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Likewise, the marimba player Conrado Moya from Alicante is presenting on Wednesday at FMUC a programme entitled ˊEvocaciones al pasadoˊ

This week the Auditorio de Tenerife is hosting the programme of the Tenerife Contemporary Music Festival (FMUC), which will offer a cultural exchange between the island and Mississippi in the form of several concerts, included in an edition that involves the collaboration of the MAPFRE Canaries Foundation, the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Canaries, the Professional Conservatoire of Music and the University of Southern Mississippi. Also, on Wednesday [31] the marimba player Conrado Moya from Alicante is starring in the show Evocaciones al pasado.

The Percussion departments of the University of Southern Mississippi and the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Canaries, led by professors John Wooton and Paco Díaz, respectively, have carried out a cultural exchange project that started on American soil and it will bear its fruits this week at FMUC in the form of two concerts: John Wooton and friends this Thursday [1] and Bocetos de New Orleans this Friday [2], which includes a morning teaching session for pupils from several schools on the island.

The American musician and teacher John Wooton currently holds the role of director of Percussion Studies at this North American university.  He holds a PhD in musical arts and has published his book The Drummer's Rudimental Reference Book (1992), and a DVD entitled Dr Throwdown's Rudimental Remedies (2010) plus more than ten musical works for percussion with Row-Loff Productions.

The programme of John Wooton and Friends is comprised of works by Yip Harburg, Andy Narell, Chick Corea, Astor Piazzolla, Roberto Palomeque, Nathan Sanders and Wooton himself, who will be accompanied on stage by the percussionists Paco Díaz, Francis Hernández and Verónica Cagigao. Also, the two key groups in this project will participate the Percussion Group of the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Canary Islands and the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Southern Mississippi.

The other resulting concert is a musical exchange between Mississippi and Tenerife entitled Bocetos de New Orleans, the new work by the Canarian composer Francis Hernández. Multiculturalism is the concept that gives rise to this concert, uniting students from different continents, with different cultures and generating cooperation between two educational institutions that are very far from one another in a single concert, written expressly for this occasion and performed in both Mississippi and Tenerife. What also stands out in this composition is improvisation, a crucial element in jazz and which is present in each of the pieces of this programme on a constant basis.

Likewise, and for the first time at FMUC, the steel drums and steel pan instruments will be used. Like the other elements in this concert, they are also part of that merging of cultures, contributing not only from a visual perspective but also in terms of sound.  Francis Hernández himself will conduct the concert, which will involve the percussionists Paco Díaz, John Wooton, Miguel Pérez and Alberto Bercal, the double bassist Ruimán Martín, the Percussion Group of the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Canary Islands and the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Southern Mississippi.

The programming of FMUC, directed by Paco Díaz, includes the concert Evocaciones al pasado by Conrado Moya this Wednesday [31], with works by Emmanuel Séjourné, Eric Sammut, Alexander Scriabin, Pius Cheung, Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska, Arkadiusz Katny, Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska and Minuro Miki. Moya works intensely as a marimba soloist around the world, playing in performances and alongside orchestras, choirs and symphony bands. He also participates in important events and, in the field of chamber music, he has been an integral part of duos, ensembles and groups. Moya is an artist who represents the American brand Marimba One, with which he has also developed his own line of mallets. The concert will also feature the musicians Verónica Cagigao, Andrea Domínguez and Carlos Castañeda.

The three concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium's Chamber Hall. 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. Each of the tickets for these concerts can be purchased for 10 Euros. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

This Sunday's concert feature El Salvador, San Sebastián, and Igueste de Candelaria bands

The Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife will be the venue this Sunday [28th], at 11:30 a.m., for a new concert of the Primavera Musical cycle. On this occasion, the wind bands Agrupación Musical El Salvador (La Matanza), the Asociación Cultural San Sebastián (Tejina, La Laguna), and the Agrupación Musical Nueva Banda from Igueste de Candelaria are playing.

The band from La Matanza was founded in 1850 and will perform under the direction of Ismael Jesús Brajín González. They will offer a repertoire that starts with Acentejo, by José Luis Peiró, followed by Fate of the Gods, by Steve Reinek. They will conclude with Malagueña, by Agrícola Álvarez, with arrangements by Pedro Izquierdo and Sergio Rodríguez. Pedro Izquierdo will perform as a soloist on this piece.

The cultural association Asociación Cultural San Sebastián was founded in 1927, and its music band is presented in this new edition of Primavera Musical with a programme under the direction of Raiko Cruz González. They will start with the pasodoble Las Arenas, by Manuel Morales Martínez, continue with Eternal Vibrations, by Saül Gómez Soler, and the symphonic poem Coliseum, by Hugo Chinesta.

Luis Porfirio Torres Oliva will lead this new band of Igueste de Candelaria during the performance at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The three pieces Havana Blues, by Chico O'Farrill, Café sin leche, by Claudio Roditi, and La Rebelión, by Joe Arroyo, will close the musical day at the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The Primavera Musical cycle started in 2005 as an initiative of the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council. This activity aims to promote and disseminate the work done by the wind bands throughout the year in different municipalities. Thus, all 36 ensembles that make up the federation offer a concert in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. Twenty-four bands have already taken part in this year's festival, which began in March.

An event with composers and five concerts, one of which is educational, comprise the programming of the next week

The Auditorio de Tenerife hosts six events of the Tenerife Contemporary Music Festival FMUC next week. An event with composers and five concerts, one of which is educational, comprise the programming of this proposal directed by Paco Díaz. Percussion music and cultural exchange start in this edition, which involves the collaboration of the Mapfre Canarias Foundation, the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canary Islands, the Professional Conservatoire of Music and the University of Southern Mississippi.

The first event of this festival takes place on Monday [29th] at 6.00 p.m. in the Puerto Hall with a gathering of composers. Moderated by fellow musical creator Francis Hernández, several composers will participate: Fernando Ortí, Eduardo Rojo, Gustavo Trujillo, Nino Díaz and John Wooton. Entry is free until full capacity is reached.

At 7:30 p.m. the second part of the Monday will begin with  a concert at the Chamber Hall and the works of the composers who participated in the first activity. The five percussionists that will participate are Paco Díaz, Verónica Cagigao, Andrea Domínguez, Miguel Pérez, Alberto Bercal. The Percussion Group of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canary Islands will also perform.

On Wednesday [31st], the marimba player Conrado Moya will offer the concert Evocaciones al pasado, with works by Emmanuel Séjourné, Eric Sammut, Alexander Scriabin, Pius Cheung, Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska, Arkadiusz Katny, Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska and Minuro Miki. Conrado Moya works intensely as a marimba soloist around the world, playing in performances and alongside orchestras, choirs and symphonic groups. He also participates in important events, and, within the field of chamber music, he has been a member of duos, ensembles and groups. In addition to Conrado Moya, the musicians Verónica Cagigao, Andrea Domínguez and Carlos Castañeda will participate during the concert.

The American musician and teacher John Wooton heads up the concert of John Wooton and friends, which will take place on Thursday [1st] at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall. The programme is formed by works by Yip Harburg, Andy Narell, Chick Corea, Astor Piazzolla, Roberto Palomeque, Nathan Sanders and John Wooton himself. The doctor in musical arts will be accompanied on stage by the percussionists Paco Díaz, Francis Hernández y Verónica Cagigao, and two ensembles: Percussion Group of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canary Islands and the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Southern Mississippi.

The programme closes with a musical exchange project between Mississippi and Tenerife with Bocetos de New Orleans, by Francis Hernández. The debut will be on Friday [2nd] morning with an educational session with students from schools who have studied the works of the Canarian composer beforehand. In the evening, at 7:30 p.m., the Chamber Hall is hosting the concert that is open to the public.

The Percussion Department of the University of Southern Mississippi and the Percussion Department of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries, led by two professors John Wooton and Paco Díaz, respectively, are presenting this project, which includes different music linked to Canarian culture and the musical contribution that emerged from the hub of New Orleans. Francis Hernández will conduct the concert, which will involve the percussionists Paco Díaz, John Wooton, Miguel Pérez and Alberto Bercal, the double bass Ruimán Martín, the Percussion Group of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries and the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Southern Mississippi.

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. Tickets for the concerts are priced at €10. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

La vocalista, hija del conocido tenor canario, y su banda harán sonar los temas de ˊAlquimia‘ este sábado en la Sala de Cámara

El Auditorio de Tenerife ofrece para este sábado [día 27], a las 19:30 horas en la Sala de Cámara, un concierto de Patricia Kraus. La cantante y compositora de jazz presenta su nuevo álbum, Alquimia, en el que la también productora da un giro hacia lo emocional. Las entradas, a un precio general de 15 euros, ya están a la venta. Hay disponibles descuentos para menores de 30 años, estudiantes, desempleados y familias numerosas.

Patricia Kraus, uno de los valores más sólidos en el panorama de la música independiente, el neosoul y el vocal jazz, estará acompañada en el escenario por Gherardo Alessio Catanzaro al piano, Yrvis Arcilio Mendez Raymond al contrabajo, Antonio Álvarez Bordoy a la batería e Ignacio Ibaibarriaga Araquistain al saxofón.

En este nuevo trabajo, Alquimia, se presenta una sólida fusión que navega entre el neosoul y el funk, expandiendo su vitalidad a través del jazz y R&B. A lo largo del álbum destaca su voz nostálgica, sugerente y cálida, cargada de matices y con una sonoridad claramente inspirada en influencias que van desde Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Sara Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald o Speranza Spalding, entre otros. En Alquimia se pueden encontrar colaboraciones tan notables como Zenet en Vida o Carmen París en Luz.

Sugerir o inventar paisajes creando espacios donde se hermanan diferentes estilos musicales es el cruce de caminos musical en donde la voz de Patricia Kraus se erige en clara diferencia. Dotada de un instrumento natural singular, la vocalista y compositora española nacida en Milán y criada en Madrid en el seno de un ambiente familiar musical, junto a su padre, el tenor canario Alfredo Kraus, desarrolla de una manera casi innata y un gusto ecléctico por la música más allá de cualquier género y corsé. Su manera de cantar es libre y desprendida de toda etiqueta, utilizando su voz para crear una paleta de colores musicales absolutamente personal.

Durante su carrera ha disfrutado de menciones destacadas en festivales internacionales, como Canarias Jazz & Más, Womad, FIB, Festival Internacional de Jazz de Madrid, Encuentro de las Américas en Los Ángeles, Maspalomas Soul Festival, Tampere Hall en Finlandia, Jazz Plaza Cuba y FeminaJazz, entre otros. Además, fue la representante de España en Eurovisión en 1987 con el tema No estás solo.

Las entradas se pueden adquirir en la página web www.auditoriodetenerife.com, en la taquilla de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas y de forma telefónica llamando al 902 317 327 en el mismo horario.

La formación, con más de tres décadas de trayectoria, pasea entre el clasicismo y el romanticismo con Haydn, Beethoven y Smetana

El Auditorio de Tenerife programa para este jueves [día 25] a las 19:30 horas en la Sala de Cámara el programa De Viena a Praga, del Guarneri Trio Prague. En este paseo musical por el clasicismo vienés y el romanticismo checo, la formación, con más de treinta años de trayectoria, interpretará obras de Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven y Bedřich Smetana. Las entradas están a la venta con un precio general de 15 euros y hay disponibles descuentos para menores de 30 años, estudiantes, desempleados y familias numerosas.

Guarneri Trio Prague es considerado uno de los máximos exponentes de la música de cámara, que mantiene su frescura y perfecta forma. Sus miembros son Čeněk Pavlík al violín, Marek Jerie al violonchelo y Ivan Klánský al piano. El programa comenzará con el Trío para piano n.39 en Sol mayor de Haydn y el Trío para piano en Re mayor, op. 70 n.1, Ghost, de Beethoven. Tras la pausa, interpretarán el Trío para piano en Sol menor, op. 15 de Smetana.

Desde su fundación en 1986, ha sido uno de los mejores tríos de piano clásico. Sus primeros éxitos han llamado la atención de la prensa musical internacional, que lo ubica entre los conjuntos de música de cámara líderes precisamente por su interacción de primera clase, calidad de sonido excepcional y alto virtuosismo técnico. La combinación única del conjunto de madurez artística y expresividad.

Guarneri Trio Prague participa en muchos festivales internacionales de música e importantes centros musicales; invitados a realizar conciertos en una extensa gira de conciertos por Europa, Canadá, Australia, América del Norte y del Sur y Japón. Guarneri Trio Prague ha realizado numerosas grabaciones y grabaciones de conciertos para la BBC, Radio France, ORF, DRS 2, GDR, SWR, Czech Radio, etc.

En los últimos años, ha construido repertorio amplio, que incluye no solo grandes nombres y obras conocidas, sino también un testimonio de esfuerzos innovadores incansables y persistentes. Entre su repertorio hay autores contemporáneos como Luboš Fišer, Aleš Březina o el suizo Thüring Bräm, así como compositores checos de la época de los clásicos vieneses, Hugo Voříšek y Antonín Rejch.

Las entradas se pueden adquirir en la página web www.auditoriodetenerife.com, en la taquilla de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas y de forma telefónica llamando al 902 317 327 en el mismo horario.

El concierto de este viernes, que dirige Anu Tali, incluye piezas de Copland y Elgar

La Sinfónica de Tenerife afronta este viernes [día 26], a partir de las 19:30 horas, un nuevo concierto en el Auditorio de Tenerife en el que destaca la interpretación por primera vez de la obra Aconcagua, de Astor Piazzolla, una pieza en la que Ksenija Sidorova estará como solista con el bandoneón. El programa, que será dirigido por Anu Tali, incluye temas de Aaron Copland y Edward Elgar.

Apalachian Spring, de Aaron Copland, abrirá la velada del Viernes. Se trata de un encargo, fechado en 1943, de la bailarina y coreógrafa Martha Graham del Festival de la Fundación Elizabeth Sprague Collidge. Este ballet, arreglado como suite orquestal, desarrolla los avatares de una fiesta de primavera de los pioneros norteamericanos en la década de 1800 después de construir una nueva granja en Pensilvania.

El concierto para orquesta y bandeón, de Astor Piazzolla, fue denominado Aconcagua por el editor Aldo Pagani, quien la bautizó así por considerarla el “pico más alto” de la escritura musical de maestro argentino. Este concierto, estrenado en 1979, muestra el esfuerzo por mostrar el bandoneón como solista en el contexto sinfónico, uniendo así, los ámbitos populares y académicos.

Ya tras el descanso, será turno para Variaciones Enigma, op. 36 de Edward Elgar; un misterioso título que, desde su estreno en 1899, nadie ha podido descifrar y sobre el que su propio autor, dijo que, nunca daría la solución. Se trata de catorce variaciones musicales en las que el compositor retrata a sus amigos y a sus relaciones sociales más cercanas.

Anu Tali, que se estrena en la temporada de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, ha sido directora musical de la Orquesta Sarasota de Florida y dirige regularmente a orquestas de todo el mundo como la New Japan Philharmonic y la Filarmónica de Tokio, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Sueca, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen o la Ensemble Modern.

En la presente temporada, además de participar en la nueva producción de El Barbero de Sevilla de Rossini en la Staatsoper Unter den Linden de Berlín y su debut con la Sinfónica de Tenerife, ha firmado diferentes compromisos con la Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Orchestre National d’île de France o su regreso a la Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

En el ámbito operístico, Tali ha cosechado grandes éxitos con la producción de Carmen en la Ópera Estatal de Magdeburgo y ha sido invitada a dirigir a la Freiburger Barockorchester en una producción de Telemaco de Gluck en el Schwetzingen Festival y Theater Basel. También destaca su dirección semiescenificada de Songs of Wars I Have Seen de Goebbels con conjuntos como London Sinfonietta en el Lincoln Center, Southbank Centre y en Saint Paul, Minnesota, Seattle y Barcelona. En 2021, hizo historia al ser la primera mujer en dirigir una ópera en el Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, en la producción de Carmen firmada por Calixto Bieito.

Ksenija Sidorova, que tocará el bandoneón en el Auditorio de Tenerife, fue animada por su abuela a tocar el acordeón, adentrándose en la tradición popular de este instrumento de su ciudad natal de Riga. A los seis años, comenzó a recibir clases de Marija Gasele y con el fin de profundizar en el repertorio clásico y contemporáneo, se desplazó a Londres para ser estudiante de grado y posgrado en la Royal Academy of Music, donde recibió diversos premios y tuvo como profesor a Owen Murray.

El repertorio de Sidorova abarca desde Bach a Piazzolla, de Efrem Podgaits a Václav Trojan, Erkki-Sven Tüür y George Bizet, además de nuevos conciertos para acordeón compuestos especialmente para ella y diversos proyectos de cámara. Ksenija ha trabajado con diferentes orquestas internacionales como la Filarmónica de Munich, Tonhalle Orchester-Zurich, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Orquesta Nacional de Bélgica, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, MDRSinfonieorchester, Atlanta Symphony, Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rudfunks, NHK Symphony o la Filarmónica de Hong Kong, entre otras.

La Asociación Tinerfeña de Amigos de la Música, ATADEM, ofrecerá una charla previa de carácter gratuita para socios y público en general sobre las características de las piezas que componen Aconcagua. Leandro Martín será el encargado de impartirla a partir de las 18:30 horas en la Sala Avenida, ubicada en el hall del Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín”.

Las entradas para este nuevo concierto podrán adquirirse hasta el mismo día del concierto, a través de la página web www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, en la taquilla del Auditorio de Tenerife o de forma teléfonica en el 902 317 327, de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas, y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas.

Each group performs three pieces on a new date of the ‘Primavera Musical’ cycle.

The wind bands from Adeje, La Victoria, and Fasnia are appearing this Sunday [21st] at 11:30 a.m. in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife to offer a concert. This activity is part of the Primavera Musical cycle, which started in 2005 as an initiative of the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

The group from the Board of Music of the Historic Town of Adeje, conducted by Víctor Herrera González, starts its repertoire with the pasodoble Suspiros de España, followed by the fantasy for band Oregon, by Jacob de Haan, and will conclude with another pasodoble, Las Arenas, by Manuel Morales Martínez.

Humberto García Afonso will be the conductor of the wind band Agrupación Musical La Victoria, who will perform at the Auditorio de Tenerife a programme which includes Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, arranged by Willy Hautvast, and concludes with the Christian march Aralk, by Francisco Valor Llorens.

The band Agrupación Musical Fasnia will close this new event of the cycle organised by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música'. Mateu Azzaro González Rodríguez is the director of this group, which will perform in the Chamber Halls the pieces Tercio de Quites, by Rafael Talens Pelló, Pop español en concierto, by Manuel Castrejón Navarro, and Lady Gaga Dance Mix, by Ted Ricketts.

Icelanders Bára Gísladóttir on double bass and Skúli Sverrisson on electric bass will give a performance preceded by a showcase.

The Auditorio de Tenerife hosts on Saturday [20th], at 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall, a double programme for NUMAcircuit, the festival of experimentation, creation, and new forms of artistic expression in the Canary Islands. This is a concert by the double bassist Bára Gísladóttir and Skúli Sverrisson on electric bass, preceded by a performance by the artistic residency Unmute + Strings.

Bára Gísladóttir is an Icelandic composer and double bass player residing in Copenhagen, whose works are based on reflections about the approach and concept of sounds as a living being. Her music has been performed by groups and orchestras such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. She has been nominated for several awards: Carl, Kraumur Music Awards, Nordic Council Music Prize, Nordic Music Prize, Icelandic Music Awards, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. She is an active artist and regularly performs her own music, solo or alongside her long-time collaborator, Skúli Sverrisson.

In turn, Sverrisson is an Icelandic composer and bass player, as well as a musical and artistic director. He also plays the dobro, double bass, and charango. He has worked with major musicians and composers, such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jóhann Jóhannsson…  Sverrisson has also worked as a duo with Anthony Burr and other major artists. One of his solo projects, Sería, was named Best Album of the Year by the Icelandic Music Awards. He has also featured on more than one hundred recordings and has performed, among others, with Jim Black and Chris Speed.

Both artists have an essencially unique connection that manages to masterfully blend drastically different sounds. Their performance is immensely physical and intense, in their hands the instruments are contorted, filling the room with a sound that invites people to let themselves go and explore new sensations of the Icelandic essence, the land of fire and ice.

Unmute + Strings is a performance show that takes spectators on a sound and visual journey into the depths of an ancestral ritual that is reminiscent of the pagan rites that exist in a large number of the world’s ancient cultures. It is led by Yexza Lara with a concept and aesthetic that connects, in terms of staging and music, with black metal and noise.

Yexza Lara (vocals), Pablo Selnik (flute), and Nasim Lopez-Palacios (prepared drums) are staging, from tomorrow [Wednesday 17] and up until the day of the concert, a residency with a string quartet of students from the Conservatoire of Tenerife, formed by Pablo Ramos Ferrer (violin), Mariana Yarelis Velásquez Urbina (violin), Blandina Imelda Dimande (viola) and Adasat Santana Suárez (double bass). Together they will produce arrangements and dynamics inspired by the creation of seemingly chaotic masses of sound from different sources of inspiration from the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Ianis Xenakis, Keiji Haino, and Lingua Ignota, among others. There will be an open session on Friday [19th] at 6:00 p.m. in the Castillo Hall of the Auditorio with free entry until the full capacity is reached.

This year the 15^th edition of NUMAcircuit takes place, a festival of experimentation, creation, and new forms of artistic expression in the Canary Islands. Maintaining the main aim of providing space and audience to artists who engage in communicating with contemporary or experimental languages, encouraging the emergence of projects and collaborations between artists through its own production activities, and also invigorating the regional and national circuit of avant-garde art. The festival offers interdisciplinary and itinerant programming throughout May that keeps the Auditorio de Tenerife as one of its programme spaces.

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 concert takes place on Saturday [20th] at 12:00 noon

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jhoanna Sierralta, is tackling the third educational proposal of the season this week, which revolves around the work Pictures at an Exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky, with a script and narration by Ana Hernández Sanchiz. The family concert will be on Saturday [20th], at 12:00 noon, and the tickets priced at five Euros can be purchased up until the day of the concert, through the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es and at the box office of the Auditorio de Tenerife.

As usual, the educational offer will get underway with the proposal for pupils during the week, with the expected attendance of three thousand people from 34 schools in 17 municipalities. The sessions will be from Wednesday [17th] to Friday [19th], at 11:00 a.m., and the following schools have confirmed their attendance: Santo Domingo (Güímar), Pureza La Cuesta (La Laguna) and Nazaret (Los Realejos), Liceo Francés Internacional de Tenerife, Escuelas Pías and CIFP Virgen de Candelaria (Santa Cruz), CEO Guajara (Fasnia) and CPEIPS Acaymo Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (La Laguna).

The list of attendees is completed with pupils from several secondary schools: IES El Médano (Granadilla), Tacoronte, El Tanque, Mencey Acaymo (Güímar), Barranco Las Lajas (Tacoronte), San Andrés (Santa Cruz), Punta Larga (Candelaria), Villalba Hervás (La Orotava), La Laboral, Marina Cebrián, Canarias and Antonio González González, Padre Anchieta, Valle de Guerra and San Matías (La Laguna), El Galeón (Adeje).

The school concerts and the family concert will be accompanied by screenings that have been produced by pupils who have come to the Auditorium and have worked beforehand with the teaching guide provided by the Island Board of Music with the collaboration of the Educational and Social Department of the Auditorium of Tenerife.

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed this work for piano in 1839 with the title Suite Hartmann, as it is a collection of 15 pieces inspired by the posthumous exhibition of the work of the artist and architect Victor Hartmann, a friend of the Russian composer. The work was subsequently orchestrated by other composers, including Maurice Ravel, whose version is the most performed and well-known.

The work, a descriptive suite, finds unity between the different pieces through the theme known as Promenade, which is heard at the start of the piece and another three subsequent times, intercalated between pictures although always in a varied way. The theme precisely shows the route of the visitor at the exhibition moving from one picture to the next.

The event takes place in the Chamber Hall at 11:30 a.m., as part of the Primavera Musical cycle.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers this Sunday [14th], at 11:30 a.m. in the Chamber Hall, a concert by the music bands Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Amigos del Arte of San Andrés and San Marcos Evangelista, from the municipalities of Buenavista, Santa Cruz, and Tegueste, respectively. This activity is part of the Primavera Musical cycle, which started in 2005 as an initiative of the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

José Humberto Martín de Armas leads the band 'Agrupación Musical Nuestra Señora de los Remedios', a group founded in Buenavista in 1929, to offer a repertoire that begins with the pasodoble Recordando a un amigo, by Paulino Martí, and continues with James Horner's The mask of Zorro, arranged by Ton van Grevenbroek, followed by Louis Armstrong’s legend, by Giancarlo Gazzani, and El baile de Luis Alonso, by Gerónimo Giménez.

Founded in 1967, the band 'Amigos del Arte de San Andrés' is preparing a new concert with the Primavera Musical cycle. Under the direction of Juan Antonio Domínguez Martín, the performance includes three works: Tierra Canaria, by Cabrera Santamaría; Shalom, by Philip Spark, and the entr’acte from the zarzuela La pícara molinera, by Pablo Luna.

The closing of this eighth day of the Primavera Musical 2023 cycle will be performed by the Agrupación Musical San Marcos Evangelista, from Tegueste, conducted by Ismael Jesús Brajín González, who will offer Suspiros de España, by Antonio Álvarez Alonso, Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera, arranged by Johan de Meij, and Pixar Movie Magic, with arrangements by Michael Brown.

The staging of this play from the Amateur Theatre programme will take place tomorrow at the Association Centre 'Sociedad Icodense'.

The Association Centre 'Sociedad Icodense' will be the stage where tomorrow [Friday 12th] the members of the Tatrum theatre association will perform once again the play Bar Manolo, as part of the programme of the Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) of Auditorio de Tenerife. The event will take place at 8.00 p.m. The entry is free until the full capacity is reached. The play was created by Jean Pierre Martínez and is directed by Irene Pérez. The theatre group provides the costumes and stage design of this show.

Bar Manolo is a popular establishment located just opposite the cemetery. Manolo, the owner, is a fan of crosswords and drinking. He is accompanied by Conchi, who is responsible for cleaning and cooking. During the show, a wide variety of characters will come to the bar, which will be the setting of forbidden love, vices, complicities, and madness. One day, things get out of control due to the death of an acquaintance and an accident that includes a coffin, an old woman whose memory is failing and a lottery number.

Nine performers from the Tatrum theatre association bring this proposal to life in Icod de los Vinos. José Manuel Sosa will be Manolo, the bar owner, while Yesica Rodríguez will be Conchi, the cook. Hugo Rodríguez will play Carlos the teacher and Mariana Rodríguez will be Silvia, mother of Leticia, who will be in the role of Yolanda Peña. Luisa and Paco are the workers at the funeral home, roles played by Olga Vanesa Curotto and José Luis Rubio, respectively. Lastly, Olgui González will become Blanca, the widow, and Pepe Damas will play Jesus, the plumber.

The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) is an initiative organised by the Educational Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. It encourages interest in the hobby of theatre and the production of theatrical plays by the existing associations on the island. It stimulates 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. Its main objectives are to promote a liking for theatre, 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 necessary in the fundamental processes for the staging of a production.

The programme, centred on the Renaissance Carlo Gesualdo, includes the world premiere of 'Verano' (Summer), by the Canarian composer José Herrero

Auditorio de Tenerife programmes for this Saturday [13th] Gesualdo: éxtasis cruel, a concert by the British Exaudi Vocal Ensemble. The programme, focusing on the Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, includes the world premiere of Verano by the Canarian José Herrero. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m., in the Chamber Hall. Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, conducted by James Weeks, features soprano Emma Tring, mezzo-soprano Jessica Gillingwater, countertenor Tom Williams, tenors Stephen Jeffes and David de Winter, and bass Jimmy Holliday.

The programme will include selections from books V and VI of Madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), the composition Recitation by Patrick Hegarty (1996) and Verano, a commission from the Auditorio de Tenerife to the Canarian composer José Herrero (1976).  The composition is based on the poem of the same name by the Canarian poet Félix Duarte Pérez, who wrote a collection dedicated to each year's season.

"This inspiring text opened up many musical possibilities for me", says Herrero, who usually composes for choral ensembles. "For me, it is an honour that a group as the Exaudi Vocal Ensemble should premiere one of my works," he says. "I wanted to reflect sensations like the calm, the summer, working in the fields, rural life, afternoons under the sun. Hence, I tried translating these evocations into music", says the composer. "My intention was to show something of ourselves, the essence of how we - the people from the Canary Islands - are ".

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble also participates the day before [Friday 12] at 7:30 p.m. in the season concert of Askenar, of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, together with the Ensemble Resilience and Juan Francisco Díaz on timpani, conducted by Juan Panisello. On this occasion, the premiere will be of Poema de sombras, para ensemble y orquesta by Rubens Askenar.

Founded by the director James Weeks and the soprano Juliet Fraser in 2002, Exaudi is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK's brightest vocal talents. The ensemble's special affinity is for the radical edges of contemporary music, at home equally with maximal complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics. The newest new music is at the heart of its repertoire, and it has given hundreds of national and world premières.

As well as performing the acknowledged greats of contemporary music, EXAUDI is particularly committed to the music of its own generation. It is also strongly involved with the emerging generation of young composers, regularly taking part in composer development schemes and residencies at home and abroad.

An enduring feature of Exaudi's programming has been the mixing of contemporary music with the music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. The group has appeared at many of the leading European and UK venues and festivals and broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and European radio stations.

The fourteen recordings on the NMC, ÆON, Métier, Winter&Winter, Mode, Confront, and HCR labels have been critically acclaimed. The album Gesualdo Madrigali (2019) received the prestigious German music critics' award Deutsche Schallplattenkritik and was considered by BBC Radio 3 as one of the Albums of the Year.

Tickets for the concert in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife are available at a single price of €15 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 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.