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The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and includes works by Beethoven, Franck, Bach and Rachmaninov

Nikolai Lugansky, the award-winning Russian pianist, offers a concert at the Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. The recital takes place on Tuesday [07] at 7:30 p.m. at the Auditorium's Chamber Hall. The programme consists of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, César Franck, Johann Sebastian Bach and Serguéi Rachmaninov. Tickets are on sale.

Virtuosity, temperament and solemnity go hand in hand in this programme that features great works from the piano repertoire of the last centuries. Four ascending notes open this recital. They come from the Sonata Op. 31 No. 2, named by Beethoven himself ‘The Tempest’ as a reference to Shakespeare's play. Composed in 1802, he wrote this work when his progressive and incurable deafness was unavoidably leading him to despair. From the very first chords, the composer displays his agitation, depth, thematic and formal mastery.

The programme continues with the 'Prélude, Choral et Fugue' by César Frank, the Belgian master based in Paris. This work shows a great motivic and harmonic coherence and reflects his deep respect for Bach. The author does so by composing initially a ‘Prelude and Fugue’ to which he later added the ‘Choral’. This brings continuity and mysticism to the whole work.

His tribute to the Leipzig master continues with an arrangement by the Russian master Serguéi Rachmaninov of Bach’s 'Partita for Violin No. 3' in E major. This piece closes this recital with one of the great heirs of this school. Lugansky has made a selection of piano pieces that require great technical and melodic demands. The repertoire has been created as a compendium of images.

Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist who combines elegance and grace with powerful virtuosity, a true incarnation of the Russian tradition on the international classical stage. Recognised as a master of Russian and late romantic repertoire, Lugansky is renowned for his interpretations of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chopin and Debussy.

He regularly works as a concert player around the world. During this season, he will play in Paris, Prague, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Vienna (Konzerthaus) and London (Wigmore Hall). Lugansky has been a constant participant of the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron in France for 23 years.

In June 2019, Nikolai Lugansky received the Russian Federation National Award in Literature and Art for his contribution to the development and advancement of Russian and international classical music culture over the past 20 years. In April 2013, Lugansky was awarded the title of the “Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation”, which is the highest honorary title for outstanding achievement in the arts. Lugansky has received numerous awards for recordings and artistic merit. 

Since 1998, the pianist has been giving lectures as a professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. Likewise, he is the artistic director of the Tambov Rachmaninoff Festival and regularly collaborates with the Museum-estate of Sergei Rachmaninov «Ivanovka».

Tickets can be purchased until fifteen minutes before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you are living with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

This Sunday at 12:00, the Valencia-born organist Arturo Barba offers a concert at the Symphony Hall

Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. This Sunday [5] at 12:00 p.m. it offers a matinée titled  Johann Sebastian Bach como telón de fondo et altera (Johann Sebastian Bach as a backdrop et altera) by the Valencia-born organist Arturo Barba. He will play the colossal instrument housed in the walls of Symphony Hall. Tickets are on sale.

The programme is offered in collaboration with the San Miguel Arcángel Royal Academy of Fine Arts of the Canary Islands. The concert pays tribute to the German genius by playing his pieces and those of other composers who based their works on the four letters of Bach's name. The letters are equivalent to the sounds B-A-C-H (the German pitches B-flat, A-natural, C-natural, B-natural written as H). This motive is beloved by some composers to remember the master of masters and to show off their creative skills by sticking to this theme alone. On this occasion we will show three key examples from three different centuries, and three different authors: Bach, Liszt and Ginastera.

Following this trend, a theme by Sir George Thalben-Ball will be played consisting of a solo work for organ pedals, a variation on a theme by Paganini. According to the musicologist Rosario Álvarez, it is a "spectacular solo work for organ pedals on the cutting edge." The fourth movement of Dvorák's ‘New World Symphony’ transcribed by Szathmáry for organ, brings this attractive and instructive programme to a close, played by the President of the Racba.

The Valencian director also collaborates intensely with recitals during renowned organ festivals such as the ones held at the Catholic Cathedral of Moscow, the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris or the Basilica Sta. María of Trastevere, Rome, among others. He has given recitals playing historic European organs (Schnitger, Silbermann, Callido, Nacchini, Cavaillé-Coll, Merklin, Bosch, Echevarria, etc.). During his concerts, his know-how achieved by playing this valuable historical instruments is reflected.

Built in the 20th-century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team, the Auditorium's organ is considered a unique instrument for its design, sound and musical ranges.  The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes that are housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall, which are controlled by the organist from on-stage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com  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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you are living with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The tickets are sold out for this Friday's concert, with Eivind Gullberg as conductor and Alban Gerhardt as a soloist cello

The Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) is a project of the Island Council’s Department of Culture that is managed by its Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. This Friday [3] at 7:30 p.m., it offers a new seasonal concert,  and the tickets are sold out. The 'New World Symphony’, one of the best-known works by Anton Dvorak, will be also played. Under the direction of Eivind Gullberg, who conducts for the first time on the island, the programme also includes ‘Orkesterdialogar’ by Vaage and 'Concerto for cello and orchestra', by Edward Elgar with the German cellist Alban Gerhardt playing as a soloist.

During the second part of the programme, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will play the 'New World Symphony'. This is the name with which most of the people know the ‘Symphony No. 9 in E minor’ by Antonin Dvorak. This piece has its origins in the composer's fascination with the United States, where he took up residence in 1892 after being invited to manage the National Conservatory of Music in New York.

Dvorak soon became interested in popular music; especially in black music, the forerunner of what was to come during the 20th century (jazz, swing, rock, blues...) Especially evident in the second of the four movements, the composer's defence of the black spirituals is striking. Likewise, the magical character of some harmonies that several authors relate to his interest in Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, a Native American epic tale.

The concert will begin with the contemporary work, ‘Orkesterdialogar’, by Knut Vaage (Bergen, 1961). This Norwegian composer is better known by his opera ‘Noko kjem til å komm’ (Someone is going to come) composed in the year 2000 and based on the play with the same name by Jon Fosse. During the variation that the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will perform, new style elements are incorporated, such as electronic amplification and sound distortion; the musical dialogue turns into the key factor to define an exceptional organic structure.

The second piece that the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will play on Friday is the 'Cello Concerto in E minor for cello and orchestra' by Edward Elgar, work that was premièred in 1919 with little success. Structured in four movements, this composition is considered a contemplative elegy after the European disaster suffered during the Great War. The score was first played by Pau Casals, but the audience didn't acknowledge his interpretation. It had to wait for Jaqueline Dupré, who became the reference cellist of this work thanks to her different interpretations, always intense.

Eivind Gullberg plays this week for the first time with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. He is artistic director and conductor of the Bergen National Opera, as well as conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest. He has also conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Hamburger Symphoniker and the WDR-Sinfonieorchester in Germany; the Symphony Orchestra of Vancouver, the one of North Caroline and Oregon, in North America. He has been at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockolm; the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, in Holland; Orchestre de Paris and Tonhalle-Orchester in Zürich.

After his early success in several competitions, Alban Gerhardt's international career took off with his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Semyon Bychkov in 1991. Since then, his remarkable collaborations with orchestras such as the Sydney Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland, Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Kurt Masur, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko and Andris Nelsons. He was recently awarded with the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2021 under the concert category thanks to the recent album for Hyperion 'Shostakovich: Cello Concertos' with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. His version of the Suite No. 1 for cello by Britten has over half a million listens on Spotify.

The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves". By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The contest takes place on Saturday this week at the Chamber Hall. The tickets are available for free

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. On Saturday [27] at 4:00 p.m. it will offer the regional phase (Canary Islands) of the 20º ‘Intercentros Melómano’ contest (professional category). The free tickets to enjoy the live contest between these young musicians are available at www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

Eight students of several instrumental specialities will participate in these auditions. They have studied clarinet, trombone, flute, tuba, oboe, piano and percussion in the professional conservatories of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The performances last a maximum of 15 minutes and the musicians can play a free repertoire. The jury is made up of Gregorio Gutiérrez Hernández, Francisco Martínez Ramos and Miguel Ángel Linares Pineda. After the performances, they will make their decisions public.

The first regional musician to be classified will represent the Canary Islands during the final phase of Intercentros Melómano. The national contest takes place on 4 December 2021 in Alicante (Auditorio de la Diputación). During this final phase, the 17 regional representatives will participate, and the winner will be awarded the following prize: a concert tour throughout Spain including solo recitals and concerts with symphony orchestras, such as the one offered by the Orquesta Metropolitana, Madrid or the Joven Orquesta Sinfónica of Granada. 

‘Intercentros Melómano’ is an initiative created by the Fundación Orfeo which was constituted in the year 2002. Its aim is to encourage the active participation of music conservatory students in professional competitions. The event is focused on a practical experience for the musicians. It gives them the chance to face an audience and a jury to assess their performance, and not just their technical skills.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com  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. By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre of Tenerife Island Council to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The first of three performances of Verdi's opera comes out tomorrow with the Croatian Marko Mimica as the ruthless king of the Huns

The Auditorio de Tenerife presents Attila, the second opera programmed for this season by Opera de Tenerife. War, betrayal and ghosts come together in this patriotic version of the king of the Huns composed by Guiseppe Verdi. The first performance of this production takes place tomorrow [Tuesday 23] at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall. The other two performances take place on Thursday and Saturday this week. Attila is a coproduction between the Auditorio de Tenerife with Teatro Regio di Parma.

This ninth opera by Verdi with a libretto by Temistocle Solera has three acts preceded by a prologue. Premièred during the mid-19^th-century, this proposal presents the history of Attila, king of the Huns, and his relationship with Odabella. The staging moves away from the traditional features of this title but retains the spirit of Verdi's work.

Andrea de Rosa is responsible for the stage direction and set design. His team is rounded up with Alessandro Lai, costume designer, and Pasquale Mari, lighting designer. Christopher Franklin is the conductor and will be at the helm of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.

The Croatian bass, Marko Mimica, will play the main character while the Bulgarian soprano, Tanya Ivanova, will play the maiden Odabella. Alfredo Daza, baritone, will play Ezio; Antonio Poli, tenor, will play Foresto; Rocco Cavaluzzi, bass, will play Leone and Javier Palacios, tenor, will play Uldino. Their voices sing together with the choir Coro de Opera de Tenerife.

The origin of Attila is the play 'Attila, König der Hunnen' (Attila, King of the Huns) by the German Zacharias Werner, which Verdi had read after finding references to it in Madame de Staël's essay ‘De l'Allemagne’.Moreover, he had been stimulated by the suggestion to write on a "barbaric" topic. The story takes place in Italy in the year 425. The events narrated in the prologue take place in Aquileia and the Adriatic Lagoon, where Venice was built later on. The three acts happen in Rome.

The opera starts during the invasion of Italy by the Huns. Attila has conquered the city of Aquileia and killed his lord, but not his daughter: Odabella. While she is imprisoned, she swears to avenge her father's death by killing the king of the Huns. Attila is attracted to her by the strength of her character and woos her. She gives him consent to facilitate her plans. Foresto, a nobleman from Aquileia in love with Odabella, appears on the scene.

Attila is disturbed. He has dreamed that an old man prevented him from conquering Rome and warned him: “You might be the Scourge of God, but these are God's domains”. Even so, he orders to advance on Rome. The Pope Leo I comes to the fore and speaks to him in those very words.

Attila recognises in him the man of his dreams, so he prostrates himself before the divine representative and renounces to take over the city. The opera continues with subplots of betrayal against the king of the Huns. The play will end in tragedy despite Attila’s acts of kindness.

This opera is organised by the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council and managed by its island Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga, through the Auditorio de Tenerife. The tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com 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. Special prices are available for large families, unemployed, young people under the age of 30 and ticket holders of Opera de Tenerife for the season 19-20. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre of Tenerife Island Council to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance at the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The tickets for this Friday's concert 'Viento y tiempo' are sold out

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. This Friday [26] at 7:30 p.m. it will offer the concert 'Viento y Tiempo'. The tickets for this show by Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola are sold out. According to both multi-Grammy award winners, this concert pays a tribute to life, to their mothers and the air of music blowing from Havana.

The Auditorium's Chamber Hall will receive this new jazz proposal from two great artists who have known each other since their childhood in Havana. After developing their careers separately, both musicians and friends have decided to join forces to bring this show. This has led them to look back at their beginnings, coincidences, families and the influence of Cuban music.

When Dizzy Gillespie discovered Gonzalo Rubalcaba in 1985, the Cuban pianist and composer was already a young phenomenon with a budding career in his native island. Since then, the magazine ‘Piano & Keyboard’ selected him in 1999 as one of the great pianists of the 20^th century, alongside the likes of Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich and Bill Evans. He has won two Grammy and two Latin Grammy. He has 16 Grammy nominations and EMPIK Bestsellers nominations too. All this has established him as a creative force in the jazz world.

Aymée Nuviola "La Sonera del Mundo" is a singer, composer and actress. Like the music of her native island, Cuba, she embodies that magical mixture of musical genres. She was born in Havana into a family of musicians. Some of her earliest memories are at the piano, working on melodies between lessons. Later, as she became a classically trained pianist and composer at Cuba's leading music academy, the Manuel Samuell Conservatory, she recalls her fascination with all styles, from Debussy to Bossa Nova.

The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the auditorium in staggered "waves". By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance at the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The tickets for Saturday's family concert are sold out

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra launched today [Wednesday 17] its seasonal educational programme with the event Memory. The programme offers concerts for more than 350 schoolchildren this week. It will culminate on Saturday [20th] with a double family event, which is already sold out.

The first session was attended by students from the Nursery and Primary Schools Las Chumberas (La Laguna), Melchor Núñez Tejera (Tegueste), Miguel Pintor (Santa Cruz) and the bilingual school Mayco (La Laguna). Tomorrow [Thursday 18], the Auditorium will welcome 117 schoolchildren from the schools Virgen del Mar and Montessori, both in Santa Cruz. The same programme will be offered in Los Silos on the 18^th at 5:30 p.m. to inaugurate the storytelling Festival "Festival del Cuento". The last school session takes place in the Auditorium's Chamber Hall on Friday and will be attended by 125 schoolchildren that come from the schools Bajos and Tagoro (La Victoria), Pérez Zamora (Los Realejos), and Villa de Arico.

Enrique Arriaga stresses that “this initiative is part of the commitment of our Department of Culture to offer a first-class cultural programme available to the whole of society; in this specific case, to its youngest members".

Memory offers excerpts from suites numbers 1 and 2 of ‘The Wand of Youth’, by Edward Elgar's with a string quartet, which is integrated by the following members of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra: Dorota Kwiecinska (violin), Yolanda Reyes Bartlet (violin), Brett Kronewitter (viola) and Johana Kegel (cello). Likewise, the storyteller Ana Hernández Sanchiz and the circus artist El Gran Rufus tell children the story of Edward, a mature circus performer who has the worries and weariness of an adult, but who revives childhood moments through the games and treasures he finds among old belongings. Those memories, dreams and emotions will bring back the sparkle and shine of that time with a real magic wand: the music.

When Edward Elgar (1857-1934) was twelve years old, he wrote some songs to accompany a play he was going to perform with the rest of the children in his family. He wrote down those songs in a sketchbook and recovered those sketches forty years later to create his two orchestral suites. That's why he numbered them as opus 1 a/b, a memory of those first songs that outlived time.

This educational programme is proposed by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra with the collaboration of the Educational and Social Programme of Auditorio de Tenerife. It finishes this Saturday with two performances: the first of them is for families with children under three years of age and the second one is for families with children over three years of age. The tickets for these performances are sold out. Accreditation of the child's age will be requested at access to the hall by presenting the ID card or family book.

Co-produced with Teatro Reggio di Parma, this opera takes the stage of the Symphony Hall on 23, 25 and 27 November

The Auditorio de Tenerife presents Attila, the second opera programmed for this season by Opera de Tenerife. Through this work, Giuseppe Verdi gives his most patriotic perspective on the life of the king of Huns. The performances take place on 23, 25 and 27 November at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall. Enrique Arriaga, the Minister of Culture of Tenerife Island Council, together with Christopher Franklin, the conductor, and Andrea de Rosa, the stage director and set designer, announced the details on this co-production with Teatro Regio di Parma. 

Arriaga explained that "the Croatian bass, Marko Mimica, will play the main character, Attila. The Bulgarian soprano, Tanya Ivanova, will play the maiden Odabella. Alfredo Daza, baritone, will play Ezio; Antonio Poli, tenor, will play Foresto; Rocco Cavaluzzi, bass, will play Leone and Javier Palacios, tenor, will play Uldino. Their voices sing together with the choir Coro de Opera de Tenerife.”

Arriaga reminded the audience that culture is something safe to do, especially in the Auditorio de Tenerife. The venue is the first stage to have an AENOR certification for its Covid-19 prevention and control programme. Finally, he explained that "Tenerife Island Council is working to ensure that everyone has access to culture without income being an obstacle for that purpose; therefore, the institution offers discounts for the unemployed, large families and those under 30 years of age".

On this occasion, the conductor Christopher Franklin will be at the helm of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 he already worked for Opera de Tenerife with ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’. Now he has come back to address this great opportunity. "This score is bombastic and patriotic, dark and mysterious. It contains a leitmotif as a warning: beware of strangers you are going to drink with," analysed the conductor. Franklin also mentioned that the orchestra has been reduced for the correct observance of the prevention measures.

Andrea de Rosa spoke about the content and the scenography; "It takes place during the invasion of Italy by the Huns. The opera tackles the devastating impact of this war and the violence that affected men, women and children." The set designer explained that when you stage such an opera, there are no good and bad characters, as they show other facets. Thus, Attila is a fierce man, but we also reflect on his dreams and longings. The singers must also be actors in order to convey all the nuances”. Andrea de Rosa's proposes mystery, dreams and the unconscious.

Marko Mimica interprets the main character. He acknowledged having studied all those who have sung Verdi's Attila before him to see how he could contribute to the character. The Croatian singer said, "I have been preparing for this role for ten years because I have sung many times one of the arias that is particularly complicated". He also highlighted the nuances that this opera brings to the character, such as his love for Odabella. He admits that it is the most difficult role he has played so far.

This ninth opera of Verdi consists of three acts preceded by an opening prelude. The work was premièred in the mid-19^th century. It presents the story of Attila, the king of the Huns, and his relationship with Odabella. The staging moves away from the traditional features of this title, but it retains the spirit of Verdi's work. Andrea de Rosa's team is rounded up with Alessandro Lai, costume designer, and Pasquale Mari, lighting designer.

The origin of Attila is the play 'Attila, König der Hunnen' (Attila, King of the Huns) by the German Zacharias Werner, which Verdi had read after finding references to it in Madame de Staël's essay De l'Allemagne.Moreover, he had been stimulated by the suggestion to write on a "barbaric" topic. The story takes place in the year 425 in Italy. The events narrated in the prologue take place in Aquileia and the Adriatic Lagoon, where Venice was built later on. The three acts take place in Rome.

The opera takes place during the invasion of Italy by the Huns. Attila had conquered the city of Aquileia and killed his lord, but not his daughter: Odabella. While she is imprisoned, she swears to avenge her father's death by killing the king of the Huns. Attila is attracted to her because of the strength of her character and woos her. She gives him consent to facilitate her plans. Foresto, a nobleman from Aquileia in love with Odabella, appears on the scene.

Attila is disturbed. He has dreamed that an old man prevented him from conquering Rome and warned him: “You might be the Scourge of God, but these are God's domains”. Even so, he orders to advance on Rome. Pope Leo I comes to the fore and speaks to him in those very words. Attila recognises in him the man of his dreams, so he prostrates himself before the divine representative and renounces to take over the city. The opera continues with subplots of treason against the king of the Huns. The play will end in tragedy despite Attila’s acts of kindness.

Tickets can be purchased until fifteen minutes before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com 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. Special prices are available for large families, unemployed, young people under 30s and 19-20 season ticket holders of Ópera de Tenerife. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you are living with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The concert is titled 'Luces y sombras' (Lights and shadows) and includes works by Bach, Kodály, Bloch and Pärt

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by its Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. On Thursday, the 11^th of November, Dúo Cassadó plays a cello and piano concert in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m. The concert is titled 'Luces y sombras' (Lights and shadows) and includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Zoltan Kodály, Ernest Bloch and Arvo Pärt. Tickets are on sale.

The members of Dúo Cassadó are Damian Martínez Marco, cellist, and Marta Moll de Alba, pianist. The tandem offers programmes of great sensitivity that stand out for being original and charismatic. The concert ‘Luces y sombras’ starts with the ‘Cello Suite No.3 in C major’, BWV 1009, by Bach; it will continue with the ‘Adagio for cello and piano’, by Kodály. Next, they will play ‘From Jewish Life’, by Bloch, to finish with ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ and ‘Fratres’, by Pärt.

The Dúo Cassadó exclusively record on the Warner Classics label. They have played in Israel, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Egypt, Jordan and China. In 2000 they began their artistic career, and since then they have received the recognition of the public and international critics. 

Damian Martínez is considered one of the best cellists of his generation. He was supported and recognized as such by Mstislav Rostropovich. The duo was also recommended by Alicia de Larrocha as the most brilliant duo representing Spanish chamber music. Their album Rapsodia del Sur was sponsored by the BBVA Foundation. It was chosen as one of the year's best albums and received the 'Melómano de Oro' award. The duo will soon perform in Spain, China, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat Coronavirus, such as the correct use of masks and attendance at the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium’s website.

Ya están abiertas las inscripciones, sin coste, para esta formación, que tendrá lugar los días 19 y 20 de noviembre

El Auditorio de Tenerife, espacio que depende del área de Cultura del Cabildo, que dirige el consejero Enrique Arriaga, ofrece los días 19 y 20 de noviembre el taller La poética del teatro de títeres y objetos, impartido por la creadora especializada en artes escénicas Alejandra Prieto. El plazo de inscripción, sin coste, ya se encuentra abierto y cierra el próximo día 17.

Esta actividad está destinada a personas con formación o experiencia en trabajo físico, teatro físico o danza, que puedan seguir una coreografía de movimientos. El alumnado conocerá la capacidad expresiva de los objetos y de los títeres de bunraku (teatro de marionetas japonés) a través del aprendizaje de la técnica de manipulación de estos lenguajes y podrá descubrir su esencia poética y su versatilidad en diferentes producciones escénicas, incluida la ópera.

Se abordará la puesta en juego del objeto en situación dramática, haciendo especial hincapié en su naturaleza simbólica y transformadora. Se utilizarán elementos simples y cotidianos para la puesta en escena de situaciones dramáticas que posibiliten la comprensión del lenguaje específico de este teatro, y también se experimentarán sus posibilidades de intercambio con otras disciplinas escénicas.

El taller se desarrollará en la Sala Puerto del Auditorio de Tenerife de 18:00 a 21:00 horas, el viernes, y de 10:00 a 14:00 horas y de 15:00 a 18:00 horas el sábado. Las inscripciones se realizan enviando un correo electrónico a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. con los siguientes datos: nombre y apellidos, DNI, contacto (teléfono y correo electrónico) y currículum que acredite la experiencia. El envío de la información no confirma la plaza, ya que están limitadas a 18 y, además de cumplir con los requisitos, prevalece el orden de inscripción.

Para el correcto desarrollo de este taller cada alumno debe llevar ropa cómoda, libreta de notas, cinco objetos (de tamaño no superior a 50 centímetros y que sean manipulables), una música que le resulte inspiradora y una canción (con la letra aprendida). Toda la información sobre este taller se puede consultar AQUÍ.

Alejandra Prieto es creadora escénica, directora, actriz y docente de artes escénicas. Tiene un máster en Bellas Artes (MFA) en dirección de teatro en Sarah Lawrence College (Nueva York). Se formó en viewpoints con Anne Bogart y la SITI Company en Nueva York (2008) y en dirección y creación de títeres de bunraku con Tom Lee y Dan Hurlin en Estados Unidos.

Prieto es directora artística de la compañía de teatro visual Winged Cranes, creada en Londres en 2008 y con base en Madrid desde 2010. Las producciones de Winged Cranes se han visto en Europa, la India, China y Estados Unidos, destacando la gira internacional de Bernarda’s Backstage (2011) en colaboración con el Instituto Cervantes (2014). Además, ha trabajado como creadora, actriz y manipuladora con otras compañías, como Improbable Theatre en el Festival de Spoleto con la ópera The Little Macth girl, destacando su colaboración habitual con la compañía de teatro internacional Blind Summit, con sede en Londres, en varias óperas y obras premiadas en festivales internacionales (Citizen Puppet y The Table en el Festival de Edimburgo).

Combina su faceta artística con la pedagógica y es profesora de actuación en el Máster de Actuación de la Universidad Rey Jua Carlos y en los estudios de grado de Artes Escénicas de esta universidad. Ha sido visiting artist y lecturer por la Universidad de Brown, en Estados Unidos, durante el semestre de otoño de 2013 y en la Universidad de Shanghái en 2015.

During the months of September, October and November 2021, the Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes the artist residency Sobre lo que no se ve (On what is not seen), a project by the dancer Masu Fajardo. The final exhibition will take place on Friday 3 December 2021 at 18:30.

It is an investigation into the body that is based on the experiencing action through sensations and their narration.

This piece arises after the project "Manual de coreografías" (Manual on choreography), presented at the Ateneo Cultural Centre of La Laguna and the old Convent of San Agustín (St. Augustine) as a textual exhibition.

On this occasion, the texts are acted upon by a series of collaborating artists, creating among all a single place for the reader/viewer’s imagination.  

Hence, the idea of constructing a scene that can be heard and accessed by people with reduced sight and even the blind.

In this way, "On what is not seen" stems from previous work and aims to paradoxically explore what we see, what we remember, memory, and the present as a place to be accessed for the game of expanding our memories.

The performance work will be undertaken by three artists trained in post-dramatic dance or theatre.

Imagination as a way of building the world will be part of the show. 

"There is something in what we see that we don't see."  Or, perhaps more accurately, "there is something in what we see that we don't realize that we see, that we don't know that we see."

...An impregnable blind spot at the very centre of the field of vision; perhaps, even acting as sight's fastest organizing nucleus.

For that episteme, for that general program that regulates the conditions complex under which sight is produced –technical conditions, financial conditions, political conditions... but also, symbolic conditions, fiduciary conditions, conditions referring to the abstract beliefs and narratives that a community implicitly shares– seeing is a cognitively impaired, incomplete act that is not sufficiently undertaken in and of itself.

Fragment of DESOCULTACIÓN (DECONCEALMENT), by José Luis Brea.

Masu Fajardo was born in Tenerife in 1978. She combined her studies of Art History with dance, ultimately opting for the latter. She continued her training in Barcelona, where she became a professional dancer and worked with different choreographers and companies. Starting with her solo Microficciones: cómo desaparecer en escena (Microfictions: How to disappear on stage), she embarked upon her own line of research on invisibility and intermediate spaces where sight is interrupted by the non-linear: an expanded time and a scene of a performing nature in terms of being a practice in continuous expansion.

The event takes place on Friday [5th] and will be conducted by Chloé van Soeterstède with the violinist Rosanne Philippens as a guest soloist

Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) is a project of the Island Council’s Department of Culture which is directed by Enrique Arriaga. On November the 5^th from 7:30 p.m. onwards, it offers a new season concert with a programme that includes works by  Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Franck under the baton of Chloé van Soeterstède, and with the Dutch violinist Rosanne Philippens as a guest soloist. Both ladies play for the first time in Tenerife.

Van Soeterstède has designed a concert that begins with the overture Prometheus by Ludwig van Beethoven. The work belongs to the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus, which the Bonn maestro composed when he was thirty years old and which, in addition to this overture, consists of an introduction and sixteen other numbers.

Next and to complete this first part of the programme, Rossane Philippens plays as a soloist in Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor, opus 64. The concert was composed for his friend Ferdinand David, concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. It took Mendelssohn six years - until 1844 - to compose it, and is undoubtedly one of his last great symphonic works.

The second part of the evening is devoted exclusively to the Symphony in D minor by Cesar Franck, the Belgian-born, French composer and organist. This piece was composed during the composer's last and most prolific period, when the best of his chamber pieces, symphonic poems, oratorios, etc. were to be born.

Chloé van Soeterstède's intuitive and expressive way of conducting and her presence in front of the lectern are appealing. The conductor was born in France in 1988. She studied conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music after studying viola in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2012 she created the Arch Sinfonia, a chamber orchestra based in London. In 2019 she was appointed Taki Concordia Fellow 2019-21 by the American conductor and violinist Marin Alsop.

In addition to her première in Tenerife, during this season she will make other debuts with the Sinfónica de RTVE, the Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, the Gävle Symphony (Sweden), the Bournemouth Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The latter has announced that she will be one of the Dudamel Fellows this season.

Rosanne Philippens is a violinist who is increasingly and internationally demanded. During the pandemic, she created her new ensemble, The Vondel Strings, with which she has performed at the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Likewise, the ensemble made a new recording that Channel Classics released in September this year. Philippens studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, receiving the highest distinction at both institutions. She won the first prize at the Dutch National Violin Competition in 2009 and at the International Violin Competition in Freiburg in 2014.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es. You can also purchase your tickets by phone by dialling 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 audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the auditorium in staggered "waves". By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat Coronavirus. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium’s website.