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The piece ‘Quien pide el último, pide mejor’ will be performed on Friday (24th) at 8:00 p.m. Entry is free until the full capacity is reached.

The theatre group of the Tais association offers this Friday [24th] at 8.00 p.m. in Icod de los Vinos the play Quien pide el último, pide mejor (Who has the last laugh?) as part of the programme of the Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council. Entry is free until the full capacity of the Sociedad Icodense hall is reached.

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.

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

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

El programa aborda obras de otros dos compositores coetáneos del romanticismo: Mendelssohn y Liszt

El Auditorio de Tenerife programa este jueves [día 23] a las 19:30 horas en la Sala de Cámara el concierto Schumann y amigos, del Trío Wanderer. El conjunto, conformado Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian al violín, Raphaël Pidoux al violonchelo y Vincent Coq al piano, abordará un programa compuesto por compositores del romanticismo coetáneos: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) y Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).

La primera obra de la tarde será el Trío op. 63 de Schumann en la que, en palabras de Vincent Coq, “se revela el rostro oscuro y trágico del compositor”. “En un extraño pasaje tocado con cuerdas de ponticello se vislumbra la visión celestial y angelical que anuncia la esquizofrenia que luego invadió a Schumann”, analiza el pianista.

Schumann y Mendelssohn son maestros de la música de cámara, pero no es el caso de Liszt, aunque al final de su vida compuso un conjunto completo de piezas, a menudo breves, para veladas con amigos. En 1870, un alumno de Liszt, Eduard Lassen hizo una transcripción de la famosa pieza para piano La Vallée d'Obermann pero no fue hasta 1880, cuando Liszt se hizo cargo de esta transcripción por su cuenta, reelaborándola por completo, agregando una introducción extraña y casi atonal y finalmente rebautizándola como Tristia.

“Es el trío por excelencia de nuestro tiempo”, así describió Schumann al Trío op. 49 cuando descubrió la partitura de su amigo Felix Mendelssohn, la obra que cierra este programa. “Lejos de las angustias y tormentos de la noche, aquí todo es joven y límpido, y el ardor, la pasión y la ternura se unen en una perfección formal única”, explica Coq.

Aclamado por la prensa por su sensibilidad y virtuosismo, así como una complicidad casi telepática, el Trío Wanderer se ha convertido a lo largo de los años en una formación imprescindible en la escena musical internacional. Han elegido el tema de los viajeros como emblema, de ahí su nombre que en español significa “Errante”, lo que, por una parte, implica un viaje interior, lo cual les acerca a Schubert y al romanticismo alemán y, por otra, es un viaje inspirado por la apertura y curiosidad que explora la música desde Haydn a las partituras contemporáneas.

Los componentes del trío se graduaron en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de París, posteriormente estudiaron en la Bloomington’s School y en la Julliard School de Nueva York. También participaron en clases magistrales con grandes maestros como Jean-Claude Pennetier, Jean Hubeau, Janos Starker, Menahem Pressler del Trio Beaux Arts y el Cuarteto Amadeus. Ganaron el Concurso ARD de Munich en 1988 y, en 1990, el Concurso de Música de Cámara Fischoff en los Estados Unidos.

En sus inicios, los integrantes del Trio Wanderer asistieron a las masterclasses de música de cámara del Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, sesiones magistrales que llevan impartiendo hoy como profesores desde hace más de diez años. Aclamados como una “estrella errante” por la revista Strad, el trío ha actuado en las más importantes salas de conciertos. En el repertorio de triples conciertos, Wanderer ha colaborado más de cien veces con orquestas internacionales.

Además de los discos para Sony Classical, Universal, Cypres, Mirare y Capriccio, el Trío Wanderer inició en 1999 su colaboración con Harmonia Mundi. Desde entonces se han publicado veinte grabaciones, que han sido reconocidas muchas veces por la crítica y han obtenido numerosas distinciones: Choc de la Música, Gramophone Editor's Choice, Fono Forum's Monat, CD del mes de la BBC Music Magazine's, Golden Diapasón, Midem Classical Award... Su interpretación de los tríos de Mendelssohn fue elegida como referente por el New York Times con motivo del bicentenario del nacimiento del compositor, así como la del Trio opus 100 de Schubert en 2016 por la BBC, entre las 14 versiones propuestas.

Wanderer ha sido galardonado con las Victoires de la Musique francesas en tres ocasiones como el mejor conjunto instrumental del año. En 2014 Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian y Raphaël Pidoux fueron nombrados profesores de violín y violonchelo en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Danza de París, y Vincent Coq ha enseñado música de cámara en la Haute École de musique de Lausanne desde 2010.

Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian toca un violín de Charles Coquet (París, 2014) y un Gand Père (París, 1840, cedido por el Sr. Nicolas Dufourcq), y Raphaël Pidoux toca un violonchelo de Gioffredo CAPPA (Saluzzo, 1680).

Las entradas, a un precio general de 15 euros, 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. Hay disponibles descuentos para menores de 30 años, estudiantes, desempleados y familias numerosas.

The programme, which also includes works by Debussy and Mussorgsky, will be conducted by Joseph Swensen, who is making his début with the orchestra

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra is offering a new concert that will be the début of the American Joseph Swensen conducting the island orchestra, which on this occasion will involve the presence of the clarinettist Maximiliano Martín, as guest soloist to perform Gnarly Buttons, by John Adams, a piece that the orchestra is tackling for the first time. The event will take place on Friday [24th], at 7:30 p.m., in the Auditorio de Tenerife, and will be completed with works by Debussy and Mussorgsky.

Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”, the dreamlike symphonic poem created by Claude Debussy in 1894, opens the evening of music. This piece, which premièred in the twilight of nineteenth century Paris, marked a break from the compositional trends of the era and it is considered as the start of modern orchestral writing.

Then, it will be the turn of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra to perform the début in its repertoire of Gnarly Buttons, by the American John Adams. This clarinet concert, written in 1996, pays tribute, through its three movements, to the composer’s own life experiences, alongside his father and this musical instrument, which will be performed by Maximiliano Martín from Tenerife.

After the break, the orchestra will perform the piece that gives its name to the concert, Pictures at an Exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky in the version orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. This piano suite originally written in 1874 after the death of his friend, Viktor Hartmann, was adapted for orchestra in 1922 and entails a conversational stroll through the work of the renowned architect, and fellow member of The Five group.

The current artistic director of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra of Wroclaw, the conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the City of Granada Orchestra, Joseph Swensen, is conducting the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra for the first time. 

Swensen began his musical career as a solo violinist, playing with the world’s main orchestras and conductors.  In terms of conducting work he has been the main guest conductor and artistic advisor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, main conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and main conductor of the Malmö Opera. 

The American maestro enjoys a special relationship with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, where he is the longest serving guest conductor. In addition to being a renowned musical pedagogue, he is a guest lecturer in conducting, violin and chamber music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow.

Maximiliano Martín is one of the most renowned musicians of his generation.  He combines his role as a clarinettist in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with different commitments such as soloist at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall in London, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Radio Hall of Slovenia in Ljubljana and the Hall in Durban.

Martín is making his début this season with the National Orchestra of Estonia, as well as in a series of performances in Vancouver, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and residencies at the University of St Andrews and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Wales.

His past experience includes performances with renowned international groups such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia and the Philharmonic of Macedonia, among others.

ATADEM, the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music, is restarting its talks before the concerts.   An activity organised to promote, in greater detail, an analysis and contextualisation of the works performed at the concert, which on this occasion will be provided by Carmen Celia Cabañas García, at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida, 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.

El concierto será este domingo, a las 11:30, dentro del ciclo Primavera Musical

El Auditorio de Tenerife acoge este domingo [día 19], a partir de las 11:30 horas, en la Sala de Cámara, un nuevo concierto del ciclo Primavera Musical, que contará con la participación de las bandas de música Alcaraván, Ernesto Beteta y Princesa Yaiza, que proceden de San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Úrsula y El Rosario, respectivamente. Esta actividad cultural está organizada por la Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música y cuenta con la colaboración del Cabildo de Tenerife.

La Asociación Artística Alcaraván, con más de 150 años de historia, se presenta en su cita de este año en el Auditorio de Tenerife con un programa que, bajo la dirección de Miguel Ángel Arrocha, ofrece las siguientes obras: Música y vinos, de Manuel Morales Martínez; Ross Roy, de Jacob de Haan, y Twins, de Jan Hadermann.

Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero se pondrá al frente de la banda Ernesto Beteta, de Santa Úrsula, para ofrecer un repertorio que comienza con la obra Canto a Murcia, incluida en la zarzuela La Parranda, de Francisco Alonso, y continúa con Where Eagles Soar y James Bond Suite, de Steven Reineke y John Barry, respectivamente.

La tercera formación que aparecerá en el escenario de la Sala de Cámara del Auditorio de Tenerife será la banda Princesa Yaiza, de El Rosario, con la dirección de Juan Antonio Rancel Tejera, que interpretará Izana, de Manuel Morales, Recuerdos, de José Manuel Encinoso, y Glenn Miller Medley, con arreglos de Nahoiro Iwai.

The pianist, precursor of flamenco-jazz fusion with Cuban music, offers his performance in quartet format this Saturday.

On Saturday,18^th of March, at 7:30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts in the Chamber Hall a concert by Caramelo de Cuba Latin Jazz Quartet. Tickets are sold out. In addition to Caramelo de Cuba on piano, there will be Dani Morales on drums, Jesús Bachiller Bachi on bass and José Montaña on percussion. In this project, Caramelo de Cuba (in quartet format) proposes a journey through almost all the genres and composers of Cuban music, proposing an interpretation that takes inspiration from the contemporary to a deep knowledge of tradition.

A pianist, percussionist, arranger, composer and music producer, Caramelo de Cuba is considered in Spain the precursor of flamenco-jazz fusion with Cuban music. The international specialised press highlights him as one of the best Latin jazz pianists in the world.

Born and trained in Havana, where he started with Benny Moré's orchestra and the Conjunto Casino. Talented and versatile, he has recorded and shared the stage with countless jazz personalities, such as Deborah J. Carter, Jerry González, Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban music such as Celia Cruz, Omara Portuondo and flamenco such as Diego "El Cigala", Enrique Morente, Paco de Lucía, and Josemi Carmona.

Internationally renowned, he has been awarded and nominated on several occasions for a Grammy for best Latin jazz pianist and album in the world for The Latin Jazz Corner (2011). He was nominated by Latin Jazz Corner magazine and the prestigious Down Beat magazine for the best Latin jazz pianist of the year. He won a Grammy with the album Entre 20 Aguas, a tribute to Paco de Lucía, sharing the stage with the greatest international pianists such as Chick Corea, Chucho Valdés and Michael Camilo.

Ana Belén García and Ana Aguado will play the unique instrument housed in the walls of the Symphonic Hall as if it were an orchestra.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers on Sunday [19^th] at 12:00 noon the concert El órgano vs la orquesta (Organ vs orchestra). The two members of A2 Duo will play the unique instrument housed in the walls of the Symphonic Hall at the same time as if it were a symphony orchestra. General admission tickets cost 15 euros, and discounts are available for audiences under 30 years of age, students, the unemployed and large families.

El órgano vs la orquesta (Organ vs orchestra) is a programme featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Merkel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky and Edward Elgar. The organ concerts of the Auditorio are organised in collaboration with the San Miguel Arcángel Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts (RACBA).

A2 Dúo is formed by the organists Ana Aguado (Palencia) and Ana Belén García (Andoain, Gipuzkoa). These young professionals undertook their musical studies at different conservatoires and schools of great prestige: San Sebastián, Palencia, Barcelona, Pau, Amsterdam and Toulouse, receiving classes from masters such as Michel Bouvard, Esteban Landart, Esteban Elizondo, Óscar Candendo, Jan Willem Jansen, Jesús Martín Moro, Roberto Fresco, Jacques Van Oortmersen and Loïc Mallié, among others.

With extensive experience in the field of teaching and concerts, these two organists performed their first concert as a duo in June 2015 on one of the most representative organs of French romantic organ building: the great Cavaille-Coll organ of the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Chorus in San Sebastian (1863), where Ana Belén is the resident organist.

Ana Aguado has taught organ classes at different centres, such as the Higher Conservatoire of Music of Malaga. She currently works at the Professional Conservatoire of Music of León and runs and is a teacher at the "Fray Domingo de Aguirre" Provincial School of Organ. Ana Belén García is a director and teacher at the Lourdes Iriondo Music School in Urnieta (Gipuzkoa) as well as a repertoire performer with the Easo choir in San Sebastian and director of the International Organ Festival of the San Sebastian Musical Fortnight.

With a very versatile repertoire that explores all styles and periods of organ music, A2 Dúo investigates compositions and adaptations for organs played by four hands offering several performances at different international music festivals.

According to the musicologist and president of RACBA, Rosario Àlvarez, regarding this work "unlike his religious works, Johann Sebastian Bach intended his four Orchestral Suites for the haute bourgeoisie of Leipzig". The fourth (BWV 1069), formed by 5 movements with a marked French

character, a striking Overture, an elegant Minuet and an agile and resolute Réjouissance, will be performed. “It is worth highlighting that the transcription chosen for this occasion was produced by the composer, organist and pianist Max Reger, whose 150^th birth anniversary is being celebrated", the expert explains.

The next work following in this matinee is one of the most well-known from the original repertoire for two organists: The Sonata no.1 by the German organist and composer Gustav Adolf Merkel. “This splendid and solid composition exudes influences of some of the great names of the era such as Josef Rheinberger and Felix Mendelssohn, and in the central Adagio, it is possible to find the lyricism that the latter composer used to display", Álvarez points out.

The Bacchanale, one of the most well-known pieces from the great opera Samson & Delilah by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, begins the last of the three acts that comprise this work based on the Biblical story of the warrior Samson and the beautiful Delilah. According to the musicologist, "this sensual dance is characterised by the use of exuberant rhythms and winding and exotic melodic lines created using oriental scales, resources combined with the sole aim of recreating in the minds of listeners the shameless festival in honour of the god Bacchus held to mark the arrest of Samson by the Philistines using Delilah”.

Alongside the ballet Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker is one of the most popular works by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky. Before its premiere, the musician selected eight of its songs, thus creating the Nutcracker Suite op. 71a as a concert work premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1892 in Saint Petersburg that was conducted by the composer himself. Three pieces from this collection will be performed in this concerto, "which simply had to include the very famous Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, featuring the peculiar timbre of the celesta", says Rosario Álvarez. The two remaining numbers are March and the Waltz of the Flowers. The latter is - in the words of the Racba's president - "an example of the high level of compositional sophistication to which Tchaikovsky subjected one of the nineteenth-century genres par excellence, as a result of the extensive mastery he had of the orchestra and his unquestionable ties to ballet”.

The series of marches of the collection Pomp and Circumstance have become the second national anthem of Great Britain, being performed at the end of each season of the Proms which, year after year, are held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The collection owes its name to a phrase that can be read in Othello by Shakespeare. The audience can enjoy the fourth march, which the composer himself described as "rhythmic and ceremonial”. “The finishing touch to conclude a programme that encapsulates and impeccably combines seriousness, fun, difficulty and solemnity", Álvarez predicts.

The organ of the Auditorio de Tenerife was built in the 21^st century with 3,835 pipes by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team. It is considered a unique instrument in the world for its design, sound and musical ranges. 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.

Guillermo García Calvo se pondrá al frente de la formación con un concierto que incluye obras de Montsalvatge, Saint-Saëns y Atterberg

La Sinfónica de Tenerife retoma su programación de temporada este viernes [día 17], a las 19:30 horas, en el Auditorio de Tenerife con un concierto en el que destaca la Sinfonía Dólar, que será interpretada por primera vez por la orquesta. La dirección de este programa corre a cargo de Guillermo García Calvo y la propuesta incluye Calidoscopic Sinfónic, de Montsalvatge, y el Concierto para violonchelo nº1, de Camille Saint-Saens, en el que actuará Asier Polo como solista.

Calidoscopi Simfònic, obra escrita en 1955 por Xavier Montsalvatge, abrirá el programa de este concierto, tratándose de una pieza que experimenta con la luz y el color, a través de cuatro movimientos. La partitura refleja diferentes guiños al folclore catalán y es el sostén de una de las pasiones del autor: la danza. Este proyecto sería la base de un ballet que nunca vio la luz.

A continuación, la orquesta interpretará Concierto para violonchelo nº 1 en La menor, op. 33, del compositor Camille Saint-Saëns, una composición que muestra la explosión creativa en el cenit de su carrera. En una breve partitura que aúna lirismo y virtuosismo, el autor francés intercala una vistosa conversación entre el violonchelo, a través de Asier Polo, y la orquesta, presentando así, las virtudes solistas de este instrumento.

Tras el descanso, la orquesta interpretará por primera vez la Sinfonía nº 6 en Do mayor, Sinfonía Dólar, op 31 de Kurt Atterberg. Esta pieza recibe este nombre dado el premio de 10.000 dólares que obtuvo el compositor danés por ganar el concurso organizado por la Columbia Grammophone Company en 1928, con motivo del centenario de la muerte de Franz Schubert. La partitura refleja una composición de bellas sonoridades y depurada técnica, que, según el propio Atterberg, emana de la influencia de compositores como Brahms y Reger, en la que, además, incorpora diferentes tópicos del folclore sueco. 

Tras su última actuación al frente de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, en enero de 2018, regresa a la isla, el director Guillermo García Calvo, que cuenta con una extensa carrera en escenarios internacionales como la Deutsche Oper Berlin, la Wiener Staatsoper o la Ópera de París, y españoles como la Ópera de Oviedo, el Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona o el Teatro Real y el Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid.

Tras debutar como director de ópera en 2009, con apenas 25 años, el director madrileño ha dirigido más de 200 representaciones de ópera y ballet. Entre otros reconocimientos, obtiene en 2019 el premio Faust a la mejor producción de ópera de Alemania por Götterdämmerung (El ocaso de los dioses). Desde 2020 es además director musical del Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, que compagina como Generalmusikdirektor de la Ópera de Chemnitz (Alemania) y director titular de la Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie.

García Calvo compagina estos cargos con la dirección de óperas y conciertos, destacando sus trabajos en Siegfried en la Ópera de Oviedo, Premio Ópera XXI a la mejor dirección musical; Curro Vargas o Farinelli, en el Teatro de la Zarzuela; La Gioconda, en el Gran Teatre del Liceu, Premio de la Crítica de Amics del Liceu a la mejor dirección musical o Don Giovanni en la Ópera de París.

Asier Polo, que fue galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Música en 2019, ha colaborado como solista con algunas de las orquestas más importantes del panorama internacional, como la Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfónica Nazionalle della RAI, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Philharmonic, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berli-ner Symphoniker, Orquesta Nacional de México, Orquesta Sinfónica de Sao Paulo, Louisiana Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España o la Basel Symphony Orchestra.

El violonchelista bilbaíno ha compaginado la nueva música con el gran repertorio de la literatura clásica, abarcando desde las Suites de Bach hasta la música contemporánea (Henri Dutilleux, Cristóbal Halffter, Sofia Gubaidulina), pasando por los grandes conciertos clásicos y románticos.

Dada su trayectoria comprometida con la música actual y su perfil como impulsor de nuevas obras, diferentes compositores como Gabriel Erkoreka, Jesús Torres, Luis de Pablo, Jesús Villa-Rojo, Fernando Velázquez y Antón García Abril, le han dedicado sus conciertos para violonchelo.

La Asociación Tinerfeña de Amigos de la Música, ATADEM, recupera las charlas previas a los conciertos. Una actividad organizada para dar a conocer, con más profundidad, un análisis y la contextualización de las obras que se interpretan en el concierto, que en esta ocasión correrá a cargo de Tania Marrero, a las 18:30 horas en la Sala Avenida, en el hall del Auditorio.

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

On Sunday, 12 May, at 11:30 a.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts a new concert of the "Primavera Musical" cycle, with the performance of the brass bands Unión y Amistad (Santa Cruz), Cruz Santa (Los Realejos) and Nivaria (Arafo). The cycle is an initiative by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

In this edition of Primavera Musical, the association 'Asociación Musical Unión y Amistad' performs under the direction of Iván Yeray Rodríguez. This band offers the audience three pieces. The concert starts with the prelude to the zarzuela La Marchenera, by Federico Moreno Torroba, continues with the premiere piece Ceniza y volcán, by Antonio Ramos Díaz, and concludes with La vida es un Carnaval, by Víctor Daniel and Celia Cruz, with arrangements by the band's director.

The second group to perform on the stage of the Chamber Hall will be the Agrupación Musical Cruz Santa, from Los Realejos. The band starts a new stage after the departure of José Manuel Álvarez, who was 28 years at the helm of this group and will say goodbye on Sunday conducting Steve Reineke's Sedona. The other two pieces of the programme, the pasodoble A mi madre, by Roque Baños, and the symphonic prelude La Torre del Oro, by Gerónimo Giménez, will be performed under the direction of Sofía González Batista.

The musical event will be completed with the Sociedad Filarmónica Nivaria, from Arafo. Under the direction of Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero, the band will begin its performance with Cassiopeia, by Carlos Marques, to continue with The Green Hill, by Bert Appermont and Juan Carlos Pérez Afonso as a soloist. The programme will conclude with the overture for a symphonic band titled La sombra del peregrino by José Luis Peiró Roig.

La Asociación de mayores Guanche, flor y palma representa ˋLa escuela de don Silvestreˊ a las 17:00 horas con entrada libre

La Asociación de mayores Guanche, flor y palma presenta una nueva función en el marco del programa Teatro Aficionado de Auditorio de Tenerife. La obra, bajo el título La escuela de don Silvestre, de José Cedena, se ha programado para mañana [viernes 10] a las 17:00 horas en la Asociación de mayores La Arbeja-La Luz, en La Orotava, con entrada libre hasta completar aforo.

La propuesta se desarrolla “en un lugar de Castilla-La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme”, en un pueblecito muy pequeño, uno de tantos de los que hay en esta comunidad, estaba la escuela de don Silvestre El refranes, un maestro peculiar con unos alumnos también muy peculiares. Por aquel entonces, un día cualquiera de mil novecientos cincuenta y tantos, se estaba esperando un acontecimiento que alteraba la relativa tranquilidad cotidiana de esta escuela rural: la llegada del inspector.

Esta obra se presenta bajo la dirección de Eusebio Galván Cabello y cuenta con la colaboración del ayuntamiento de La Orotava. En cuanto a los intérpretes, La escuela de don Silvestre está protagonizada por Juana Perdigón Marrero, Miguelina Hernández Pacheco, Amparo Hernández Luis, Anisia Acosta Hernández, Candelaria Acosta Pacheco, M.ª Dolores García García, M.ª Luz Valladares Fariña, Narcisa Luis Pacheco, Petra Rodríguez Pacheco, José Antonio Delgado Luis, Francisco Pérez Afonso, Sigfredo Hernández Pacheco, Restituto Rodríguez Expósito y Sabina Pacheco Cabrera.

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).

ˋEl carnaval de los animales... también de Canariasˊ ofrece tres sesiones escolares y una para el público, que ya agotó las entradas

El Auditorio de Tenerife programa la propuesta familiar El carnaval de los animales…también de Canarias, del Ensemble Resonancias. Tres sesiones para escolares en la Sala de Cámara sumarán más de mil alumnos, mientras que la función pública, que tendrá lugar mañana [viernes 10] a las 18:00 horas, ya cuenta con las entradas agotadas. El programa constará del conocido Carnaval de los animales de Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) y de El carnaval de los animales canarios, un estreno para la ocasión de los compositores canarios Celia Rivero y Sergio Rodríguez, que estarán presentes en los conciertos.

Para esta ocasión, el Ensemble Resonancias estará conformado por Raquel Martorell Dorta (flauta), Andrea Chico Díaz (clarinete), Javier Lanis (piano), Ernesto González Alemán (piano), David Ballesteros Ramírez y Marie Cooper Auber (violines), Fran Gutiérrez Medina (viola), Laura de Armas (violonchelo), José Manuel Vinagre Hernández (contrabajo) y Verónica Cagigao (percusión).

Camille Saint-Saëns presenta leones, gallinas y gallos, tortugas, el elefante, canguros, el acuario, personajes con largas orejas (burros), el cucú, la pajarera, pianistas, fósiles y el cisne. Los contrastes en las descripciones sonoras, cargadas de humor, transportan al interior de la propia existencia vital y hacia todo lo que habita en la naturaleza y el mundo de la fantasía.

Ahora el espectáculo continúa con una serie de animales reales y fantásticos de Canarias. El público recorrerá las vivencias de los canes autóctonos (presa canario y podencos), algunas de las aves más representativas (canario, pinzón azul, paloma turqué); y, bajo el agua, encontrarán la ballena azul y el rorcual. Junto al lagarto gigante de El Hierro se arrastrarán por el suelo y escalarán por las paredes de las casas junto al perenquén. Además, se adentrarán en los Jameos del Agua junto a los cangrejos ciegos de Lanzarote. Todo ello sin olvidar parte de la mitología como las guacanchas y el ladón.

En cuanto al estreno, David Ballesteros, del Ensemble Resonancias, explica que “nuestra idea de crear música dedicada a los animales canarios es un homenaje a nuestro entorno natural, con el deseo de despertar la responsabilidad por cuidarlo; y con ese fin esta música compuesta por dos brillantes artistas canarios, Celia Rivero y Sergio Rodríguez, tendrá su estreno absoluto en el Auditorio de Tenerife”. De esta manera, uno de los objetivos de este espectáculo pedagógico y divulgativo es despertar la responsabilidad de cuidar el entorno natural compartido.

Celia Rivero, nacida en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, obtiene el Máster en Música para Cine, Televisión y Videojuegos en Berklee College of Music de Valencia, así como el Máster en Composición Musical de Bandas Sonoras y Medios Audiovisuales en la Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña (ESMUC), todo ello tras haberse graduado en Composición Musical en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias.

Ha compuesto la banda sonora de distintas creaciones audiovisuales (Érase una vez en Canarias, de Armando Ravelo, y Mujeres en la Isla, de Macu Machín, entre otros). Ha grabado obras orquestales en Air Studios (Londres), en Budapest con la Budapest Art Orchestra, en Bratislava con la “Orquesta Sinfónica de Bratislava” y en Gran Canaria con la “Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria”. Ganó el Concurso de Jóvenes Talentos Gran Canaria Joven 2021, recibiendo el primer premio en la categoría de música.

Sergio Rodríguez, nacido en Puerto de la Cruz, es titulado por la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) en Educación Musical y también por el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias en Composición. Obtiene, además, el Máster en Composición Musical con Nuevas Tecnologías en la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). Ha sido director artístico de numerosas formaciones vinculadas al mundo coral (Coro Polifónico de la Universidad de La Laguna, Orfeón La Paz…), desarrollando así una labor pedagógica a lo largo de los años.

Coordinadas por el Área Educativa y Social de Auditorio de Tenerife, las sesiones escolares comenzaron hoy [jueves 9], con dos pases, y mañana [viernes 10] a las 11:30 horas. Los 1.172 alumnos forman parte de centros escolares de Arona, Candelaria, Guía de Isora, Granadilla, Güímar, La Laguna, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Úrsula y Tegueste.

ˋInspiraciones trascendentales (momentous inspirations)ˊ is the title of the concert, which takes place next Tuesday in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers next Tuesday (14 March), at 7.30 p.m., at the Chamber Hall the concert Inspiraciones trascendentales (momentous inspirations). The pianist Sergei Yerokhin will give a recital with works by the composers Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The tickets have a single price of 15 Euros. There are also discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

This programme claims that the great masters do not copy each other, but they inspire each other. Debussy was inspired by Chopin while remaining Debussy. Robert Schumann was inspired by Beethoven while remaining Schumann. And Rachmaninoff was inspired by Chopin and Beethoven while remaining Rachmaninoff. ˋInspiraciones trascendentales (momentous inspirations)ˊ are like climbing a mysterious stairway to the heavens of humanity.

Thus, the recital will open with three iconic preludes by Debussy from the early 20^th century, with which Debussy surprises the world by introducing new scales into music that had never been heard before in classical music and gives rise to a new reality. Pictorial impressionism turns into acoustic impressionism.

We will listen to Brouillards (Mists), Feuilles Mortes (Dead leaves) and the third of the preludes La porte du vin (The wine gate), famous for Debussy being inspired by the postcard that master Falla sent him from Granada with the famous Moorish gate to the city. A whole world of sensations, of impressionist colours, of flights, of revolutionary reality. Debussy was undoubtedly the genuine revolutionary of 20th-century music, with consequences that are still enduring in all our sonorous places.

Robert Schumann's Fantasy is one of the cornerstones of the piano of all time. Written by the king of poetry as a tribute to Beethoven, dedicated in turn to his friend Franz Liszt without forgetting for a single bar his beloved Clara, this incredible architecture compels the performer and the audience to face something solemn and transcendent. It was written in three movements that cover Beethoven's life, including fragments from his lieder, symphonies and piano concertos. The sonata is, in a way, a musical biography of the genius of Bonn. The letter of profound gratitude that Liszt sent to Schumann after receiving the score has been preserved.

The second part of the concert is entirely devoted to Rachmaninoff, the last of the great pianists-composers. Yerokhin will tackle some reference preludes to finish with the Sonata No 2. This piece is said to be reserved for pianists with a colossal technique, as the composer himself was. It premiered in 1913, and although Strawinsky, Busoni or Schöenberg had already broken some ground, Rachmaninov wrote an overwhelmingly post-romantic sonata, evidencing that the Beethovenian impulse was not yet over.

The socialist revolution had not yet taken place, and personal, individual writing was still frowned upon; so, Rachmaninov wrote music without slogans or strings attached. If he was tied to anything, it was to the Beethovenian legacy of self-referential music, where from an initial cell an entire sonata can be unravelled.

Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Sergei Yerokhin began studying with his father and at the Moscow Central Music School with Vadim Sukhanov.  He made his debut at the age of 16 as a soloist with the Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2, and continued his training at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the direction of Dimitri Bashkirov.

His career was launched with the impulse of his awards in important international competitions, acting in prestigious concert halls: Wigmore Hall in London, Herkulessal in Munich, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Gran Sala Verdi in Milan (Societá dei Concerti Milano), Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow International Perfomance Arts Center, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, among others.

He has also performed on the best stages in Spain: Teatro Real and Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Palau de Música in Barcelona, Palau de Música in Valencia, Palacio de Festivales in Santander and Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao. He also participated in the event for great solists Ciclo de grandes Solistas at the Auditorio in Zaragoza in 2013 alongside artists such as Volodos, Lang Lang and Pogorelich.

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.

This story can be enjoyed tomorrow, next Thursday and Saturday, featuring nine solo singers, a women's choir and the Symphony Orchestra.

Tomorrow [Tuesday 7] the Auditorio de Tenerife premieres Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), by the Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, in a French co-production that comes to Spain for the first time. This story full of love and beauty can be enjoyed in the Symphony Hall today, at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday (9 March) and on Saturday (11 March). There are discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, large families and groups of more than five people.

The proposal is being staged in Tenerife and produced among Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Rennes, Fondation Royaumont and Théâtre de Caen. It has Jeanneteau as a stage designer and a stage director. His team is completed by Marie-Christine Soma for lighting and Olga Karpinsky for costumes. For the Tenerife shows, the number of choir singers has increased, and their costumes have been made by the tailors of the Opera de Tenerife with the collaboration of the costume designer of the production.

The cast includes German soprano Mojca Erdmann as the Infanta Donna Clara, Bilbao tenor Mikeldi Atxalandabaso as the dwarf, Asturian soprano Beatriz Díaz as the princess's maid Ghita and German bass-baritone Philipp Jekal as the chamberlain Don Estoban. In addition, Russian soprano Nina Solodovnikova and Carmen Mateo from Alicante, and Russian mezzo-soprano Maria Ostroukhova will sing the roles of the maids. The Infanta's friends will be played by the Turkish-born soprano Ezgi Alhuda and the Australian mezzo-soprano Sophie Burns.

They are joined by some thirty female voices of the choir Coro Titular Ópera de Tenerife-Intermezzo. The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will set this score from the last century to music with more than 60 musicians under the direction of the musical director of this season's title, Alessandro Palumbo.

Premièred in 1922, this opera is considered the most emblematic by the Austrian composer. The librettist, George Klaren, was a scriptwriter for Alfred Hitchcock. The show takes place in one act and narrates the celebration of the eighteenth birthday of the Infanta of Spain, Donna Clara. The gifts she receives notably include one from the Turkish Sultan: a deformed and ugly dwarf who sings and dances, which the Infanta greatly enjoys. So much so that she wants him to perform just for her.

The dwarf wrongly thinks that she has fallen in love with him. He tries to kiss her and she rejects him, calling him a monster. The Infanta orders Ghita, her favourite maid, to take him in front of a mirror so he can realise the reality of his situation. Due to his humble origins, raised with his family of coalmen in a cabin in the forest, the dwarf is unaware of his appearance. Upon seeing his reflection, he understands that the Infanta cannot love someone so ugly and unpleasant, and that he is only a source of fun for her.

The discovery of this harsh reality causes the dwarf to have a heart attack and dies.  When the Infanta sees him collapsed on the floor, she orders him to get up and dance for her. Ghita realises what has happened and informs the Infanta that it is not possible because the dwarf has suffered a broken heart.

The latter orders that, from that point on, nobody with a heart should enter the palace and join the party.

Alexander von Zemlinsky was madly in love with his composition student, the famous artist Alma Schindler, the future wife of Gustav Mahler. Initially, she responded to the feelings of love from Zemlinsky, but, ultimately, the relationship broke down, seemingly, due to family pressure. Der Zwerg has been interpreted as a metaphor for Zemlinsky's relationship with Schindler, who referred to the ugliness of the composer on several occasions.

The Birthday of the Infanta is one of the four stories compiled in the book of short stories A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. For this short story, the writer took inspiration from the dwarves of the Spanish court depicted by Velázquez.

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 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.