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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.

The concert takes place this Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

The Auditorio de Tenerife will host a new event of the Primavera Musical cycle this Sunday [16th], at 11.30 a.m. in the Chamber Hall, featuring the bands Nueva Unión (Los Silos), Puerto de la Cruz and La Candelaria (Arafo). The cycle started in the year 2005 as an initiative of the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

The band 'Asociación Musical Nueva Unión', from Los Silos, which dates back to 1899, will be in charge of opening the concert. The musicians, under the direction of Juana María Bolaños Polegre, will perform The Ghost Ship, by José Alberto Pina, and Alegría y entusiasmo (Joy and Enthusiasm), by Diego Abreu Socas.

The next band, the 'Agrupación Musical Puerto de la Cruz', conducted by Francisco Jairo Cabrera Estévez, will offer in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife the symphonic waltz Destellos del Alba (Glimpses of Dawn), by Ferrer Ferrán, and close their performance with The Ghost Ship, by José Alberto Pina.

The band 'La Candelaria' from Arafo will conclude this Sunday's concert with a programme that, under the direction of Carlos Daniel Albertos Fernández, includes the pasodoble Soñad el mar (Dreaming of the Sea), by Manuel Morales Martínez, Sea of Wisdom, by Daisuke Shimizu, and the Intermedio from the zarzuela El baile de Luis Alonso (Luis Alonso's ball), by Gerónimo Giménez. 

Soprano Melody Louledjian and pianist Martin Surot will perform a floral musical catalogue with composers like Satie.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture Enrique Arriaga. As part of its Chamber Cycle, it offers the programme Fleurs, a concert of French melodies by the soprano Melody Louledjian and the pianist Martin Surot. The tickets have a single price of 15 Euros. There are also discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, the unemployed and large families.

Melody Louledjian, who played Violetta Valéry in La Traviata of Ópera de Tenerife, leads this project in which she presents "a bouquet of 61 flowers, a true musical floral catalogue", as the artist announces. Together with pianist Martin Surot and with her voice full of nuances, she portrays each of these flowers, with their contrasting and moving characters. Sometimes mischievous, sometimes dreamy, each flower is unique and is represented by French composers: Erik Satie, Jean Wiéner, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Lili Boulanger and René de Buxeuil.

A French of Armenian origin, Melody Louledjian began her musical career with the piano at the Nice Conservatory. Strongly attracted by lyrical singing and the stage, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon. She has over thirty roles in her repertoire, including Violetta (La Traviata), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Musetta (Bohème) and Norina (Don Pasquale). At the present time, she tackles a rather lyrical repertoire and has made her debut at the Theatre Dortmund with the role of Amazily in Spontini's Fernand Cortez, but she approaches classical and contemporary repertoires with equal joy. She has performed in numerous international theatres, is a regular guest of various ensembles and festivals and has released several albums.

After receiving awards for piano, chamber music and vocal accompaniment with distinctions at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the French pianist Martin Surot improved his skills at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. The Maurice Ravel International Academy awarded him a prize on two occasions and invited him to perform at the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne and at the Ravéliades festival. He has been the winner of the international competitions Piano Campus, Maryse Cheilan Ville d'Hyères and Citta di Ostra, he stands out for his "fine, delicate and colourful playing" (Le Monde de la Musique).

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.

La Asociación Puro Teatro actúa en el Centro Ciudadano a las 20:00 horas con esta divertida puesta en escena

El programa Teatro Aficionado de Auditorio de Tenerife, que depende del Área de Cultura del Cabildo, que dirige el consejero Enrique Arriaga, ofrece una nueva función de la asociación Puro Teatro. La obra Historias caóticas para cinco artistas desesperados, recomendada para público adulto, se podrá ver en el Centro Ciudadano de Bajamar, en La Laguna, mañana [viernes 14] a las 20:00 horas. La entrada para este espectáculo es libre hasta completar el aforo.

Historias caóticas para cinco artistas desesperados está compuesta por cinco pequeños textos cuyo leitmotiv es el caos. Cada una de las cinco historias está protagonizada por dos personajes que, de alguna manera, expresan sus sentimientos en un momento concreto de sus vidas. Los actores que componen esta asociación son Lidia Dorta, Jesús Patrón, Sonia Lutzardo, Glenda Suárez y Nuria Neida.

En la primera de las historias de esta obra, dos hermanos se encuentran en extrañas circunstancias y se dan cuenta de que sus vidas han tomado caminos muy diferentes. En la segunda, una pintora ha estado ocultando a su marido un gran secreto pero él esconde otro aún mayor. Un humorista al que un admirador pone en un gran aprieto protagoniza la tercera historia. En la cuarta, un marido desaparece y obliga a su esposa a acudir a un profesional para su búsqueda. Y, por último, la aparición de una madre que provoca una tremenda sacudida en la vida de su inestable hija.

Teatro Aficionado es un programa del Área Educativa y Social de Auditorio de Tenerife. El teatro aficionado fomenta el interés por la afición y producción de actividades teatrales dentro de las asociaciones existentes en Tenerife. Este programa pretende estimular las inquietudes de comunicación, intercambio de ideas y creatividad de los miembros pertenecientes a colectivos juveniles, culturales, de mujeres y vecinales, entre otros.

Sus objetivos fundamentales son promover en los distintos colectivos sociales y culturales el gusto por la práctica y desarrollo del teatro, así como la asistencia y afición del público a las obras teatrales; contribuir a enriquecer la calidad técnico-artística de grupos de teatro aficionado y crear los diferentes grupos de trabajo (dirección, intérpretes, escenógrafos figurinistas, costureros, dramaturgos, guionistas, entre otros).

The opera proposal combines traditional repertoire titles with contemporary, chamber and Spanish language titles

The subscriptions are available from 88 euros and there is a special offer for the audience under 30 years of age for 20 euros.

The Island Council of Tenerife has presented its 2023-2024 Opera season The opera programme of the Auditorio de Tenerife is formed by seven titles, which mix the traditional repertoire and renew the commitment to contemporary, chamber and Spanish language titles. The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will continue as the travelling companion of all the titles that require an orchestra.

The offer is made up of the newly created opera María Moliner by Antoni Parera Fons (October), Manon by Jules Massenet (November), the concert version of Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns (December), the Chamber Opera Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein (January), Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák (March), the family opera L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) by Maurice Ravel (April) and the opera gala Verdi singular (Unique Verdi) by Giuseppe Verdi (June). Also, it will be mediation activities with shows by Ramón Gener throughout the season and opera performances by the tenor José Bros (September) and with the tenor Airam Hernández (April), with one show at the Auditorio de Tenerife and another two in venues in the north and south of the island.

The season will get underway on 17, 19 and 21 October with María Moliner, a Madrid production of the Teatro de la Zarzuela which premiered in 2016, by Antoni Parera Fons, winner of the National Music Award. This documentary opera in two acts and ten scenes with a libretto by Lucía Vilanova recounts the life of María Moliner, a lexicographer who performed the feat of singlehandedly producing a dictionary in her home whose strength showed up the academy members (Dictionary of the use of Spanish, 1966), a publication that this show pays tribute to. The musical direction will be by Víctor Pablo Pérez, honorary conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. On the other hand, Paco Azorín is responsible for the stage direction and stage design of this work starring the mezzo-soprano María José Montiel.

On 21, 23 and 25 November, Manon by Jules Massenet will take place, it is a co-production between the Municipal Theatre of Santiago-National Opera of Chile, the Opera of Oviedo, and the Opera of Tenerife. With musical direction by Christopher Franklin, and stage direction by Emilio Sagi, the soprano Sabina Puértolas will be transformed into Manon, as she did in November 2022, at the première of this proposal at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago. She is a very young character who swings between love at first sight and sexual compulsion with her desire for wealth: she regrets her infidelities; she punishes herself in the last act and does not even realise that she is a victim of the system.

The concert version of Samson et Dalila, by Camille Saint-Saëns, will be performed in the Symphony Hall on 9 December. José Miguel Pérez-Sierra will conduct the Symphony Orchestra and the choir which will participate in this title. The Tenerife tenor Jorge de León, recently awarded the Talía Award, will play Samson and the mezzo-soprano Yulia Matochkina will play Delilah. This opera, premièred in Germany in 1877, is based on a Bible story from the Old Testament, in which Samson is a judge endowed with superhuman spiritual and human strength, and the key to his strength lies in his hair. His enemies instruct Delilah to discover his secret in order to defeat him.

The chamber proposal for this season is Trouble in Tahiti, by the composer Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), who also wrote the libretto. The musical direction will be provided by Francis Hernández of Tenerife and, the stage direction is by Siscu Ruiz, an artist from Sabadell based in Lanzarote. This opera in one act and seven scenes, premièred in 1952 in Massachusetts, is set in a rich American suburb and tells the story of the disillusionment of Dinah with her husband Sam, who is more interested in his career and distractions than in his family. It can be enjoyed at the Chamber Hall on 20, 21, 27 and 28 January.

Rusalka, by Antonín Dvořák, premièred in 1901, is coming to the Auditorium of Tenerife on 5, 7 and 9 March with an in-house production. Paul Daniel will conduct the Symphony Orchestra and André Heller-Lopes will provide the stage direction. It involves a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil, loosely based on the fairy tale Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and inspired by The Little Mermaid (1837) by Hans Christian Andersen and other European tales. The soprano Ángeles Blancas will play Rusalka, a water nymph who asks a witch to be turned into a human in order to be with the prince who she has fallen in love with, despite the fact that this means losing her voice. The tragic ending to the opera differs from other versions of the same story, which have been sugar-coated for children.

The Family Opera proposal for this season is L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) by Maurice Ravel. It will be a production by the Opera of Lyon, in collaboration with the L'Auditori of Barcelona and in co-production with the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse, which can be enjoyed on 20 and 21 April, with a session held beforehand for school pupils from the island. Jordi Francés will take charge of stage direction and James Bonas will provide stage direction. The story is based in a country house in Normandy, home to a rebellious child who is scolded by his mother for not doing his homework. Then, the child destroys his room and mistreats the animals in it, causing them all to come to life.

The season concludes with a very special opera gala: Verdi singular (Unique Verdi). It will be a single show on 22 June in the Symphony Hall with the Tenerife tenor Celso Albelo as the star of the evening. The programme includes arias from different operas by Giuseppe Verdi, a composer who is beloved by the public and the most represented at the Opera of Tenerife, which will listen to less well-known creations by the Italian genius. The orchestra conductor Óliver Díaz will lead the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by a choir group.

Members of the Opera Club for the 2022-2023 season can now renew their subscription up until the 25^th, although if they wish to change their current conditions, they must do so between 27 April and 4 May. The period for new subscription holders begins on 9 May. Subscripion holders for the Opera of Tenerife not only have a guaranteed seat during the season with a 20% discount, but they also enjoy benefits such as discounts on the Auditorio’s own programming, in the shop and guided visits, as well as personalised treatment and the chance to attend exclusive events. All the information about the season and passes can be found on www.operadetenerife.com.

The Opera de Tenerife is an initiative organised by the Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the ICDC (Regional Institute of Cultural Development) and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music).

The concert, with works by the composers CPE Bach, Beethoven and Prokofiev, takes place next week in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture Enrique Arriaga. Now, it offers the programme CPE Bach, Beethoven and Prokofiev, a concert by the Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva with works by these three composers. 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.

The programme starts with a Prussian sonata by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, considered the father of the classical sonata, the composition of works for keyboard by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach covers practically his entire musical career. During the second half of the 18^th century, the profound change of sound and technique caused by the move from harpsichord to fortepiano, along with the clavichord, demanded a transformation in composition for keyboard, which was undertaken by the fifth of Bach's children. Although he never abandoned the tradition of his father, he was able to find his own path as a composer. Created in Berlin, his Prussian Sonatas mix tradition and new forms. Although they still retain influences of Italian instrumental music, they are built on a pattern of three movements.

The following great revolution in the fortepiano and piano, as the origins of the instrument we know today, was possible thanks to the giant stride that Ludwig van Beethoven took in his writing for the keyboard. In the composer's life, his thirty-two sonatas chart an immense and continuous trajectory. Among them, his eighth sonata, popularly known as Pathetique (a name that was not given by the composer), is the work that marks the peak of his piano production up to 1800. Shortly afterwards, in 1809, he created his Fantasia in G minor, Op. 77, although it was released ten years later. Its character is that of a brilliant improvisation, free work in terms of form and content that includes a theme with variations. Both close the first part of the concert.

Two works that are very different to one another by the composer Sergei Prokofiev occupy the second part of the performance: 10 piano pieces and Sonata number 4. One of the great piano revolutionaries, Prokofiev contributed a new aesthetic language of great harmonic and rhythmic richness. The ten pieces for piano, written between 1906 and 1913, reveal the composer's liking for giving the rhythm a special key role, as well as his references to pre-classical dances. His fourth sonata was written in 1917 and concludes his first pre-revolutionary piano period. Unlike the third Sonata, with an exciting and effusive character, this work is decidedly more contained and introspective, being one of the most significant examples of the lyrical, simple and sincere style of the composer.

Anna Tsybuleva shot into the international spotlight in 2015 when she was crowned the First Prize Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. Tsybuleva has triumph in recital on many of the greatest international stages, including Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Tonhalle Zürich, and the Wigmore Hall.

Tsybuleva is signed to record label Signum Classics for a multi-disc deal, releasing her debut concerto recording on the label in 2021 to enormous critical acclaim (Brahms Piano Concerto No.2, with DSO Berlin conducted by Ruth Reinhardt). In 2022, she made the world-premiere recording of a newly commissioned piano concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.

Tsybuleva studied from age 13 at the Moscow Central Music School and the State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. During this time, she garnered her first major competition wins,  including the Grand Prix of the International Gilels Piano Competition (2013). After graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire in 2014 with the coveted award for 'Best Student', Tsybuleva furthered her studies with Claudio Martínez-Mehner at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.

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 Children's Choir of the Fundación Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra participates in this production from Modena.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island's Council managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Now, it presents this season's Opera en Familia proposal, “The little sweep”. The performances of this work by Benjamin Britten take place on Saturday, April 15 at 6.00 p.m. and on Sunday 16 at 12:00 noon, and they include fragments spoken in Spanish and parts sung in English with surtitles.

This production by the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena will have the stage direction by Stefano Monti, a veteran Italian director who is also responsible for the stage design and costumes. As for the music, Maya Barsacq, Franco-American orchestra conductor, composer, and former singer, will conduct the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. The team is completed by Andrea Ricci as a lighting designer.

The cast includes Alicante soprano Carmen Mateo as Juliet Brook, Chilean baritone Ramiro Maturana as Black Bob, the chimney sweep, and the coachman Tom, Spanish contralto Mar Campo as the housekeeper, Miss Baggott, soprano Laura del Río as the governess Rowan, and Canarian tenor Mario Méndez as the chimney sweep's assistant Clem and the gardener Alfred.

The voices of the soloists are joined by those of the Children's Choir of the Fundación Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the maestra Marcela Garrón, whose training has produced the child soloists who star in this opera and its covers:  Gonzalo Santana, Matías Fernández, Nahia del Carmen Martín, Aurora Blanco, Lucas Quintana, Ángela Suárez, Natalia Domato, Alejandra Peña, Jimena García, Elena Blanco and Victoria Aragoneses.

In addition to shows for the general public, the Educational and Social Department of the Auditorio de Tenerife is offering a school session on Thursday 13 at 11:00 that will bring together more than 1,500 pupils.

“The little sweep” is an opera for children that constitutes the second part of a stage production entitled Make an Opera! It closes this show for young people that is created with the aim of making children familiar with the genre while also providing a very suitable subject for educating this audience: child exploitation. Let's Make an Opera! began as a spoken piece, but it underwent radical changes over its first few months, with three different versions including a written version for radio.

The first part, the prelude to “The little sweep”, presents a group of amateur performers who create and stage an opera based on events experienced at the start of the 19^th century by Juliet Brook, the great-grandmother of one of the main characters of the introduction and who stars in the second part.

“The little sweep”, composed by Benjamin Britten and with a libretto by Eric Crozier, premièred in 1949 at the Aldeburgh festival (England). The story, which takes place at the start of the 19^th century, in 1810 to be more precise, tells the story of Sam, an eight-year-old boy in Victorian England, enslaved by two people who force him to clean chimneys in deplorable conditions and how another group of children, with the involvement of several adults, help him to escape this situation. Britten was inspired by two poems by the artist William Blake, devoted to the work of young chimney sweeps (The Chimney Sweeper).

The Opera de Tenerife is an initiative organised by the Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the ICDC (Regional Institute of Cultural Development) and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music).

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €10 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.

The oratorio by Mendelssohn will involve the participation of four soloists and the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, will give its first performance of Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn. On this occasion, the cast will include the soprano Alicia Amo, mezzo-soprano Anna Alàs, baritone Josep-Ramón Olivé and tenor James Gilchrist, together with the Choir Palau de la Música Catalana, conducted by Xavi Puig. The season's concert takes place on Friday [31st], at 7:30 p.m., in the Auditorio de Tenerife, but there will be an extraordinary concert on Thursday [30th], at 8:00 p.m., in the Cathedral of La Laguna.

Elijah, op.70, MWV A 25 with a libretto by Julius Schubring is a sacred drama for soloists, choir and orchestra, created in 1837 and premièred at the Town Hall of Birmingham in August 1846; with such success that the author himself wrote that "No work of mine ever went so admirably at its first performance, nor was received with such enthusiasm by both the musicians and the audience".

The vocal symphonic work describes different events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books of Kings in the Old Testament, and it unfolds as a monumental score packed with symbolism. The choir takes on a prominent role, as during more than half of the work, it essentially embodies the people of Israel.

The honorary conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Victor Pablo Pérez, undertook his studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Madrid and at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Between 1980 and 1988 he was artistic director and lead conductor of the Asturias Symphony Orchestra and between 1986 and 2005 of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. In 1993, the conductor from Burgos took the reins of the Galician Symphony Orchestra, a role he held until 2013, the year that he joined the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid as the artistic director and lead conductor. Since January 2017 he has been the artistic director of the Youth Orchestra of the Canaries.

Throughout his professional career, Victor Pablo Pérez has been recognised on various occasions, such as the Ojo Crítico Award of the Spanish National Radio (RNE) (1990), the Ondas Award (1992 and 1996), the National Music Award (1995), Gold Medal for Fine Arts (1999), Honorary Conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (2006), Honorary Conductor of the Galician Symphony Orchestra (2013), Adopted Son of Tenerife and Gold Medal of the Canary Islands Government.

Soprano Alicia Amo studied singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with G. Türk, R. Domínguez, R. Levitt, C. Mena and M. Honig, among others. She has performed two Operastudio with A. Zedda (Bel Canto) and R. Jacobs (Mozart) and has won the Manhattan & Berliner International Music Competition, the International "Mozart" Competition in Granada and the Concorso Internazionale di Canto di Napoli.

As a soloist, she has worked with renowned ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Spanish television RTVE, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of the Basque Country, Granada, the Principality of Asturias, the Philharmonic orchestra of Oviedo, the Symphony Orchestra of Vallés, the Balearic Islands, Tenerife, the Real Philharmonic orchestra, the Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, the Baroque Orchestra of Sevilla, La Cetra Basel, Zürich Kammerorchester, Insula Orchestra, Balthasar Neumann, Pygmalion, Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Düsseldorfer Philharmonie, B'rock Orchester, Bochumer Philharmonie and Haydn Philharmonie, among others.

Anna Alàs is a mezzo-soprano with a degree in singing from the Catalonian College of Music. She has been a member of the Operastudio of the Staatstheater Nürnberg and later obtained a Master's degree in Lied and Oratorio at the Berlin College for Music "Hanns Eisler". Among her acknowledgements, Alàs has won awards at the Stuttgart International Lied Competition and the P.A. Cesti Baroque Opera Competition and has received scholarships from the Humboldt Stiftung, La Caixa-DAAD and Caja Madrid.

Her latest performances include performances at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Berliner Philharmonie, Volksbühne Berlin, Konzerthaus of Berlín and Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Heidelberg, Landestheater Linz, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Musikfestspiele Potsdam, WinterOper Potsdam, among others.

Baritone Josep-Ramón Olivé studied choral conducting and classical singing at the Catalonian College of Music and continued his vocal training at the Guildhall School in London with Professor Rudolf Piernay. Among other merits, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London in 2017, as well as the First Prize in the Händel Singing Competition in 2015.

In recent performances he has worked with Le Concert des Nations, Les Arts Florissants, Hespérion XXI, OBC, London Händel Orchestra and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Olivé has performed in different international halls such as the Palau de la Música Catalana, L'Auditori in Barcelona, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Philharmonie in Paris, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Tenor James Gilchrist is an expert in English music, having performed the Church Parables at St Petersburg, London and the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony. Recent engagements include the role of Reverend Adams in Britten's Peter Grimes for Deborah Warner's production at Teatro Real in Madrid, his company's debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as performing with the Bergen Philharmonic and Edward Gardner at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Festival Hall, the Grieghallen and Den Norske Opera.

Gilchrist's current season includes his debut at the Opéra National in Paris, a European tour with Bach Collegium Japan and the St. John Passion with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto.

The Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana is a professional group created by the L'Orfeó Català in 1990 and conducted since 2018 by Xavier Puig, although it previously had the conductors R. Jacobs, M. Minkowski, K. Nagano, S. Rattle, G. Dudamel, D. Barenboim, Ch. Rousset, V. Jurowski, D. Gatti and S. Carrington.

The collaborations for this season have led it to work with Europa Galant and Fabio Biondi, with L'Orfeo in Monteverdi; and also at the MÜPA festival in Budapest; it has also presented the St John Passion by Bach, conducted by Puig, along with the premières of Reconnaissance by Saariaho and Invocation to the Earth by Campesino Corella, conducted by Halsey.

ATADEM, the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, continues with its talks before the concerts. This activity is free to its members and the general public to promote, in greater detail, analysis and contextualisation of the works performed at the concert. On this occasion, the activity will be provided by José Lorenzo Chinea Cáceres, on the same day of the concert from 6:30 p.m. to 7.15 p.m. in the Press Room, in the hall 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 concert takes place on Sunday the 26^th at 11:30 a.m. in the Chamber Hall.

The Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife receives this Sunday [26^th] at 11:30 a.m. a new concert of the Primavera Musical cycle, featuring the music bands Amigos del Arte, from Güímar, XIX de marzo from San José (San Juan de la Rambla) and Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, from Valle de Guerra (La Laguna). The cultural event is organised by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and the support of the Tenerife Island Council.

The first band on stage will be Amigos del Arte, from Güímar, who will perform at the Auditorio de Tenerife under the direction of Benigno González Coello. They will play the pasodoble Las Arenas, by Manuel Morales, the overture to El Dorado, by Tierry Deleruyelle, to conclude with Sabre dance, the final act movement of the ballet Gayaneh.

The Agrupación Musical XIX de Marzo, from San José, municipality of San Juan de la Rambla, will begin with two songs by Ferrer Ferran: Los Barbas and Euterpe. Maria Abreu Socas will feature as a soloist in the second piece. The band will end their performance with African Symphony by Naohiro Iwai, under the direction of Damián González García.

The Agrupación Musical Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, from Valle Guerra, under the direction of Samuel Hernández Ávila, proposes the pasodoble Marcos, by José Luis Peiró, Cycles and myth, by Nuno Osorio, Lia, by Mecano, with arrangements by Samuel Hernández and the violinist David Delgado as soloist, and Penny Lane, by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

The Primavera Musical cycle was launched in 2005 as an initiative by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council. During this cycle, the 36 ensembles and federation members will offer their performances at the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife.