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The Cabildo de Tenerife presented this morning [Monday, the 9th] the second Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI), to be held from 20 March to 3 May, at their base, Teatro El Sauzal. It includes 12 shows with 16 performances and features actors like Nuria Espert and Blanca Portillo. The details were disclosed by the Councillor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Concepción Rivero, and Auditorio de Tenerife’s artistic director, José Luis Rivero.

The councillor explained that “the budget this year amounts to 350,000 euros, which have been put to good use as bringing cultural events of this category to the island is enriching for all of us” Concepción stressed that staging a show like this is quite difficult: “It’s not easy to bring this type of shows to the Canaries but we’re working on it and we’ll also manage to take it to other spots on the island”.

For his part, José Luis Rivero explained the three basic points of MEI: “The first one is to bring top-level national and international theatre;  the second point refers to form, as these are not usual performances in Italian style; instead, they experiment with forms and the audience has a more immersive participation; and finally, artistic construction, which deals with the evils of our time including gender violence, migration, gender identity, the building of Europe, etc”.

This project opens a door from the island to other cultures by means of the Latin American performing arts, centring on a specific country in the Foco Section, which this year is dedicated to Argentina.

After the first weekend in January, which focused on writer, director and playwright Juan Mayorga, MEI is back in spring to offer the best of the contemporary scene, paying particular attention to Argentinian productions, which use a personal, transgressing and local touch to convey to Tenerife audiences the reality of the country.  Concepción said that this January introduction was necessary because “the shows were touring the Canaries and we could just not miss the chance to enjoy them in Tenerife”.

Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano directed by Lluís Pascual and with the voice of Nuria Espert opens MEI on 20 and 21 March. On 28 March Siete hombres buenos comes onstage. It is by Madrid playwright Juan Mayorga and has never been put on. The Canarian company 2RC Teatro ventured to stage it.

Chilean actor Felipe Cabezas becomes El Bufón del rey Lear on 4 April. After Easter, Galicia company Limiar Teatro is putting on Si fuesen turistas llevarían gafas de sol on 15 April. On 17 and 18 April comes Virginia Wolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, with Blanca Portillo in the leading role.

Unahoramenos Producciones brings a national premiere, Moria, on 23 April. The company has taken up quite a challenge: simulating a Greek refugee camp.  There will be three performances for 50 people each at 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm. In addition, this Canarian company will also give a workshop on immersive theatre for professionals at 4:00 pm on 21 April. At 8:30 pm on the 22nd, there will be a round table made up by journalist Nicolás Castellano, photographer Anna Surinyach, a Médicos Sin Fronteras representative, director Mario Vega and actors Ruth Sánchez and Marta Viera.

Foco Argentina kicks off with Millones de segundos on 25 April and Mi fiesta the following day. At the first weekend of May, the Foco section will come to an end with Ojalá las paredes gritaran on the 2^nd and Abnegación 3 the following day. The latter is a workshop for local actors, who can take part by registering on www.meitenerife.com.

All the shows, except for Moria, start at 8:30 pm at the Teatro el Sauzal, except for Abnegación 3, which will be on at the town’s Centro Cultural, next to the theatre. Information, photographs and videos of the programme are available on www.meitenerife.com.

Tickets are 12 euros and can be bought on www.meitenerife.com, Teatro El Sauzal’s box office 90 minutes before every MEI performance and at Auditorio de Tenerife’s box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday. The usual discounts available at the Cabildo’s cultural centre for the unemployed, large families, under 30-year-olds, students and groups apply. The discounts Teatro El Sauzal offers residents also apply.

MEI 2020 kicked off on 17 January with the show Intensamente azules followed by El mago, on the 18th. They are both by Juan Mayorga, doctor in Philosophy, member of the Real Academia Española, Premio Nacional de Teatro 2007 and Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática 2013.

MEI is a project of Auditorio de Tenerife’s Instituto de Artes Escénicas de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero.

The Instituto de Artes Escénicas of Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero, offers the workshop Voz, cuerpo y emoción [Voice, Body & Emotion]. Ana Vassalo, singer and teacher specialising on choral singing, and Fernando Aguilera, a renowned tenor, will give a workshop aimed at choir conductors, music teachers, choralists, singers and signing students on 24 and 25 April at the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The workshop, which if organised by Red de Coros de Tenerife [Tenerife Choir Network], is free of charge. It aims at developing natural voice through awareness. Participants will learn to develop free, harmonious singing, both individually and as a group, by focusing on the importance of the body and the emotions to achieve authentic communication. 

On the 24th the workshop is on from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, while on the 25^th it will be held from 09:00 am to 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Participants will be accepted to the 20 available places in order of registration, which is done through the “Formación” section on the Red de Coros website www.tenerifeartesescenicas.com . The deadline is on 21 April.

In a total of 16 hours of training, divided in 12 classroom attendance and 4 with no classroom attendance, Ana Vassalo and Fernando Aguilera will provide simple and practical tools to boost the work done in choirs and encourage fluid communication between the conductor and the choir or the teacher and his/her students.

Ana Vassalo, a native of Lisbon, is a professional singer, and a member of the Coro Nacional de España [Spanish National Choir] since 2004. She has been teaching singing for 10 years and coaching for singing students, professionals and therapists for 5 years. Vassalo, who has taken part in international productions, won the first prizes at the 1992 Concurso da Juventude Nacional Portuguesa and at Cleveland International Eisteddfod. In 2017 she recorded the CD Vassalo-Atlântica with original music by Julio García. 

Fernando Aguilera teaches singing and is a professional singer and member of the Coro Nacional de España. He made his debut in 1996 in the role of Don Ramiro in Rossini’s opera Cenerentola at Pforzheim’s theatre in Germany. This was the start of a successful career as tenor which has led him to perform some 400 times in different venues in Germany and Austria. He started giving workshops on singing and voice with Ana Vassalo eight years ago.

The second concert of the sixteenth Primavera Musical is on at 11:30 am at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara. The Auditorio is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero. 145 performers of the Arafo, El Rosario and San Andrés bands will take the stage.

The concert, which is admission free, starts with Asociación Cultural y Recreativa Unión Musical Aída from San Andrés. The 28 musicians, conducted by Juan Alexis González Rodríguez, will start with the paso doble Crearte, by José Luis Peiró Reig, to then go on with Jacob de Haan’s Queen of the dolomites. They will finish with the paso doble La Fallera, by Ferrer Ferrán.

The 29 musicians of the Asociación Cultural Musical Princesa Yaiza in El Rosario will play under the baton of Juan Antonio Rancel Tejera. The band will open with the paso doble Soñad el mar, by Manuel Morales Martínez, to be followed by Nuni Osorio’s Cycles and Myths. They will close with I was born to love you, by Queen, in a version arranged by Francisco Curbelo and featuring Aarón Morales as soloist.

The Sociedad Filarmónica Nivaria, from Arafo, will end the concert with its 88 musicians. Conducted by Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero, the banda will start their repertoire with Sergi Pastor’s concert paso doble Daniela Gómez de los Ángeles. They will then play Pompeii, by José Alberto Pina and will put an end to the second  Primavera Musical session with the zarzuela intermezzo La boda de Luis Alonso, by Gerónimo Giménez.

The Primavera Musical series, an initiative of the Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música [Tenerife Music Bands Federation], with the collaboration of the Cabildo, is held at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara. It started on 1 March and continues on 8, 15 and 22 March; 5, 19, 26 April; 10, 17, 24 and 31 May and 14 June. Concerts start at 11:30 am and admission is free.

On its third year, the Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Tenerife (Fimante) presents twelve concerts to take place in different municipalities across the island. Six of these events are part of the Nova Ars Organorum (NAO) series and will bring to life the historic organs in the churches of the island as well as the unique 21^st century instrument housed at the Auditorio de Tenerife. There will be a total of four concerts: two organ and two chamber concerts at this cultural venue, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero.

Rivero expects it to be as successful as in previous years, “when the churches and auditoriums were full of people enjoying early music, bringing culture to the whole island”. Different venues in Buenavista del Norte, Granadilla de Abona, Guía de Isora, La Orotava, La Victoria de Acentejo and Santa Cruz de Tenerife will be hosting the concerts, which feature organists, soloists and chamber music ensembles.

The first engagement for the 3rd Fimante will be at 8:15 pm on 14th March in San Juan Church in La Orotava.  Un concierto con dos caras [A Two-sided Concert], featuring Roberto Fresco, principal organist of the Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena. The title of the concert is a reference to the fact that there are two 18th century German organs in this church, one from the first half (Otto Diederich Richborn, 1723) and the other one from the second half of the century (unknown, 1770).

The next venue will be Museo de Artesanía Iberoamericana de Tenerife, also in La Orotava. The concert is on 17 April at 8:30 pm and features soprano Estefanía Perdomo Nogales and Carlos Oramas with a Romantic guitar to perform Canciones de Cámara Española [Spanish Chamber Songs].

On 3 May at 12:00 noon the first organ concert of the year will take place at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala Sinfónica. Loreto Aramendi, who is the principal organist of the Cavaillé Coll organ (1863) at the Basílica de Santa María del Coro in San Sebastián, will play El esplendor de un órgano sinfónico. On 30 May at 7:30 pm tenor Nicholas Mulroy and John Reid at the fortepiano will perform Beethoven: Bagatelas und Lieder at Auditorio’s Sala de Cámara.

At 8:15 pm on 6 June, the Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación in La Victoria de Acentejo will host La peculiar tímbrica de un órgano barroco germano, a concert led by Ángel Montero, principal organist of Segovia Cathedral.

Chaconnerie is the concert to be performed on 25 July at 9:00 pm by Silvia Márquez’s harpsichord at the Casa de la Cultura de Playa San Juan, in Guía de Isora.

The second organ concert at the Auditorio will be by Juan de la Rubia on 6 September at 12:00 noon with the repertoire La versión organística del Brahms sinfónico. De la Rubia is the principal organist of the Basílica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

The last Fimante concert at the Auditorio will be held on 17 October at 7:30 pm in the Sala de Cámara. It is entitled Imaginario de un libro de música de vihuela and features the voice of María Cristina Kiehr and Ariel Abramovich’s vihuela.

On 14 November at 8:15 pm La Concepción Church in La Orotava will welcome La recuperación de un concierto histórico featuring Basque organist Esteban Landart. El Pilar Church in Santa Cruz de Tenerife will host Obras románticas en un órgano litúrgico on 5 December at 8:15 pm with organist Marie Bernardette Dufourcet.

As usual, the last two concerts will be performed by the Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife [Baroque Orchestra], ensemble resident at the Auditorio de Tenerife. They will play their Christmas repertoire at 8:00 pm on 12 December at Nuestra Señora de la Merced Church in El Médano, Granadilla de Abona. On 13 December at 5:00 pm they will perform at Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Church in Buenavista del Norte.

Fostered by the Cabildo de Tenerife, through its Área Tenerife 2030, and coordinated by Auditorio de Tenerife, Fimante + Nova Ars Organorum join the cultural offer on the island to revive repertoires, both in traditional and new cultural venues. With the support of Canarian performers playing period instruments, restored historic organs, the latest multidisciplinary research and our historical-geographical situation, we are confident to be keeping and spreading a cultural heritage for future generations.

Tickets for the four concerts to be held at the Auditorio de Tenerife can be booked at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday, except holidays; via www.auditoriodetenerife.com  or by phone on 902 317 327. Information about the concerts is available on www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

The Primavera Musical 2020 series will give 12 concerts that will bring more than 1,700 musicians to the Auditorio de Tenerife. The Banda Insular de Música of the Tenerife Federation will play at the opening session, to be held at 11:30 am on Sunday, 1st March at the Sala de Cámara in Auditorio de Tenerife, a venue under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero.

The Primavera Musical series, an initiative of the Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música [Tenerife Music Band Federation], has the collaboration of the Cabildo and is held at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara on 01, 08, 15, 22 March, 05, 19, 26 April, 10, 17, 24 and 31 May and 14 June. Admission to all the concerts is free of charge.

The 60 performers of this island band, made up by musicians of all the ensembles that make up the federation, will play under the baton of Damián González, its new conductor. The programme begins with Cuban overture by George Gershwin, to go on with Cabeza compostizo, by Ferrer Ferrán. Next comes Jamalajam 2 by José Ferrándiz, which is followed by Michael Kamen’s Robin Hood, Prince of thieves. The concert will end with Laundrisen’s O Magnum Misteryum, and finally A pedra da Serpe, by José Luis Represas.

The second Primavera Musical 2020 concert will be held at 11:30 am on 8 March and will include the following groups: C. R. Unión Musical Aida (San Andrés) with 28 musicians, C. M. Princesa Yaiza (El Rosario) 29 musicians and M. Nivaria de Arafo with 88. For the full list of concerts and participating bands please visit www.auditoriodetenerife.com

The Sumrrá  jazz trio is presenting on the island their latest work, 6 Mulleres, a feminist tribute to great women in history. Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero, has included this concert in Jazz Atlántico on 6 April at 9:00 pm. Tickets are now on sale.

In their new and sixth album, 6 Mulleres, Sumrrá pays tribute to six powerful women who were and still are a source of inspiration in the fight for a better future for humanity: Frida Kahlo from México, Rosa Parks from the US, Rosalía de Castro from Spain, Quin Jin from China, Malala Yousafsai from  Pakistan and Nawal El-Saadawi from Egypt. 6 Mulleres is a contribution to the feminist struggle from 21st century contemporary music.

Sumrrá, made up by pianist Manuel Gutiérrez, double bass Xacobe Martínez Antelo, and drummer L.A.R. Legido, has a nineteen-year career and six published records, apart from hundreds of concerts that have made them a leading band in the Spanish current jazz scene.

Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday except holidays; on www.auditoriodetenerife.com  or calling 902 317 327.

From its beginnings in 2000, Sumrrá captivated both critics and audiences with an unclassifiable, melodic and very open jazz of very original compositions, quality musicians and fresh live performances.

Manuel Gutiérrez, self-taught pianist, has done courses and seminars with Bill Dobbins, Dave Schnietter and Barry Harris. With the project Tandem he was finalist at the XI Festival Internacional de Getxo competition, and from 1988 to 1993 he took part in projects like Jazztaì, Sausalito Jazz Band and Salvador Font "Mantequilla” Quinteto. He usually collaborates with musicians of all kinds of styles and from many different countries.

Xacobe Martìnez Antelo has eclectically taught himself since he was thirteen and has an interest in rock, blues, world music and jazz. He has taken part in more than thirty records and is currently one of the most prolific and versatile figures in Galicia jazz.

Drummer L.A.R Legido studied with Pedro López, Belma Muñor, Markus Breuss and Wade Matthews, mainly focusing on research and improvisation. He has collaborated with different artists and projects approaching styles that range from folk and flamenco to improvisation and jazz.

At present, these three musicians have built unique, original and creative music with an accent on freedom and improvisation. As Xacobe Martínez Antelo pointed out, "we have no pre-established models because the way we work occurs in the composition itself which leads to the development of the group, our roles and the collective sound".

In their concerts they present a characteristic sound of their own, full of strength and dramatism that comes with a good deal of technique, lyricism, swing and even humour. Apart from the many concerts they have given in Galicia and other parts of the Iberian Peninsula, Sumrrá has also been very well-received internationally in their tours in  Bolivia, Portugal, Bulgaria, France, Morocco, South Korea, South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, China or Nicaragua.

Tenor José Manuel Zapata is leading the Sinfónica de Tenerife for the first time with the show Concierto para Zapata y Orquesta. He will go over and parody the clichés and labels applied to classical music. This ninth subscription concert in the 2019-2020 season is taking place at 7:30 pm on Thursday, the 20th in the Auditorio de Tenerife, managed by Cabildo de Tenerife’s department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport, which is led by councillor Concepción Rivero.

This new performance by the Tenerife orchestra, which is based on actor Danny Kaye’s shows with US orchestras that combined music and comedy, will also feature the staging of Tricicle’s Paco Mir, and Juan Francisco Padilla as musical director and arranger.

As it coincides with the Carnival festivities in the city, the programme, which the conductor himself defined as “festive, good fun and teasing”, includes a broad repertoire encompassing different periods, composers and styles. It is a formula that introduces humorously scores that the general public know well. 

Tickets for this subscription concert can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; by phone on 902 317 327; or via the internet on www.sinfonicadetenerife.es and www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

The Granada conductor and tenor José Manuel Zapata started his singing studies in Madrid with Toñi Rosado Casas, and improved them at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia. Shortly after, he began singing as a soloist and in 2002 he started to perform on major international stages including New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, Teatro Real de Madrid, Teatro del Liceo de Barcelona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Dresden Semper Oper, Reggio Di Parma, Massimo de Palermo, Rossini Opera Festival, Teâtre Chatelet, Champs Elysees in Paris or Teather An der Wien.

As author, this versatile artist has written and co-directed the following shows: Óperame, Los Divinos, El hombre que se llamaba Amadeus and Barrockeros. He also collaborates in different radio and TV programmes where he encourages the spread of classical music through his professional experience.

The Auditorio de Tenerife organises a  workshop on stage design by architect and expert set designer Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda. This cultural space is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by Councillor Concepción Rivero. The course runs from 16th to 18th March from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda has a long career in theatre set design having worked in both classical and contemporary repertoires, in addition to other genres of the performing arts like dance, zarzuela, opera or musicals.

This workshop, with limited places available, is recommended for theatre studies students or stage design professionals. The enrolment fee is 30 euros, and to enrol you need to send your CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The workshop will deal with basic topics to handle a project, taking as reference Maurice Ravel’s L'heure espagnole. It is a short, amusing, and simple opera ideal to go over the whole stage process step by step.

On the first day, general issues will be dealt with such as the general approach to a creative stage process, the director-stage designer relationship plus text analysis and dramaturgy applied to the stage.

The second day, the approach chosen will be applied to the text including its analysis, points of view, influence of the space on the story and the stage, real space and space-time applied to the text.

On the third day the practical proposals applied to the chosen text will be discussed; you will learn the rudiments of the psychologic view of space; we’ll discuss the antagonist space and the proposals made will be assessed before reaching a conclusion.

Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid specialising in building. He has worked for major national and international opera houses in works like El pintor de Colomer (stage director A. Boadella, Teatros del Canal), Der Kaiser von Atlantis by Ullmann (G. Tambascio, Teatro Real, Madrid), Brundibár by Krása (S. Gómez, Teatro Real, Madrid), Verdi’s Don Carlo  (A. Boadella, Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial), La bohème by Puccini (A. Romero, Denmark National Opera), Giordano’s Andrea Chenier (A. Romero, Festival Castell de Peralada), Idomeneo by Mozart (J. Lavelli, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires), etc.

He has designed the sets for the musicals Billy Elliot (D. Serrano, stage director), Cabaret (J. Azpilicueta), Sunset Boulevard (J. Azpilicueta), Hoy no me puedo levantar (D. Ottone), Sonrisas y lágrimas (J. Azpilicueta) and Más de 100 mentiras (D. Serrano), among others.

His works for the theatre include Divinas palabras by Valle-Inclán (G. Vera, stage director), Shelley’s Frankenstein (G. Tambascio), Lúcido by Spregelburd (A. Ochandiano), Antigone by Sophocles (M. García Lozano), The Miser by Molière (J. Lavelli), Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (A. Ochandiano), Splendid's by Genet (J. C. Plaza) and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (T. Townsend), among many others.

He has also worked with the Ballet Nacional de España [Spanish National Ballet] in The Heart of Jade (choreography by J. Antonio) and Negro Goya (J. Antonio). He has designed the sets for El amor brujo / El sombrero de tres picos (C. Vilán, Bucharest National Opera House), Baile de máscaras (Rojas y Rodríguez), El bestiario (N. Castejón), El amor brujo (M. Carrasco) and A Floresta do Amazonas (B. Cezario, Teatro Amazonas, Manaos).

Javier Laso will play Pianísimo, the new concert of the Creativa Música Panhispánica [Pan-Hispanic Creative Music]. The recital will be on Sunday, the 16th at 12:00 noon at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara. This venue is under the Department for Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, led by councillor Concepción Rivero.

In the first part of the concert, Javier Laso will play Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin by Federico Mompou (1893-1987, Barcelona). After the break comes Fantasia baetica by Manuel de Falla (1876, Cádiz- 1946, Argentina) followed by Danzas argentinas, Danza del viejo boyero, Danza de la moza donosa and Danza del gaucho matrero by Alberto Ginastera (1916, Buenos Aires-1983, Geneva). The concert closes with Cantos canarios by Teobaldo Power (1848, Santa Cruz de Tenerife-1884, Madrid).

Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday, except holidays, via www.auditoriodetenerife.com  or calling 902 317 327. The box office will also open two hours before the concert starts.

Javier Laso was born in 1975 in Fribourg, Switzerland. He graduated with “Extraordinario de Piano” from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy. He received different grants from the Fundación Caixa Girona, Fundación Isaac Albéniz, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and has won several awards in different competitions including Frechilla-Zuloaga (Valladolid), María Canals (Barcelona) and First Prize and Extraordinary Prize at Gran Canaria’s Pedro Espinosa competition.

As a soloist he has performed in France, Girona, Salamanca, and Tenerife, and has collaborated with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla-León, Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Cartagena, Orquesta Sinfónica de Sant Cugat and Orquesta Joven de Salamanca. His recordings include works by Scriabin, Schubert, Debussy and Bartok (RNE), M. Bonín’s sonatas or J.S Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He has been a teacher at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca and teaches piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias since 2001.

The last concert in the series, Lírica, is taking place on the 14 March at 7:30 pm. The voice of Rosina Herrera and Nauzet Mederos’s piano will perform compositions by Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989, Madrid), Antón G. Abril (1933, Teruel), Blanca Báez (1920-2018, Canary Islands), Luis Cobiella (1925-2013, La Palma), Isaac Albéniz (1860, Spain-1909, France), Lothar Siemens (1941-2017, Gran Canaria), Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000, Argentina) and Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959, Rio de Janeiro).

Auditorio de Tenerife and Asociación Tinerfeña de Amigos de la Música (Atadem) [Tenerife Friends of Music Association] present this new series with the aim of spreading unusual music on the Island. It is coordinated by Conrado Álvarez and Rosario Álvarez is the artistic director.  Ms. Álvarez explained that they will approach “music by Canarian composers and Latin American music, as very little of their huge piano, singing or chamber repertoires is known here”.