestra, the HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which he was also musical director. He also carried out this latter professional role at the Grant Park Music Festival Chicago and at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

Wolff has conducted the main American orchestras, such as the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. He has also had a presence at different summer festivals such as those of Aspen, Ravinia, and Tanglewood. In Europe, he regularly conducts the Czech Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the London Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

His recognitions notably include the “Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras” of the Boston New England Conservatory, which enabled him to lead four orchestras and teach the art of orchestra conducting to postgraduate students.

Kian Soltani began playing the cello at the age of four. Aged 12 he began his studies at the Basel Music Academy, and in 2014 he obtained a scholarship from the Anne Sophie Mutter Foundation. Soltani made his debut with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Czech Philharmonic, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the 2021/22 season. In addition to participating with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, he offers concerts with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, as well as with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Vienna Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

His most recent recognitions notably include first place at the 2013 International Cello Competition in Helsinki and the Leonard Bernstein Award in Germany in 2017. He also received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award.

As a chamber musician, Kian Soltani has played at the Carnegie Hall in New York, and at the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals, as well as at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

ATADEM, the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, is once again offering a free talk beforehand for members and the general public on the characteristics of the two pieces that make up this musical programme. On this occasion, Tania Marrero will be in charge of this event at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida, located in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife "Adán Martín".

The tickets for this last concert of the season can be purchased until the day of the event on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office, and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.