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El compositor tinerfeño ha sido el encargado de ‘comisariar’ el programa, donde participan los ensembles Resilience y EXAUDI Vocal

El compositor tinerfeño Rubens Askenar será el protagonista del concierto que afronta esta semana la Sinfónica de Tenerife, al estrenarse su obra Poema de sombras, para ensemble y orquesta. Además, Askenar recibió el encargo del Cabildo de Tenerife para comisionar el programa de esta nueva cita de temporada y escoger las otras dos obras que conversan con su creación en una nueva iniciativa en la que se pretende visibilizar el talento de los compositores canarios.

El concierto será dirigido por Fabián Panisello, quien además es el compositor de Aksaks, obra que abre el programa y que se completa con la Sinfonía para ocho voces y orquesta, de Luciano Berio. La Sinfónica estará acompañada por el Ensemble Resilience, Juan Francisco Díaz, y el EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. La cita será el viernes [día 12], a las 19:30 horas, en el Auditorio de Tenerife.

Aksaks es una obra de cinco movimientos cuyo nombre proviene de unos hipercúmulos de galaxias, que sirven como base de una metáfora musical para construir un hiperacorde cuyos sonidos interactúan constantemente. Esta pieza compuesta en el año 2008 será interpretada por primera vez por la Sinfónica de Tenerife.

Poema de sombras, para ensemble y orquesta se escuchará por primera vez en el Auditorio de Tenerife. Esta partitura, que ha sido encargada expresamente por el Patronato Insular de Música del Cabildo, emerge del proceso de experimentación del autor con la creación de modelos compositivos basados en la práctica multi-instrumental y el desarrollo tecnológico.

Tras el descanso, la formación afronta la Sinfonía para ocho voces y orquesta de Luciano Berio, una obra compuesta entre 1967 y 1968 por encargo de la Orquesta Filarmónica de New York para dedicársela al director Leonard Bernstein. El autor desarrolla una especie de collage musical donde imbrica diferentes recursos compositivos y nuevas sonoridades, como el órgano o el clavicémbalo eléctrico, junto a las voces, que son consideradas como un instrumento musical más.

Rubens Askenar es un compositor, investigador, profesor de composición en la Royal Academy of Music de Londres y compositor asociado de Quantum Ensemble. Su actividad creativa engloba todo tipo de géneros y formas, emergiendo desde la experimentación y creación de modelos compositivos basados en la práctica multi- instrumental y el desarrollo tecnológico.

Se gradúa con matricula de honor en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, expandiendo sus estudios de composición en el conservatorio de Santa Cecilia de Roma y máster clases de Salvatore Sciarrino. Posteriormente realiza un postgrado en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón y un Máster en composición en la Royal Academy of Music, graduándose con matrícula de honor y DipRAM, la nota más alta en la historia del Máster de composición en la Academia. Completa su doctorado y actualmente ejerce como profesor titular de composición e investigador en la Royal Academy of Music de Londres.

Askenar ha participado en prestigiosos festivales y muestras de nueva creación como el Mata Festival (New York), Gaudeamus, Muziekgebow (Amsterdam), Huddersfield (UK), reMusic (Rusia), Sampler Series (Barcelona), XI Festival de Ensembles, Jornadas de Música Española (Madrid), Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias, entre otros.

Entre sus recientes encargos destaca Bronze Clinics, ciclo de piezas para percusión solicitado por la Royal Academy of Music en celebración del 200 aniversario de la institución. In situ, composición a tiempo real, encargo del conjunto experimental Ensemble Resilence y Muziekgebow.

La obra del tinerfeño ha sido reconocida por numerosos premios de composición entre los que destacan el Priaulx Ranier Composition Prize, Alan Bush Composition Prize, Howard Hartog scholarship, Mosco Carner Award, GV Turner-Cooke Composition Award, Pullen Memorial Prize, entre otros. Además, ha recibido diferentes galardones Internacionales como en el Festival Internacional de Invierno de Brasil, el segundo premio en el concurso internacional de composición Frederic Mompou, Premios Injuve, o la mención honorífica en el concurso de composición Colegio de España de París.

Fabián Panisello fue director de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía en Madrid. Alumno de Boguslaw, fue guiado por Elliott Carter, France Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough y Luis de Pablo. Las composiciones de Panisello son interpretadas por diferentes intérpretes del ámbito internacional como Arditti Quartett, Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös y orquestas como la SWR Sinfonieorchester o la Orquesta Nacional de España. En la actualidad está en proceso de composición de la ópera Die Judith von Shimoda con un libreto basado en un texto de Bertold Brecht, que se estrenará en agosto en Bregenz.

Panisello es también fundador y director artístico del Plural Ensemble en Madrid. Tanto con su Ensemble como en su faceta de compositor, es un invitado habitual en los principales festivales de música contemporánea, como Wien Modern, Présences, Ars Musica, Ultraschall, Aspekte y Klangspuren Schwaz. Como director, ha dirigido el Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne y los Israel Contemporary Players, entre otros.

EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble es un conjunto vocal londinense creado por James Weeks y Juliet Fraser, que se ha especializado en la interpretación de nuevas composiciones. Es por ello que la formación ha participado en estrenos mundiales de Sciarrino, Rihm, Frey, Posadas, Crane, Dusapin, Ferneyhough, Pesson o Mažulis, entre otros.

El conjunto británico, que ofrecerá un recital en el Auditorio de Tenerife el sábado [día 13], se asienta en la complejidad máxima, la microtonalidad y la estética experimental, colaborando activamente con la generación emergente de jóvenes compositores. En la actualidad participa regularmente con programas de formación de nuevos compositores como Voix Nouvelles Royaumont, IRCAM Manifeste Academie y las residencias de compositores en Snape. Es conjunto residente de la Guildhall School of Music and Drama y forma parte de la iniciativa Keychange de PRS Foundation.

El Ensemble Resilience es un colectivo ecléctico de seis músicos especializados en el campo de la creación musical actual: cuatro intérpretes y dos compositores de música electrónica y diseño de sonido. Todos ellos están conectados por el interés común en enfoques diversos e innovadores de la creación musical, formatos de presentación y nuevo repertorio del siglo XXI.

En este sentido, el sexteto presentó en 2022 una colaboración con el compositor canario Rubens Askenar en el campo de la “live composition”, la cual se basó en una interfaz gráfica diseñada por Askenar que permite a múltiples compositores generar, manipular y enviar a los músicos en el escenario partituras y notaciones en tiempo real.

Desde su fundación en 2019, Resilience se ha presentado en festivales de reconocido prestigio como Gaudeamus (Utrecht), Muziekgebouw aan't IJ (Amsterdam), Dag in de Branding (La Haya), Club Fluxus Series (Utrecht), Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias, y ha realizado una residencia virtual de artistas en la Universidad de Stanford en 2020.

Como viene siendo habitual, 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 el programa musical. En esta ocasión estará impartida por el propio compositor Rubens Askenar y la cita será a las 18:30 horas en la Sala Avenida 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 propio recinto cultural del Cabildo 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.

The concert, with free admission, starts at 11:30 a.m.

This Sunday [5th], at 11:30 a.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts a new concert of the "Primavera Musical" cycle, with the performance of the wind bands San Miguel, Crearte (Tejina) and the Filarmónica of Los Realejos. The cultural activity started in 2005 as an initiative of the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and since then it has had the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

The San Miguel de Abona band will be the first to appear on stage. Conducted by Marvin Federico Martín Pérez, it begins with the pasodoble Soñad el mar, by Manuel Morales Martínez, and will continue with El Quijote, by Ferrer Ferrán and with narration by Naara Rodríguez Alayóm, followed then by Omens of love, by Hirotaka Izumi, with arrangements by Toshio Mashima.

Cristina Doro García is the director of the Asociación Cultural y Musical Crearte, from Tejina, which arrives at the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife to offer the following repertoire: El Cachoncho, by Óscar Navarro, A Froghittets´s, by Bart Picqueur, and La Cucaracha, with arrangements by Naohiro Iwai.

La Filarmónica takes part in this edition of the Primavera Musical cycle conducted by Adán Pérez García and will offer a selection of pieces from the zarzuela La Revoltosa, by Ruperto Chapí, In a Persian Market, by Albert Ketelbey, and Caballo Viejo, by Simón Díaz.

The play 'Quien pide el último, pide mejor' (Who has the last laugh?) can be enjoyed tomorrow in the cultural space of La Laguna

The Amateur Theatre programme of Auditorio de Tenerife will perform the play Quien pide el último, pide mejor (Who has the last laugh?), by the socio-cultural association Tais, tomorrow [Friday 5] at 8:30 p.m. at the Teatro Unión Tejina. The tickets, at a single price of €5, can be ordered through the usual channels of the cultural space in La Laguna.

The play begins with a lady who while tidying the attic finds a strange lamp that turns out to have powers. Then, she decides to share the discovery with her friends, who turn up both intrigued and sceptical. After some adventures, they conclude that everyone can achieve what they want if they are really determined to do so. The magic is thus within each person.

The script was written by Blanca Poza Esperón and the play is directed by Irene Pérez, with the assistant Lucas Hernández. The following performers make the story come alive: Mari Carmen Cruz, Dorys Pelayo, Sergio del Pino, Nati Álvarez, Carmen del Rosario, Monse Morales, Juan Carlos del Pino and Lucas Hernández.

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.).

Fifteen new works will be performed at this Saturday's concert.

The Auditorio de Tenerife hosts on Saturday [6th], at 6.00 p.m. in the Chamber Hall a concert by pupils of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canary Islands. Entry is free until the full capacity is reached. Fifteen new creations of these young composers will be heard for the first time, performed by the students and their teachers.

The programme begins with the two ensembles El canto de la Llanía and Anaha, two compositions by Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori that will be conducted by herself. The evening continues with Alienation, by Víctor Rodríguez Visuerte, a piece that will be performed by a clarinet, alto saxophones, trumpets, trombone, euphonium and grand piano ensemble.

Guillermo de la Torre Rivero will then present his piece Sastipen Tali for a wind trio (trumpet, alto saxophone and euphonium) with piano. The piece Dhá Trombón Dhá Euphonium by Óscar Gregorio García Moreno for wind quartet with trombones and euphonium will be the next work to be premiered.

It will then be the turn of Exi foris, a piece for a violin, viola, cello and piano quartet, and Dans la rue encore, a piece for flute, oboe and piano trio, both by Jacob González Marrero. The programme continues with Waltz nº1, a violin, viola and cello string trio by Daniel Vargas Otazo. The following work to be premiered will be Storia di un'evoluzione by Fabio D'Alberti for cello and piano.

The programme continues with the string quartet Dubitaciones, by Felipe Á. Hernández Ruiz. Another piece for string quartet, La Danza de Roco by Adrián Denis Oliva Rodríguez, will be played at the Chamber Hall, followed by the composition 0:19, a string quartet with piano by Jonay Rodríguez González. The next concert piece has also been composed by the latter composer, Estë & Lorien, a string quartet with piano.

The evening will continue with Favelas españolas by Josué Palancares Ferna, a wind quartet for trumpet, horn, trombone, as well as piano and drums. The programme will continue with La nota by David León Vera, a wind ensemble with piano and drums, which will bring this great concert of premieres of the Conservatoire to a close.

The students - and some professors of the Conservatoire - who will perform these works are all musicians, with the exception of the soprano Laura Kmetic. Mariana Yarelis Velásquez Urbina, Víctor Pestano González, Noemi Sánchez Tapia, Pablo Ramos Ferrer, Carlos Alberto Rodríguez Cabrera, Fernando Ángel Hidalgo Núñez and Alba Giner Maroto will play the violins.

The violas will be played by Claudia Puerta García, Rosa Elena Padilla Martín and Ewa Janina Moszczynska. The cellists are Ciro Hernández Perdigón and Juan Luis Giner Maroto. Adasat Adama Santana Suárez will play the double bass, and the flutes will be played by Carmen Delia Perdomo Amaral, Óscar Sánchez Sánchez and Sara Marrero Pérez.

The oboe will be played by Víctor de la Fuente Brito and Carmen González González. The clarinet players will be Unai Jacob Marrero Simón and David Delgado Hernández. On the trumpets there will be Jesús Miguel García Pérez, Alejandro González López, Efrén Enrique Carvajal Machado, Francisco José Rodríguez Afonso and Jesús Rubén Afonso Martín.

Daniel García Gómez and Carlos Efrén Herrera Gorrín will play the saxophones, while Ema Victoria Correa Lorenzo will play the euphonium. Alexis Lorenzo Pérez, Diego Abreu Socas and Moisés del Rosario García are the trombonists, while Alejandra Rodríguez Suárez and Ashley Rodríguez Tejido will play alto saxophone. Diego Castillo González, María Vera González and Óscar Gregorio García Moreno will play percussion.

The double bass player Iker Sánchez Trueba will be the soloist this Friday in a programme that includes pieces by Boulanger, Rota, Bartók and Ravel

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Perry So, will offer the programme Paseo por el Siglo XX (A Walk through the 20^th Century), a concert that brings together pieces by Boulanger, Rota, Bartók and Ravel. The orchestra’s Asturian double bass player, Iker Sánchez Trueba, will make his debut as a soloist in a seasonal programme. The event will be on Friday [5th] at 7:30 p.m., in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

D’un matin de Printemps is a short scherzo composed in 1917 by Lili Boulanger and is making its debut in the record of performances of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. The piece is an entertaining and inventive proposal with impressionist hues that contrasts with the rest of his work and with the wartime climate that Europe was living through at the time.

In 1971 Nino Rota wrote Divertimento concertante for double bass and orchestra, an eclectic neo-Romantic work that pays tribute to the soloist Franco Petracchi which mixes classical musical heritage with the influences of northern Europe and an immersive cinematographic atmosphere.

At the start of the second part, the Symphony Orchestra will play The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19, BB 82, a suite composed by Béla Bartók between 1918 and 1924, which tells the story of the same name by Menyhért Lengyel and whose première was banned in Hungary in view of its apparent violence.

The evening will conclude with La Valse, by Maurice Ravel, a choreographic poem for orchestra presented in 1920 which was initially created as a ballet piece for the businessman Sergei Diaghilev. With a score that is very fast-paced and full of colour, the author pays tribute to the Vienna of Johann Strauss.

Perry So, who was already with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in April 2021, will be the conductor of this concert, replacing Nuno Coelho who has cancelled his scheduled participation due to a serious family problem. Perry So is currently chief conductor of the Navarre Symphony Orchestra, a role he joined in September 2022. He was born in Hong Kong in 1982, where he received early musical training in piano, organ, violin, viola and composition. He subsequently graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of Yale, specialising in Central European music and literature from the 20^th century.

During this period, he founded a student orchestra and directed opera productions with graduands. In 2008 he undertook to conduct studies at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore under the guidance of the maestro Gustav Meier and received First Place and the Special Prize at the 5^th International Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St Petersburg. Following this recognition, he was appointed Assistant and then Associate Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and he was subsequently invited to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra.

Having consolidated his presence on the five continents, Perry So recently made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and he has been in the orchestra pit of the Royal Danish Opera – The Magic Flute – and Yale Opera – Eugene Onegin – as an opera conductor. Among the latest milestones of his career, three important tours stand out: a tour of Milan conducting the Nuremberg Symphony, another around the Balkans in 2013 with the Zagreb Philharmonic and a third tour lasting seven weeks around South Africa conducting three orchestras during which he performed the Réquiem by Verdi as part of the South African National Arts Festival.

Aside from these projects and invitations, maestro So has conducted more than 30 orchestras around the world, such as the San Francisco Symphony, the National Orchestra of Wales, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, the Symphony Orchestra of New Zealand, the Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai, the Residentie Orkest of The Hague and the Philharmonic Orchestra of London, as well as half a dozen Spanish orchestras. Likewise, he has acted as an assistant conductor for highly renowned conductors such as Edo de Waart, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Lorin Maazel and John Adams.

Perry So is a member of the Conducting Faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, and he has also produced a large number of album recordings conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Concert Orchestra, repeatedly earning acclaim for critics and winning the Diapason d’Or in 2021.

The Asturian double bass player Iker Sánchez Trueba, who joined the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in 2018, began his music studies with Oscar Allen and Andrea Baruffaldi. He completed Higher Studies at the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Principality of Asturias with the highest grade and obtained the End of Degree Prize “Ángel Muñiz Toca”.

In 2010, he took first place in the second category of the Franz Simandl International Competition in Blatná, Czech Republic. Three years later he received the first scholarship from the Asturian Jazz Collective, giving him the chance to hold several concerts with different musicians on the regional scene.

In 2014 he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain (JONDE) and in 2016 a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO), in both as a soloist. Sánchez regularly collaborates with different groups, such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo (OFIL), the Orchestra and Choir of Madrid (ORCAM) and the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid (OSM). He has also been a guest soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Castile and León (OSCyL). All of this has enabled him to perform under internationally renowned conductors such as Philippe Jordan, David Afkham, Jonathan Nott, Daniel Harding, Lorenzo Viotti and Fabio Luisi.

ATADEM, the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, has scheduled its usual talk on the works that will be performed in this concert. On this occasion, the talk will be provided by Sergio Rodríguez González. The meeting, with free entry for members and the general public, begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida of the Auditorio de Tenerife "Adán Martin".

The tickets for this new event can be purchased until the day of the concert 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.

The recital by the musician from Madrid takes place on Tuesday [2^nd] at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers next Tuesday [2^nd], at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall, a concert by the pianist from Madrid, Luis Fernando Pérez, who will perform Isaac Albéniz's Iberia suite. Tickets are available at a single price of €15, as well as special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

Iberia is a masterpiece by the Spanish musician Isaac Albéniz, considered a bravura piece of piano literature. It is formed by a cycle of twelve impressions for piano of great unity where all the pieces, except the first Evocation and Lavapiés, allude to southern Spain, Andalusia, despite not having a descriptive intention. These twelve impressions were composed between 1905 and 1908 and premièred in Paris in the last year of his life.

The mastery of piano dominated the life and work of the Catalan musician who, at a very early age, gave his first performance in Barcelona aged just four. As a composer, although he initially seemed to triumph in the lyrical field, none of his entire vocal or symphonic work comes close to the success of his repertoire for piano (normally gathered in collections). Among all of them, Iberia reveals a richness of composition that goes beyond pure mastery. Notable innovations in piano technique stand out but also a broad colour scheme, with a complex and refined treatment of harmony, and an endless source of inspiration that showed a new way of conceiving Spanish folklore.

Divided into four books, each of its pieces is meticulously created despite their rhapsodic feel and naturally shaped to its formal framework. A cycle of great unity that is presented in concert format as a homage to the centenary of Alicia de Larrocha’s birth by the pianist Luis Fernando Pérez. He is one of the greatest experts in the Spanish repertoire at present, winner of the Enrique Granados Award of Barcelona (Alicia de Larrocha Award) and the Albéniz Medal.

Praised for his mastery, his colourful playing and his extraordinary and rare capacity to communicate directly with his audience, according to Le Monde, Pérez is considered one of the most exceptional performers of his generation and the "Renaissance of Spanish piano". Throughout his career, he has been conducted by José Ramón Encinar, Antoni Ros Marbá, Wilson Hernanto and Kazuki Yamada. He has collaborated with orchestras such as the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Spanish radio RTVE, the Ensemble Orchestral of Paris, the Kanazawa Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestras Franz Liszt of Budapest and Mannheim.

His recordings released by the label Mirare devoted to Chopin, Soler, Granados and Falla (Diapason d'Or and Shock of the Year by the magazine Clásica) have led French critics to single him out as a prominent figure of the Spanish musical renaissance. His last album project for the Mirare label was fully devoted to Rachmaninov.

Tickets for the concert in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife 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 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The quartet format proposal of the vocalist takes place this Sunday and will be preceded by the Argentinean pianist Federico Lechner.

The Auditorio de Tenerife celebrates International Jazz Day this Sunday [30^th] at 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall. The celebration consists of a concert by the British vocalist Sara Dowling in a quartet format, which will be preceded by the Argentinean pianist Federico Lechner.

The British vocalist Sara Dowling is now recognised as one of the most talented jazz singers in Europe. With Palestinian and Irish heritage, she first trained as a cellist before emerging as a powerful and expressive vocalist and composer. Her most important influences are Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan. The Sara Dowling Quartet is formed by pianist Albert Sanz, Dario Di Lecce on the double bass, and Steve Brown on the drums.

Her sound is a lively blend of nostalgic classical harmonies and intense post-bop American rhythms from the end of the 60s, where interaction and improvisation are the centres of the performance. The resounding energy of her powerful and assured voice, her irresistible communicative power and her innate musicality make Dowling one of the main jazz vocalists in the United Kingdom.

She has shared the stage with Ronnie Scott's All Stars Band, Ian Shaw, Jason Rebello, Bruce Barth, and Terell Stafford, and has toured Italy with the pianist Andrea Pozza. Dowling has sung at some of the most prestigious venues and jazz festivals in the United Kingdom (Ronnie Scott's, Buxton International Festival, Swanage Jazz Festival, Isle of Wight Festival) and at other festivals in Italy (Jazz in Borgo - Ferrazzano, Winter Teata - Pescara, Notte Bianca - Comacchio), in Spain (San Javier 2022), in France (Jazz En Touraine 2020), Bahrain and Hungary (Budapest Jazz Club).

Born in Buenos Aires in 1974 into a family of musicians, Federico Lechner began playing the piano aged 3, alongside his mother, Lolita Lechner. Later, in Spain, he studied jazz, piano, harmony and arrangements, rhythm and ear training. In 2001 he won 4th place in the Teté Montoliú Jazz Composition contest organised by the SGAE with his song Conversation with Thelonius. In 2002 his duo album alongside Jerry González, A primera vista, was a finalist in the Best Jazz Album category at the Spanish Music Awards.

He has produced recordings and gone on tours in the United States, Europe, and South America, performing on very emblematic stages such as the Rockefeller Center in New York, the Auditorio Nacional of Madrid, the Teatro General San Martín in Buenos Aires, the Flagey in Brussels, the Jazz Festival in Helsinki and the Jazz Festival in Medellín, to mention a few. Aside from his many collaborations, he has released twelve albums as an artist.

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. The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

The French baritone Stéphane Degout is making his début this Friday in the orchestra season

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, will tackle a new seasonal programme with Mahler and Bruckner taking centre stage. On this occasion, the guest soloist will be the French baritone Stéphane Degout, who will make his début with the orchestra. The event takes place on Friday [28^th] at 7:30 p.m., in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Gustav Mahler is considered the first formal song cycle by the Austro-Bohemian author. This score was composed between 1885 and 1886 under the musical entertainment format for small social circles. It has a distinctively autobiographical character as it describes the heartbreak that the composer was experiencing with the soprano Johanna Richter.

In the second part of the evening, the orchestra will perform Symphony No. 2 in C minor, the 1877 version, Cahis 8 by Anton Bruckner. This work was premièred in 1873, and it underwent several changes before its definitive version was released in 1877; however, it was not until 1891 that the Vienna version was released. This score, also known as the Symphony of Pauses due to the notable use of silences, is part of his cycle of Romantic symphonies.

Víctor Pablo Pérez, Honorary Conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, is returning to the orchestra season with a programme that notably includes the presence of the baritone Stéphane Degout. Trained at the CNSM de Lyon, he has been a member of the Ópera de Lyon and made his début in 1999 at the Festival de Aix-en-Provence.  Since then, he has sung for Opera de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Teatro Real or the Bavarian State Opera, among others.

In 2012 he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the prestigious award that acknowledges an important contribution to the enrichment of French cultural heritage. In 2012 and 2019 he was named Lyric Artist of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards.

The French baritone is renowned internationally for his performances linked to French melody and the German lied, and he has gone on different international tours and produced recordings that notably include Histoires Naturelles and Harmonia Mundi (Enfers) as well as Les Nuits d’Eté by Berlioz, all recognised with awards, especially noteworthy was the 2019 International Opera Award for Enfers.

On the other hand, the series of talks organised by the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, ATADEM, is continuing. On this occasion, Sergio Rodríguez González will further examine aspects of the works that will be performed in this seasonal programme. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida of the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The tickets for this new event can be purchased until the day of the concert 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.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is organising for 15 May the second edition of the educational communication workshops for music.

On 15 May the Auditorio of Tenerife is organising the second edition of the educational communication workshops for music. On this occasion, the musician and mediator Mikel Cañada is starring in a day session on the barriers between citizenship and cultural space.

This afternoon-evening programme begins at 4:30 p.m. and is devised for programmers, cultural managers, teachers, journalists, and social agents who work with minority groups and music historians. The registration is free and can be carried out until 10 May by sending an email with the personal details of the interested party and their curriculum vitae to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Following the presentation, the programme will begin with the speech by Mikel Cañada, The chain of accessibility for musical education, practice, and enjoyment.  After a timeslot for questions and debates, the workshop takes place, also run by Cañada, Musical mediation: The right to understand and participate in artistic creative processes. Examples and proposals. A coffee break will lead to the final discussion panel entitled Can barriers be overcome? which is scheduled to end at 8:45 p.m.

On this occasion, the main aim of these days is understanding why citizens do not feel that they are invited into cultural space: physical or social barriers, artistic preferences, etc. Also, it will consider if the theoretical parameters of diversity, collective representation, and visibility of the broad plurality of contemporary society are being fulfilled, as absences and rights to participate in artistic creative processes.

The aim of this initiative is to provide tools to rethink the design of current educational and social projects through music, based on diversity, plurality and raising awareness.

Since 2007, Mikel Cañada, a musician and mediator, has coordinated the educational and social actions of Euskadiko Orkestra, he is vice-president of the Network of Organisers of Educational and Social Concerts (ROCE), a member of the Advisory Board of Musical Teaching of the Basque Government and of the State Board of Performing Arts and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music) of the Ministry of Culture.

The ensembles from San Andrés, Guía de Isora and La Guancha give a concert this Sunday in the Auditorio.

On Sunday [23rd] at 11.30 a.m. The wind bands Aída, Isorana and La Esperanza offer a concert in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. The event is part of the Primavera Musical cycle, organized since 2005 by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

The musical ensemble Agrupación Musical Aída from San Andrés will open this new day of bands. The band from the capital's coastal district was founded in 1981 and has been led by Juan Alexis González Rodríguez since 2011. The repertoire starts with the pasodoble Els Festers de la Canyá, by Miguel Ángel Mas Mataix, followed by Free World Fantasy, by Jacob de Haan, and will conclude with Taoro, by Ferrer Ferrán, a piece whose world premiere took place eight years ago in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

Founded in 1958, the ensemble Isora arrives from the south of the island with a programme including three pieces: Lorena Tomás and Actualidad fallera, both by Ferrer Ferrán. Between both pieces, they will play the central theme from The Jungle Book, arranged by Michael Brown. Ana Gloria Carvajal Rodríguez leads this band from Guía de Isora.

The last concert in this series in April will be given by the musical ensemble Agrupación Musical La Esperanza from La Guancha, which will celebrate its centenary next year. Jesús Agomar González Guillama is the conductor of this band, which will perform the pasodoble 1º de agosto, by Nuno Osório, the soundtrack of Thor, The Dark World, by Bryan Tyler, arranged by Michael Worek. The performance will conclude with Rise of Silver City, by Rossano Galant.

In two orchestral formations, the show takes place on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall with free entry.

The Auditorio de Tenerife hosts on Saturday [22^nd], at 6.30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall a concert by pupils of the Professional Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The students will be divided into two groups of strings and percussion: The Orchestra of 1^st and 2^nd year, and the Orchestra of 3^rd and 4^th year of Professional Music Training. Entry is free until full capacity is reached.

The programme of this concert will begin with the Orchestra of years 1 and 2 of Professional Music Training, conducted by Eva Bayo, with a repertoire in accordance with the age of its members with pop style works and the well-known melody from Over the Rainbow, all with arrangements produced especially for these types of groups.  

The concert will continue with the Orchestra of years 3 and 4 of Professional Training, conducted by Cristina Padrón, with a repertoire that will begin with a song from the soundtrack from Howl's Moving Castle, followed by Desafinado before continuing with a well-known jazz standard, all with the aim of educating young musicians in different styles and making their journey through different cultures.  To finish, the two groups will unite to perform Shut Up and Dance and New York, New York.

Through this type of activity, the Professional Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife encourages pupils to participate in activities outside the school environment. The aim of this concert is to show the level and work carried out by the students and teachers.

The concert on Friday will involve the young Norwegian violinist, Sonoko Miriam Welde, who is replacing Karen Gomyo from Japan 

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the German Corinna Niemeyer, will perform the programme Estaciones Porteñas, which will involve the presence of the Norwegian violinist Sonoko Miriam Welde, replacing Karen Gomyo, who has been unable to travel to the island due to a family problem.  The event will be on Friday [21^st] at 7:30 p.m., in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

A selection of the symphonic triptych Nocturnes, written between 1897 and 1899 by Claude Debussy, will open the evening of music.  Nuages and Fêtes, the first and second movements, are a musical allegory of the different aesthetic impressions that light causes in plastic disciplines. The inspiration of the French maestro from artists who were contemporaries of his, such as Whistler, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gaugin, is present in a score that evokes his childhood experiences in the Bois de Boulogne, close to Paris.

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, by Astor Piazzolla, will be performed for the first time by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and is a score that mixes tango and the European cultured repertoire. Written between the years of 1965 and 1970, the composer from Mar del Plata wanted to pay tribute to Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) by Antonio Vivaldi and, as a whole, the great artistic and musical tradition of the Old Continent through a narration based on airs from Buenos Aires.

After the break, it will be the turn of Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39, work by Jean Sibelius written between 1898 and 1899 which, in a formal language, reflects the tensions resulting from Russian oppression and the desire for freedom of the Finnish people.

The musical and artistic director of the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, Corinna Niemeyer, who, on this occasion, is making her debut conducting the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, was trained in orchestra conducting, cello and musicology at the conservatoires of Munich, Karlsruhe, and Shanghai; and she completed her training as a conductor at the Hochschule der Künste Zürich. This season, alongside her regular commitments with her resident orchestra, Niemeyer will conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, Hallé, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, and the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, among others.

Her great musical activity has led her to combine her work conducting early music groups, the premières of contemporary works, opera, and symphony projects of general interest. She has earned a strong reputation for her ability to connect with audiences of different ages, as well as her originality in terms of presenting her concerts.

Her outstanding professional trajectory has led her to receive different awards for conducting competitions, notably including the Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 2015 and the Talent Chef d'orchestre in Paris in 2014. In 2018, the German Consulate General in Strasbourg awarded her the “Prix de l’Amitié franco-allemande” for her cross-border cultural commitment.

Sonoko Miriam Welde, aged 27, is one of the most interesting Norwegian violinists of recent years. Born in Bergen in 1996, she made her debut at the age of nine with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, and since then she has won the Norway Soloist Prize and the Virtuos competition, and also represented Norway in the Young Musicians Competition of the European Broadcasting Union. She was part of the Crescendo programme in which her mentors were Janine Jansen and Leif Ove Andsnes, and she received the Equinor Talent Scholarship.

Welde has performed in concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oslo, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Combattimento Consort of Amsterdam, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Kremerata Baltica, the Soloists of Zagreb, the Oslo Camerata and the Chamber Orchestra of Estonia, with conductors such as Andrew Litton, James Gaffigan, Joshua Weilerstein, Han-Na Chang, Marta Gardolińska and Edward Gardner.  She plays an Alessandro Gagliano violin from 1714 loaned by Dextra Musica.

The Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, ATADEM, is continuing its series of talks before concerts.  On this occasion, at the initiative open to the general public, the talk will be by José Lorenzo Chinea Cáceres, who will take a deeper look at distinct aspects that provide context for the works in this new seasonal programme. The event will be in the Alisios Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín at 6:30 p.m.

The tickets for this new concert 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.