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This Saturday, the unpublished creations of seven young composers will be performed by their fellow students

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Next Saturday [May 28], at 6.00 p.m., the Auditorio welcomes the première of the students of the composition grade at the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canary Islands. The new creations of seven novel composers will be heard for the first time in the Chamber Hall, performed by their fellow musicians. 

The performance starts with the work by Mathias Rehberg, “Look, mom, I'm a composer” with the guitar players Silvia Mercedes Izquierdo Rufino, José Luis Hernández Ramos, Josué Padrón Luis and Joel Rodríguez Delgado. The composer himself will play the acoustic guitar during his second piece: Computers are now in ctrl.

Pilares is the title given by Basilio Gómez Navarro to his composition, which will be performed by Marina Montero Torres on viola, Alejandra Nazareth Rodríguez Suárez on saxophone and Gabriel Álvarez Doreste on piano. The next work, Evanescencia, is the proposal of Felipe A. Hernández, performed by the pianist María Sánchez García.

Jacob González Marrero premieres his composition Serial killer with the violinists Alberto López Torrente and Arantxa Rodríguez Deroy, Marina Montero Torres on viola, Mario Astone on cello and Adasat Santana Suárez on double bass. The violinist Mariana Yarelis Velásquez Urbina and the pianist and composer Marcos Trujillo Díaz will perform the latter's score, entitled Internal debate - Prelude.

Next, Laura María Delgado García (oboe) will play SOBoe by Tadeo Martín Ramos. The concert of the pieces by these new composers of the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries will conclude with the audiovisual piece Viento cósmico by Aarón Rodríguez Perez.

Tickets for free 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.

In the project “La vida en el agua” (Life in Water), the pianist and composer from the Canary Islands performs together with the renowned jazz and flamenco musician from Madrid

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers this Friday (27 May), at 7.30 p.m., at the Chamber Hall the concert La vida en el agua (Life in Water). This project is presented jointly by the pianist and composer from the Canary Islands Alexis Alonso and the renowned flautist and saxophonist Jorge Pardo, specialising in jazz and flamenco, from Madrid.

This jazz work is signed by the two musicians. The pieces written by Alonso are interpreted at the piano by himself and the woodwind instruments that Pardo plays. It is an intimate show as a duo that exudes sensibility, strength and emotion from the first note. The seed of this partnership lies in the collaboration of Jorge Pardo in one of the songs of the latest piano solo project of Alexis Alonso, Love in Floating Bridges.

One of the most significant figures in global jazz and flamenco, this musician from Madrid has shared the stage with everyone: from Camarón to Gil Goldstein. In 2013, he received the award for Best European Jazz Musician at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, from the prestigious French Jazz Academy. In 2015, Jorge Pardo was awarded the "National Award for Current Music" awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.

With a career in the world of composition for soundtracks, Alexis Alonso surprised everyone in 2014 with the release of his first solo piano album, El Paisaje (The Landscape), which was followed by The Birth of Time (2016), being released in London. In 2018 he released his first album In with his own Alexis Alonso Quartet (followed by Jamboree Live 19 and Out (2020) with the collaboration of three superstars in global jazz, Seamus Blake, Ralph Alessi and Pedrito Martínez. With Love in Floating Bridges (2021) and this duo project with Jorge Pardo, Alexis Alonso returns to a more intimate environment, alongside the work with his quartet.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

The association Rondalla Volcanes del Teide will perform tomorrow [24 May] at 5:00 p.m. in the town's senior citizens' centre

The Auditorio de Tenerife organises the Amateur Theatre Programme under the Island Council's Culture Area managed by the Island's minister Enrique Arriaga.  The programme offers a new piece titled Cena de Navidad (The Christmas Dinner). The Association Rondalla Volcanes del Teide features tomorrow (24 May) at 5.00 p.m., in the senior citizens' centre of La Orotava. The free tickets are available to the public until the full capacity is reached. This show is part of the programme of the town's Cultural Week.

The play begins on Christmas Eve, with the Sánchez family waiting for their daughter Pepita, her future husband, Javi, and his mother to arrive. The parents, the grandmother and the maid are busy preparing dinner. They want to organise a perfect evening at home, but nothing will happen as the Sánchez family thought. Will the evening be a dream come true or a real nightmare?

The cast of actresses comprises Marina Santos García, Isabel Acosta Lina, Antonia García Luis, María del Pilar Padrón Yanes, Isabel Hernández Lorenzo, Ascención Díaz González and Estrella Escobar Luis, under the direction of Eusebio Galván Cabello.

The theatre group is in charge of the costumes and scenography with the collaboration of the Town Council of La Orotava.

The programme Amateur Theatre is part of the offer by the Educational and Social Area of Auditorio de Tenerife. It encourages the interest in theatre as a hobby and the production of theatrical plays among the existing associations in Tenerife. This programme aims to stimulate matters such as communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity amongst members who, in turn, belong to youth, cultural and women's collectives or 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 workgroups such as directors, actors, costume designers, seamstresses, playwrights and scriptwriters.

Karl-Heinz Steffens will conduct a programme with works by Ligeti, Adams and Bartok

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra faces this week its sixteenth concert of the season with a programme that includes works by György Ligeti, John Adams and Bela Bartok, with the conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens and the debut of the Quiroga Quartet in the season of the Insel Council's orchestra. This new concert takes place in the Auditorio de Tenerife this Friday, 27 May at 7:30 p.m.

The repertoire selected for this occasion begins with Concert Românesc, by György Ligeti, a score that is being performed for the first time by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. The work, composed in 1951 but premièred twenty years later due to Soviet censorship, is inspired by different popular melodies from the Romanian region of Transylvania, where the author lived during his early childhood, adapting them to the orchestral language in four movements.

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will continue the concert with another new release in its repertoire. It is Absolute Jest, by John Adams. This creation for a string quartet and orchestra reinterprets the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven. The composition emerged from the commission by the San Francisco Symphony to celebrate its centenary in 2012 and it is a paraphrase inspired by the work of the genius of Bonn, which reinterprets it and integrates it into the luminous minimalism that characterises the North American author.

In the second part of the evening, the Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123 by Bela Bartok, a work considered one of the most popular by the Hungarian author and a commission by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation released in 1944. This composition combines elements of western classical music and Hungarian folklore music.

The Cuarteto Quiroga is performing for the first time with the Symphony of Tenerife and it is considered one of the most outstanding groups of the new European generation. It is also recognised by international critics for its bold and refreshing performances.

The Spanish group has won awards at different international competitions for string quartets (Bordeaux, Paolo Borciani, Geneva, Beijing, Paris), the Ojo Crítico Award from RNE and the Gold Medal of Palau of Barcelona. They are regular performers on the world’s most important stages, from Berlin to New York, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Stockholm, Rome, Prague, Warsaw, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Ottawa, Los Angeles and Washington.

Their regular collaborators include musicians of the stature of Martha Argerich, Veronika Hagen, Valentin Erben, Jörg Widmann, Jonathan Brown and Javier Perianes, who will soon be at the season of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. This musical project is strongly involved with contemporary creation, recording releases of works by Peter Eötvös, Cristóbal Halffter, Jose María Sanchez Verdú, Antón García Abril and Marisa Manchado, among others.

The German conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, who is once again leading the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, is the current conductor of the Prague State Opera and he also does direction and artistic advisory work in the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

During the current season, he will direct the productions The Flying Dutchman and The Distant Sound, by Schreker, among other works, as well as continuing the “Musica non Grata” series, devoted to the figure of composers who were victims of the despotism of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.

Steffens has collaborated with different musical groups such as the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Berlin, Israel and Munich, the National Orchestra of Lyon, Toronto Symphony Orchestra or de Tonhalle of Zurich, among others. He recently received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his services to music.

The tickets for the concert in the Auditorio de Tenerife can be purchased 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 is part of the ''Primavera Musical" cycle

On Sunday, 22 May, at 11:30 am, the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts a new concert of the "Primavera Musical" cycle, organised since 2005 by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council. On this occasion, there will be the bands’ performances from La Esperanza (La Guancha), Fasnia and Adeje.

Jesús Agomar González is the conductor of ‘Agrupación Musical La Esperanza’, founded in 1924, from La Guancha. They will perform three pieces: Feria de Julio (The July Fare), Pasodoble by Fernando Bonete, the overture of Alvamar, composed by James Barnes, and Spain, by Chick Corea, with arrangements by Paul Murtha.

The proposal brought by the Asociación Musical Fasnia starts with the pasodoble Roberto Forés, by Ferrer Ferrán, to continue with the Ninth, by James Swearingen. The performance ends with Odilia, by Jacob de Haan. The ensemble, created in 1985 under the guidance of professor Adalberto García Pestano, will be conducted by Mateu González.

The Agrupación Musical Adeje, founded in 1922, is the third band to perform at the Chamber Hall under the direction of Victor Herrera. The brass band starts the performance with the pasodoble Jordi, by José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, continues with a selection of pieces arranged by Paul Murtha and finishes with the overture Ross Roy, by Jacob de Haan.

The Primavera Musical cycle continues on 29 May with the brass bands from La Victoria, José Manuel Cabrera Mejías (Icod de los Vinos) and Nueva Banda (Igueste, Candelaria). On 12 June, a concert will be held by the bands from San Juan de la Rambla, Garachico and Guía de Isora. This edition finishes on 19 June with the groups San Pedro (El Sauzal), Amigos del Arte (San Andrés, Santa Cruz) and San Sebastián (Tejina, la Laguna). 

For the Sunday concert at the Symphonic Hall, this ensemble with 39 years of history proposes works by Vivaldi, Jommelli and Porpora

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers this Sunday (22 May), at 7.30 p.m., a concert by the ensemble Accademia Bizantina at the Symphony Hall. The Italian orchestra, founded 39 years ago, will be conducted by Ottavio Dantone and will feature the voice of French contralto Delphine Galou, as well as concertmaster Alessandro Tampieri.

The programme, entitled Agitata, sacro e profano, is mainly composed of works by Antonio Vivaldi (Filiae maestae Jerusalem RV 638, Violin Concerto in E minor RV 273, Salve Regina in G minor RV 618, Concerto for strings in B-flat major RV 167, Concerto for strings in F major RV 138 and Cantata for alto, strings and continuo RV 684 Cessate, omai cessate). It also includes compositions by Niccolò Jommelli (Aria Prigionier che fa ritorno. La Betulia liberata K 118) and by Nicola Antonio Giacinto Porpora (Mottetto In procella sine stella).

The Accademia was set up in Ravenna, Italy, in 1983. Its music parts of the origins of the Baroque stylistic language standards: it investigates them without adding, removing or transforming, relying on the sounds of early instruments. This unique interpretative method began in 1996 with the appointment of its director, Ottavio Dantone, a true expert in the baroque expressive codes.

Shaped by experience and ongoing philological study, his system has enabled the ensemble as an orchestra to tackle any repertoire with awareness and honesty. Being able to convey the true intentions of the composer to the audience is a priceless asset that has earned the Accademia Bizantina national and international recognition and collaborations.

Each performance by the Accademia Bizantina, which since 2011 has also boasted the prestigious concertmaster Alessandro Tampieri, is an unexpected journey through time, an unparalleled balancing act between technique, skill, rigour, performative culture, intuition and stylistic precision.

It has been awarded renowned prizes such as Diapason d'Or, Midem, Choc di Classica, Opus Klassik, Grammy Music Awards and Gramophone Awards. Likewise, the orchestra has performed at the world’s  most renowned theatres and festivals.

Contralto singer Delphine Galou studied philosophy at the Sorbonne while also studying piano and singing. She specialised in the Baroque repertoire, collaborating with groups such as Balthasar Neumann (Thomas Hengelbrock), I Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis) and the Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone). 

Galou is regularly invited by the most important international theatres, such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées or the Covent Garden London. The contralto has performed, among others, the roles of Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, Orlando furioso, Orfeo, Zenobia and Bradamante. Her performance with Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina won the prestigious Gramophone Award in 2018.

Born in Ravenna, Alessandro Tampieri began his music studies in his hometown and became a member of the Accademia Bizantina at the age of fifteen. During his education he was devoted, with equal interest, to the violin and viola, working with very well-known composers such as Luciano Berio and Azio Corghi, acquiring significant experience as a violist in the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Alessandro Tampieri had been interested in the exciting subject of historically informed performance based on academic criteria since his early years of study, and he soon began to appear with various early music groups. He also teaches at the "G. Rossini" Conservatory of Music in Pesaro.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is the new educational proposal that will also reach more than 780 schoolchildren during the week

On Saturday [21 May] at 12:00 noon, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra offers the family concert Italian Symphony under the direction of Alessandro Palumbo, with Ana Hernández Sanchiz as narrator and the audio-visual resources of Abekoco. This activity takes place in the Auditorio de Tenerife and offers us a programme with Symphony No. 4 in A major, Italian, Op. 90, by Felix Mendelssohn.

The Orchestra sponsored by Tenerife Island Council will perform this work composed in 1833 whose origins lie in the trip by the German composer around the European continent between 1830 and 1831. The musical score outlines the impressions of his journey in the form of music, focused on conveying different images, like the Mediterranean sun, architecture, art, landscapes and the joy of the people.

The tickets for the family concert can be purchased until fifteen minutes before the performance on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the Auditorium's box officeand by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

This week’s activity by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra is completed with the concerts for educational centres and groups, which will be held at 10:30 from Wednesday (18th) to Friday (20th). The first concert is for schoolchildren from Orobal (Arona), the Secondary schools IES Lucas Martín Espino (Icod de los Vinos), IES Viera y Clavijo (La Laguna), IES Teobaldo Power, IES Domingo Pérez Minik, IES Benito Pérez Armas and the San Juan de Dios Psychopedagogical Centre (Santa Cruz). 

The groups from IES Valle Guerra (La Laguna), IES Mencey Bencomo (Los Realejos), IES San Benito (La Laguna), IES Villalba Hervás (La Orotava), Orobal and the San Juan de Dios Psychopedagogical Centre are scheduled to attend the concert on Thursday. On Friday, in addition to Orobal and San Juan de Dios, the attendees also come from Apanate (La Laguna), CEO Manuel de Falla (La Orotava), IES El Médano (Granadilla), IES San Benito and IES Canarias from La Laguna. 

This week the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Alessandro Palumbo, who is completing his piano training at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan while simultaneously undertaking studies in composition and Orchestra Conducting. Between 2009 and 2011 he specialised as a Master Repertoire Performer at the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo at the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, where he worked alongside renowned singers and maestros. 

His collaborations leading the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra began with the operas Don Quijote by Massenet (2014), and Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck (2015). In 2016 he returned to conduct Don Pasquale by Donizetti as part of the Opera Studio project by the Tenerife Opera, which also included an educational programme for secondary school pupils. 

What stands out among his most recent activities is his role as an assistant musical director at important theatres in Spain, France and Germany, as well as being musical director of La Bohème at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and La Traviataat the Tenerife Opera. He recently made his debut in Rigoletto during the Festival Verdi di Parma in Busseto and returned to Tenerife with the Requiem by Donizetti. 

Ana Hernández Sanchiz is a Spanish actress who combines musical teaching and cultural management. She currently collaborates with the programmes of the main national symphony orchestras and other prestigious institutions such as the Teatro Real, Teatros del Canal, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro de la Maestranza, Auditoriums Kursaal and Baluarte. 

Hernández Sanchiz is carrying out the project “Adoptar un Músico” (Adopt a Musician) at the National and Symphonic Orchestras of Bilbao and Seville. In Latin America, she has collaborated with the Gran Teatro Nacional of Lima and Teatro Solís in Montevideo, the National Symphony Orchestras of Colombia, the Bicentennial National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Peru, the Argentine National Orchestra and the Concert Band of Montevideo. 

She has recorded several albums as a narrator of musical tales and she holds creative workshops on socio-educational projects with different groups. She is also the co-founder and member of the companies of stage creators Arquetípicas and Atlantis.

Pieces by Schumann, Chopin and Ravel make up this romantic programme that takes place in the Chamber Hall at 7.30 p.m.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Next Tuesday [17 May] at 7.30 p.m., the Chamber Hall will host a piano concert by the Cuban musician Jorge Luis Prats. The programme includes works by Robert Schumann,Frédéric Chopin and Maurice Ravel.

During his concert Prats romántico, the artist will perform a truly beautiful and demanding programme with two of the romantic composers who wrote best for the piano: Schumann, whose Symphonic Studies op.13 will be performed, and Frédéric Chopin, with his Preludes op.28. 

The performance in the Chamber Hall includes an intermission and will conclude with the transcription of the piano solo that Maurice Ravel produced for his orchestral work La Valse. Sensual, grandiose music and a real challenge for the acclaimed pianist.

Prats combines the mastery and the rigour of the best Russian school with the warmth assumed from an artist from the tropics. His debut in 2008 at the "Meister Pianisten" at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, received so many ovations that Prats played the same series again over the following three years, which had only happened previously with the pianists Alfred Brendel and Grigory Sokolov.

Jorge Luis Prats has gone on tours around Europe, Latin America, China, Japan and Korea, playing with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic in London, BBC Symphony, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de Paris, and with most of the Spanish orchestras: Orquesta Nacional de España, Sinfónica de Galicia, Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Sinfónica de Barcelona, Orquesta de Valencia, Sinfónica de Tenerife, Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Oviedo Filarmonía, etc. He was also Artistic Director of the National Orchestra of Cuba from 1985 to 2002, and he went on several tours around Spain and Latin America with this orchestra.

Jorge Luis Prats was born in Camagüey (Cuba), in 1956, to parents of Spanish origin. After graduating from the National School of Arts of Havana, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he perfected his technique with Rudolf Kerer. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory with the Franco-Brazilian maestro Magda Tagliaferro, and subsequently at the Hochschüle für Müsik und Kunstler in Vienna with the great pianist Paul Badura-Skoda. He also received masterclasses from Witold Malcuzcynski in Warsaw.

At the age of 21, Jorge Luis Prats won first prize in the prestigious Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris and the special award for the best performance of the works of Ravel and Jolivet.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

The wind bands Unión y Amistad, Aída and El Salvador take part this Sunday in the new Primavera Musical programme

On Sunday, 15 May, at 11:30 am, the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts a new concert of the "Primavera Musical" cycle, with the performance of the brass bands Unión y Amistad and Aída, both from Santa Cruz, and El Salvador from La Matanza. The cycle is an initiative by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and the collaboration of the Tenerife Island Council.

Under the direction of Iván Yeray Rodríguez, the Asociación Musical Unión y Amistad, founded in 1990 in the southwest of Santa Cruz, will perform three pieces: Sanlúcar de Barrameda by the Valencia-born composer Ferrer Ferrán, By the rivers of Babylon by the North-American Ed Huckeby, and a medley from Mecano, arranged by Azael Tormo.

The second brass band that participates during this Sunday's concert is the Asociación Cultural y Recreativa Unión Musical Aída, which was founded in 1981 in the San Andrés district of Santa Cruz. Juan Alexis González is the director of the brass band since 2011. The concert starts with the march Irak, by the Alicante-born Miguel Ángel Mas, Ross Roy, a work created by the Dutch Jacob de Haan, and the pasodoble Consuelo Císcar, by Ferrer Ferrán.

The Agrupación Musical El Salvador from La Matanza, founded in 1850, offers three pieces from its repertoire: Return of the Vikings, by the Belgian composer Bert Apertmont, the overture Four Winds, composed by the American Robert Sheldon, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, by the American Danny Elfman with arrangements by Michael Brown. The band is directed by Ismael Brajín.

Three companies selected by the national catalogue "Acieloabierto" will present their pieces starting at 19:30

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council and managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Next Saturday [day 14] at 7:30 p.m., Auditorio de Tenerife presents three outdoor dance shows. Träd, by Colectivo Lamajara; Am I what? by Elvi Balboa, and Du@l>, by Juan Carlos Avecilla, all of them selected by the national catalogue programme Acieloabierto (Spanish Ministry of Culture). The performances take place outside the building, and the access is free. 

The Lamajara Collective is an organisation of artists who share an interest in the body’s language and its expressive possibilities. Träd is based on the question: What would happen if each day you woke up somewhere in the world, and you lived, one by one, each of those possible lives? On this basis, they explore the transformation of the body according to the circumstances. Another world is possible where there are no executioners or victims, where power is not above the human, and where values and the essence of people are essential.

The artistic proposals of Elvi Balboa normally turn public spaces and unique spaces into spaces of study and creation. The aim is to understand these spaces across all their riches and dimensions: spatial, historic, social and poetic. Am I what? her first creation as a director was nominated as best street show at the Pad Awards (Andalusian Association of Dance Professionals). It is an ode to the individuality of human beings as opposed to the collective group that tries to gobble it up. On this occasion, the language of dance provides a deep reflection on the consumption of bodies, seeing bodies and competing to be the most seen body.

The company by Juan Carlos Avecilla was founded in 2015. Throughout its trajectory, it has received several awards and recognitions. Du@l> is an arbitrary social construction resulting from the patriarchal organisation and male dominance, formed by series of values, definitions, beliefs and meanings about being, having to be and not being male, but above all, of their status in relation to women. It is possible to be a man and be scared, tender, charming, weak, peaceful, careful, etc. Two different bodies, two styles, and two forms of movement challenge one another metaphorically, thus showing superiority over the other through folk singing with the figure of two roosters.

The performances take place outside the building, close to where its cafeteria is located. This open-air dance evening brings to a close the programme of FAM Primavera, in collaboration with the Danza a Escena and Acieloabierto programmes of the Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas y de la Música del Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de España (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music of the Spanish Ministry of Culture).

La mezzosoprano Catriona Morison es la solista invitada para interpretar el Kindertotenlieder de Mahler, bajo la dirección de Víctor Pablo

La Sinfónica de Tenerife afronta esta semana un nuevo concierto de su temporada con un programa en el que se incluyen obras de Antón García Abril, Gustav Mahler y Antonín Dvorak, bajo la dirección de Víctor Pablo Pérez y con la participación como solista de la mezzosoprano escocesa Catriona Morison. La nueva cita será este viernes [día 13], a las 19:30 horas, en el Auditorio de Tenerife.

El concierto comenzará con Canciones y danzas para Dulcinea, de Antón García Abril, que el director honorario de la Sinfónica de Tenerife ha incluido en este programa para rendir homenaje al compositor español, fallecido hace poco más de un año. Esta suite francesa, que se estrenó en 1993 por la Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, se centra en la figura del amor idílico, a través del personaje de Dulcinea.

La velada continuará con Kindertotenlieder, de Mahler. Estos lieder, que fueron estrenados en Viena en 1905, muestran un contraste de luz y oscuridad del compositor, que se inspiró en cinco poemas de Friedrick Rückert, que los dedicó a la muerte de sus hijos.    

Este pesimismo se transforma en la segunda parte del concierto, donde la interpretación de la Sinfonía nº8 de Dvorak lleva al público a un ambiente de felicidad y confianza, que concluirá con una orquesta ofreciendo un caudal de color y luz. Esta pieza fue estrenada en Praga en 1890.

Víctor Pablo Pérez se pone por tercera vez al frente de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, formación de la que es director honorario. La solista invitada que participa en esta ocasión es la mezzosoprano escocesa-alemana Catriona Morison, ganadora del premio principal de Cardiff Singer of the World y del premio Song Award conjunto en 2017, fue miembro del conjunto de Oper Wuppertal desde 2016 hasta 2018, después de lo cual se convirtió en artista residente.

Los compromisos de invitada la han llevado al Festival Internacional de Edimburgo como Wellgunde (Götterdämmerung) con Sir Andrew Davis, Oper Köln como Cherubino, Bergen Nasjonale Opera como Charlotte, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar como Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) y Theatre Erfurt como Giove / Pisandro (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria). Hizo su debut en el Salzburger Festspiele con Franz Welser-Möst en 2015 como parte del Young Singers Project, y ese mismo año también apareció en el Salzburger Pfingsfestspiele como Minerva en un concierto de extractos de Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria de Monteverdi con Animae Eterna.

Como recitalista, Catriona Morison trabaja regularmente con Malcolm Martineau, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton y la joven pianista japonesa Yuka Beppu, en lugares y festivales como el Wigmore Hall, el Festival Internacional de Edimburgo, el Leeds Lieder Festival y Weimarer Meisterkurs.

Catriona Morison ha interpretado oratorios en Europa y Rusia en repertorios que van desde Bach hasta Vaughan-Williams. Los puntos destacados incluyen una gira del Réquiem de Mozart con Teodor Currentzis y MusicAeterna, Pasión según San Mateo de Bach con MDR Sinfoniker, Réquiem de Duruflé con la Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra y Sir Andrew Davis, y El Mesías de Handel con la Royal National Orchestra de Escocia.  Los futuros proyectos de oratorio la llevan a Hamburgo, Stuttgart y al Festival de Música de Schleswig-Holstein con Christoph Eschenbach.

Las entradas para el concierto en el Auditorio de Tenerife se pueden adquirir en www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, en la taquilla del propio recinto cultural del Cabildo y 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 wind bands Santa Cecilia (Tacoronte), Crearte (Tejina) and Los Remedios (Buenavista) feature this new event of the "Primavera Musical" cycle

This Sunday [8 May] at 11:30 a.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife is hosting a new concert in the Chamber Hall from the series Primavera Musical (Spring Music). This time it involves the participation of three brass bands. They are members of the brass bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeñ de Música', which organises Primavera Musical with the Council of Tenerife since 2005. The brass bands Santa Cecilia, Crearte and Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from Tacoronte, Tejina and Buenavista will perform this week's concert.

The ensemble Santa Cecilia (Tacoronte), was founded in 1860. This year it participates once more in this cycle under the direction of Antonio Ordóñez. Their performance starts with the pasodoble Vito, by Santiago Lope, to continue withParadise, by Óscar Navarro, and Chimo, by José María Ferrero.

The second ensemble to play during this Sunday concert is the Asociación Cultural y Musical Crearte (Tejina), founded ten years ago. Cristina Doro directs this ensemble and plays the pasodoble Rosa María Escamilla, by Julio Domingo to finish with El Bimbo, by Naohiro Iwai.

The concert closes with the ensemble Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Buenavista), founded in 1929. The first theme is the pasodoble Roberto Forés, by Ferrer Ferrán, to continue with the fandango Doña Francisquita, by Amadeo Vives, a mix of musical themes by Stevie Wonder arranged by John Wasson, and Caballería ligera, by Franz von Suppé. This ensemble plays under the direction of José Humberto Martín.