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Auditorio de Tenerife and the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme offer five specialist training courses for technicians

Auditorio de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, and the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme start their third Courses on Live Show Production. The first one, on the analysis of acoustic systems, started yesterday Monday, the 2nd, and is taught by Mateu Coll Morey, who gives seminars and technical support at the company Meyer Sound.

The island director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz, said that “this is the third time both institutions jointly offer this specialist training for the island’s technicians. The courses improve the professional skills and job opportunities of the young in addition to widening the work options for the veterans”.

Esther Martel, director of the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, pointed out the importance of this training programme, which they have offered with Auditorio de Tenerife for three years now and that “reflects the commitment of the Fundación with the cultural sector of the islands, the professionals, especially at this complex times due to the pandemic”.

Martel encouraged students and professionals of the island “to make the most of this impasse due to COVID-19 and turn it into an opportunity to improve their knowledge and make their way into Canarian show business, by taking part in these courses, which are taught by professionals with wide experience both on the islands and mainland Spain”.

The welcoming event was attended by the manager of Auditorio de Tenerife, Daniel Cerezo, and the coordinator of the Tenerife office of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, José Martín Guerrero. The teacher, Mateu Coll, said it was the first course he was teaching after the beginning of the health crisis last March and encouraged the students to participate in the classes.

In 2020 there are five intensive courses on artistic-technical subjects available. The aim is to improve the knowledge of both the islands’ entertainment professionals and students. After the course on Acoustics Systems I and II, comes a course in lighting for theatre, musicals and dance; a course in stage management for live shows; course in video techniques applied to stage design and a foundation course in technical production. 

The courses will be held at Auditorio de Tenerife facilities that will make available all the technical, material, and human resources needed. Every speaker in the courses are professionals who have previously collaborated with the Auditorio de Tenerife, have wide experience in their field and know the working context of shows both on the islands and in mainland Spain. 

Thanks to the collaboration of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, and taking into account the special circumstances due to COVID-19, the courses have a discount, so enrolment for professionals is 30 € + IGIC per person and course for a maximum of seven people; students and unemployed, free with eight places available. Enrolment is still open and there are only 15 places available. 

For more information on each course, teachers, subjects and enrolment please visit Auditorio de Tenerife on the following link  //auditoriodetenerife.com/educational-and-social-area.

The British conductor replaces Lucas Macías and has clarinettist Maximiliano Martín as guest soloist

The Sinfónica de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is giving its fourth season concert on Friday the 6th at 7:30 pm in Auditorio de Tenerife. Conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguir is making her debut with the Tenerife ensemble, replacing conductor Lucas Macías. On this occasion the guest soloist is clarinettist Maximiliano Martín Lechado.

The Cabildo’s ensemble will play with the current reduced orchestra a programme featuring Quiet City and Clarinet Concerto, both by Aaron Copland and Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony nº 4 in B flat major, op 60.

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

To enjoy this cultural experience please make sure you arrive at the venue with time enough to enter the auditorium gradually. Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Auditorio de Tenerife to deal with COVID-19, with no exceptions or reservations, including wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with.  The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

North American Aaron Copland pens two of the pieces in the concert. The first one was written in 1940 for Irwin Shaw‘s theatre play of the same title about the conflicts of Gabriel Mellon, a middle-aged businessman. The composer displays a creativity where the constructive weight lies on the English horn and the trumpet. A sound metaphor, the trumpet seems to represent the longing for a better life in which Mellon would have fulfilled his dream of being a poet while the English horn evokes the reality he has been led to. 

Clarinet Concerto was a commission for jazz star Benny Goodman and was first played in 1950 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The author explores this instrument with the intention of eliminating the artificial division between “popular and learned”. He challenges the established canon and gives more weight to the string section, which recalls the typical sound of a jazz orchestra. 

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Symphony nº 4 in B flat major, op 60 during the summer and autumn of 1806. There was great expectation as his Third Symphony (Eroica) had been very well received. The success of the score lies in “extracting the maximum out of a very simple material”, as Brahms described it. So, in the development there is a highly contrasted tonality where time seems to stop and expand.  

British Catherine Larsen-Maguire has been exclusively concentrated on orchestra conducting since 2012, after gaining a thorough knowledge of the repertoire and an understanding of the orchestra’s psychology. 

Larsen-Maguire read Music at the University of Cambridge and studied the bassoon at London Royal Academy of Music and at the Karajan Academy in Berlin. In 1996 she took the top prize in the Prague Spring Bassoon Competition.

The orchestras she has conducted include  Bremen, Magdeburg, Augsburg and Nuremburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra plus the orchestras of the Sunflower and Buzzards Bay festivals in the United States and the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, in Mexico.

Clarinettist Maximiliano Martín, currently soloist at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has performed in prestigious venues including the BBC Proms Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Library of Congress in Washington, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Slovenia Radio Auditorium in Ljubljana, Durban City Hall in South Africa, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Teatro Monumental in Madrid, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or the Auditorio Principe Felipe in Oviedo.

Martín has performed solo with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Real Filarmonía de Galicia, Filarmónica de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Macedonian Philharmonic, with conductors like Brüggen, Ticciati, Antonini, Swensen, Zacharias or González. He regularly collaborates with ensembles and artists such as the London Conchord Ensemble, Cuarteto Casals, Francois Leleux, Pekka Kuusisto, Alexander Janiczek and Julian Milford.

The Canarian group is presenting a contemporary jazz multimedia show at the Sala de Cámara on Friday

Auditorio de Tenerife, a performing arts venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, welcomes the presentation concert of Out, the new work by Alexis Alonso Quartet on Friday, the 30th. The band, nominated for Best Jazz record of the year at different competitions, will start playing at 8:00 pm at the Sala de Cámara. Tickets are now on sale at the standard rate of 15 euros with discounts are available. You can buy them up to two hours before the show starts. 

Alexis Alonso Quartet presents their multimedia contemporary jazz show, Out, where you can enjoy a first-rate string and wind band. Sensitive and masterful Ciro Hernández at the cello along with the versatile and talented Moisés García playing the double bass plus Roberto Amor’s drums, one of the great names in Canarian jazz. Cello, double bass and drums will sail across virtuoso pianist Alexis Alonso, who seeks to connect with and thrill the audience. 

International jazz figures like saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpetist Ralph Alessi and percussionist Pedrito Martínez take part in Out, a collaboration that is a great opportunity for the Canarian ensemble to grow internationally, although they are already attracted the praised of specialised press. 

In this new studio work, Alexis Alonso Quartet continues the path taken in their previous records In (2018) and Live in Barcelona – Jamboree Live 19 (2019). The latter was recorded in Barcelona’s iconic Jamboree Jazz, one of Europe’s jazz temples that named Alexis Alonso Quartet an outstanding performance, deserving to have their album publish in their own label (Jamboree Live). 

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

This co-production between Spain, France and Canada will reach us on Sunday, starring Mal Pelo’s Pep Ramis

On Sunday, the 1^st at 7:30 pm the Sala de Cámara of  Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is hosting The Mountain, the Truth & the Paradise. This contemporary dance show is part of the Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM. You can buy tickets, at a single price of 8 euros, up to two hours before the performance starts. 

This is a co-production of Catalonian company Mal Pelo with Festival de Tardor de Catalunya Temporada Alta 2017, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, France, and Agora de la Danse in Montreal, Canada.

The piece emerges from the need the protagonist, dancer Pep Ramis, felt to building a very personal fiction, to update the experience of his latest work and research in his present artistic interests. Working solo at 50 also involves revisiting the tools gathered throughout a long career creating for the stage. 

The Mountain, the Truth & the Paradise is a poetic world that wonders about the meaning of the divine and the vulgar, spirituality and ignorance, beauty and banality. The performer’s ability to transform in a blank, empty space and the accuracy of gestures and the voice are the fundamental lines in the dramaturgy of a piece that displays a changing, exciting, highly stimulating journey. 

Throughout the creative process, Ramis has had the collaboration of Jordi Casanovas and María Muñoz as directors, August Viladomat in the lighting design and Fanny Thollot who penned the soundtrack. 

Dancer, actor and stage director, Pep Ramis has been a member of Mal Pelo, along with María Muñoz since 1989. The dance company bases its work on the constant search of languages, which they have used to create countless shows that have toured the world and have won major prizes. In 2001 they promoted the centre for creation and interchange with other art forms L’animal a l’esquena. 

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

The next FAM show this year is on 6 December with Lava Compañía de Danza’s new piece: Kick the bucket, a choreography by Iván Pérez. Auditorio de Tenerife’s company will also perform Bending the walls, a production of Korzo Theater and Nederlands Dans Theater. You can see all the information on www.famtenerife.com.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. 

Collaborators with FAM include the Government of the Canary Islands plus the Spanish Theatre Network’s Danza a Escena scheme, and of the Circuito Acieloabierto of the street and unusual places dance network, both under the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s INAEM. The festival has the European Union EFFE label, (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) a quality mark that is granted to festivals with an artistic mission, commitment to local communities and strategic vision at European level. 

The Ciclo de Cámara welcomes this flute, violin, viola and cello ensemble that will play Haydn, Hummel, Krommer and Mozart

The Ciclo de Cámara [Chamber Music series] of Auditorio de Tenerife, venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, welcomes on Thursday, the 29^th at 7:30 pm the concert Temperamentos by the Ensemble Hespérides. Tickets cost 15 euros and there are discounts available. You can buy them on https://auditoriodetenerife.com

The Ensemble Hespérides, that is playing at the Auditorio de Tenerife for the second time, is made up by Raquel Martorell, flute; David Ballesteros, violin; Macarena Pesutiç, viola; and Kathleen Balfe, cello. The repertoire includes London trio n.1 C Major by Joseph Haydn, Trio Eb Major s.30 by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Flute quartet in F Major op.17 by Franz Krommer and Flute quartet in C Major k.285b by Wolfang Amadeus Mozart.

The title of the programme refers to the musical tuning systems. Since the Baroque period, irregular temperaments (French and German) gave each tonality special emotional characteristics, a fact that went on until the classical period, although equal temperament was gradually adopted until it became the norm in Western music during Classicism. This fact shows how stable the composition style was in this period: regular, balanced phrases whose difficulty lies on how tricky it is to convey all it comprises, although it is done with the naturalness and simplicity of a geometric shape that is apparently basic but has a wealth of content.

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

La directora Anna Rakitina y el trompeta Manuel Blanco abordarán obras de Mozart, Hummel y Beethoven

La Sinfónica de Tenerife, que depende del Área de Cultura del Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, dirigido por el consejero Enrique Arriaga, responde al éxito de ventas de su próximo concierto de temporada, doblando función, que serán el jueves [día 29] y el viernes [día 30] a las 19:30 horas en el Auditorio de Tenerife. La directora Anna Rakitina debutará al frente de la formación tinerfeña abordando un programa compuesto por piezas de Mozart, Hummel y Beethoven. En esta ocasión el solista invitado será el trompeta Manuel Blanco.

La Orquesta del Cabildo interpretará, bajo la vigente fórmula orquestal reducida, La flauta mágica, Obertura, KV 620 de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Concierto para trompeta y orquesta en Mi mayor de Johann Nepomuk Hummel y Sinfonía nº 5 en Do menor, op 67 de Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Tras agotarse las localidades para el tercer concierto de la temporada 2020/2021, que tendrá lugar el viernes, ya pueden adquirirse las entradas para la segunda función, la del jueves, en la página web www.auditoriodetenerife.com y de forma telefónica 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, excepto festivos. También se pueden conseguir, en el mismo horario, en taquilla solicitando cita previa en //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar y en el 922 568 625, de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 14:00 horas, excepto festivos.

Para disfutar de esta experiencia cultural es necesario llegar al recinto con antelación suficiente para realizar una entrada escalonada a la sala. La compra de las entradas supone la aceptación de las medidas implementadas por el centro cultural del Cabildo para hacer frente a la COVID-19, como el uso de la mascarilla o la asistencia solo con convivientes. Las medidas al completo, así como el plan de contingencia certificado por AENOR, se pueden consultar en la web del Auditorio. Tanto la cafetería GastroMag como el parking están disponibles.

La Obertura KV 620 de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart es el tema que da inicio a su última ópera, La flauta mágica (1791), un fragmento que fue terminado tan sólo unos días antes de su estreno. La obra completa es un auténtico compendio de símbolos musicales relacionados con la masonería, reflejados en la tonalidad de Mi bemol mayor junto a Do menor, repetidos a lo largo de esta partitura; o en los tres acordes iniciales cuyo ritmo imita la triple llamada a la puerta del templo masónico en el rito iniciático. La melodía no es original de Mozart, sino que proviene de la Sonata para piano en Si bemol mayor, op. 24 nº 2 escrita una década antes, por el también masón, Muzio Clementi; siendo adaptada por el genio de Salzburgo a su característica escritura.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel firma el Concierto para trompeta y orquesta en Mi mayor, una creación de resonancias mozartianas con un lenguaje y orquestación completamente clásicos. El vitalista Allegro con spirito se trata de una extensa introducción dominada por el enérgico primer tema, que avanza entre estructuras vigorosas, hasta desembocar en un exigente Rondó final que requiere de una gran agilidad técnica por parte del solista. Hummel quiso mostrar con esta creación todas las posibilidades del nuevo instrumento inventado por Weidinger.

Sinfonía nº 5 en Do menor, op 67 de Ludwig Van Beethoven es una composición que resulta de un largo proceso de creación, entre 1804 y 1808, periodo que coincide con las guerras napoleónicas y la agitación política en Austria. Este tema posee una escritura dinámica y robusta, presentando un amplio abanico de experiencias sensitivas que abarcan desde la sonata del primer movimiento, al pastoral del segundo movimiento o el sorprendente cierre donde se escucha al unísono la orquesta en la brillante tonalidad de Do mayor.

La moscovita Anna Rakitina atesora una prometedora carrera como directora, tal como avalan los recientes reconocimientos internacionales recibidos en el Malko Conducting Competition en Copenhague (2018), “Deutscher Dirigentenpreis” Competition en Colonia (2017) o el TCO International Conducting Competition en Taipei (2015).

El trompeta ciudadrealeño Manuel Blanco alcanza su primer reconocimiento internacional en el prestigioso ARD Music Competition de Munich (2011) al obtener la calificación más alta de la historia de la competición. También ha conquistado diversos concursos como el Ciudad de Xátiva, Calviá, Moixent, Jeju (Corea del Sur). Como concertista, ha tocado con la Orquesta de la Radio de Baviera, Orquesta de la Radio de Munich, Philarmonisches Orchester Würzburg en Mozarfest, Hofer Symphoniker, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock o la Orquesta Nacional de España.

Marcos Vargas’s and Chloé Brûle’s company perform this choral score in seven movements

The 2020 Special FAM presents Los cuerpos celestes, a flamenco-inspired journey across the universe penned by Marcos Vargas’s and Chloé Brûle’s company. The show takes place on Monday, the 26th at 8:30 pm at the Sala Sinfónica of Auditorio de Tenerife, a venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga.

Los cuerpos celestes is a sensory journey from the ethereal to the corporeal that offers a series of landscapes where the five performers meet and get together to find out what the indefinable is. Through duos, trios, quartets, and quintets the artists reflect on the place they each have in relation to the other. 

Judging by the rich contrasts between flamenco and electronic music, the Sevillian company makes up a fresco about human beings in which every individual is a fundamental though insignificant piece on the great universal board. 

Since 2005 Vargas & Brûlé have made up a creative team that has a language of their own taken from flamenco and dance. They have been included in the most relevant national programmes and have shown their work at major international events. 

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. 

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Será la primera vez en España que suene esta misa de Donizetti en un espacio no religioso y lo hará con 45 músicos de la Sinfónica, 23 coralistas y 5 cantantes solistas

Auditorio de Tenerife’s dance company starts their Spanish tour that includes Barcelona, Málaga, Valencia and A Coruña

Lava, Auditorio de Tenerife’s dance company, will visit several Spanish cities this autumn with their double programme Bending the Walls, by choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan, and Beyond, by Virginia García and Damián Muñoz of La intrusa. Their first engagement is at the Sant Andreu Teatre SAT in Barcelona where Lava is performing today, Thursday the 22nd at 8:30 pm as part of the Catalonian theatre’s 2020/2021 dance season.

The tour of the dance company of Auditorio, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is taking place in October and November. Barcelona, Málaga, Valencia and A Coruña will welcome Lava, that started rehearsing on 12 October at Auditorio’s Sala Castillo meeting all the safety and hygiene measures. “The participation of Auditorio de Tenerife’s company in this national tour is a very interesting platform to consolidate their project”, the Cabildo’s councillor of culture Enrique Arriaga pointed out. He also said that “even with the restrictions and at the difficult time culture is going through, we wish to support participations that reinforce the work of projects like our company’s on stages where they can show their work”.

The autumn tour goes on next Monday, the 26th at 8:00 pm at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga, where Lava will take part in the Festival Danza Málaga 2020. On 10th November, the Canarian dance company will reach Valencia to perform at the city’s Teatro Principal at 10:00 pm. This time they are included in the programme of the 2020 Ciclo Dansa València that should have been held in March but had to be put off due to the health crisis. 

A Coruña is the last destination of Lava’s autumn tour. On 13 November they will dance their double programme at the Teatro Rosalía de Castro at 8:30 pm as part of the venue’s contemporary dance regular programme. The dancers taking part in the tour are Fabiana Mangialardi, Emiliana Battista Marino, Amanda Rubio, Javier de la Asunción, Javier Arozena and Adrián Díaz.

Bending the Walls is an exploration of the world of restrictions and limitations in the search for happiness, freedom and understanding. Through this piece, the physical and psychological limits of the individual and the surrounding world are explored. It is a metaphor about the psychological, physical, and emotional forces human beings can approach in order to reach beyond palpable reality, overcome sorrow and escape into the world of the imagination. 

Beyond deals with the experience of searching through the emotional landscapes of memory, presenting a scenario full of uncertainties, which forces us to create or reflect on our own life and on the landscape every individual shapes for themselves either consciously or unconsciously.

Lava Compañía de Danza is a project of Auditorio de Tenerife that was set up in 2018, under the artistic direction of Tenerife-born dancer and creator Daniel Abreu (Premio Nacional de Danza 2014), to boost contemporary creation. It focuses on building a repertoire of works by renowned international artists. 

The six dancers have a strong stage presence, are technically proficient and versatile to bring creations to life that share contemporary dance language plus other codes of the current artistic discourse. Physicality, poetry, and commitment. These pieces have already attracted a wide audience and are creating new ones through the experience of dance and its context. 

Soprano Rosina Herrera and pianist Nauzet Mederos perform works by Spanish-speaking composers from both sides of the Atlantic 

Auditorio de Tenerife, a venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, presents the concert Lírica. De orilla a orilla, the third and last one in the Creativa Música Panhispánica series [Panhispanic Creative Music]. The performance is on Sunday, the 25th at 12:00 noon at the Sala de Cámara. The programme, played by two Canarian artists, includes works by Spanish-speaking composers from different countries and periods, from the 19th century to the present, including pieces by Canarian creators. 

The voice of soprano Rosina Herrera joins Nauzet Mederos’s piano to interpret scores by Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989, Madrid), Blanca Báez (1920-2018, the Canaries), 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).

This programme was originally scheduled for 14 March 2020 but had to be postponed due to the measures applied by the authorities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Tickets were reimbursed at the time and you can now enjoy this quite unusual repertoire. 

Tickets can be booked up to two hours before the show starts on website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

You can also make an appointment on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us to come to the box office Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 2:00 pm except holidays, and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. 

Auditorio de Tenerife and Asociación Tinerfeña de Amigos de la Música (Atadem) organise this three-concert series with the purpose of showing quite unusual music on the island. It is coordinated by Conrado Álvarez and Rosario Álvarez as artistic director, who explains that “there is a wide range of piano, vocal and chamber repertoires from America that have been composed using their own regional languages, which are the result of the development of each area after Independence”. 

Nómada and Provisional Danza companies to perform Carmen Werner’s choreography on Wednesday at 8:30 pm

FAM Special 2020 presents Instrucciones para mejorar la vida [Instructions to improve life] by the companies Nómada and Provisional Danza on Wednesday 21 October at 8:30 pm. The tickets for this show included in the Cabildo’s festival, promoted by the Department of Culture under councillor Enrique Arriaga, cost eight euros and can be booked on www.famtenerife.com.

Set in a spring afternoon, Carmen Werner’s choreography is the result of the joint work of companies Nómada and Provisional Danza with music by Luis Martínez. Four working senior performers and choreographers get together in Instrucciones para mejorar la vida, a piece that explores how to make everyday life easier through simple actions. Smiling at a difficult time or changing a light bulb safely are some of the topics it deals with. 

With more than 30 years on the stage, Provisional Danza is a company set up by Carmen Werner that has put on hundreds of creations in Europe, Asia and America. Werner has been the heavyweight teacher of current dancers and choreographers who are now in many contemporary dance shows. 

For their part, Nómada was established in 2000 and its main goal is to bring contemporary dance to all kinds of audiences and venues. Based at Teatro Victoria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, their work acts as a platform to experiment. 

Members of the audience are kindly asked to arrive early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask throughout the show. 

FAM’s next show is Los cuerpos celestes. Partitura coral en siete movimientos by Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé at the Sala Sinfónica on Monday, the 26th. Please find more information on www.famtenerife.com.

Desde las 17:30 horas del sábado se podrá disfrutar de las representaciones en la Plaza Alisios

Auditorio de Tenerife, espacio cultural que depende del Área de Cultura del Cabildo de Tenerife que dirige el consejero Enrique Arriaga, ofrece este sábado [17 de octubre] a partir de las 17:30 horas cinco espectáculos de danza al aire libre. Estas funciones del Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM tendrán lugar en la Plaza Alisios, en la trasera del edificio. Las entradas están a la venta hasta dos horas antes del comienzo de la primera función al precio de dos euros por función.

Expectations will not kill you, de la compañía OSA+MUJIKA, será el primer espectáculo de la jornada. La obra es una reflexión sobre el fracaso y la frustración que interpretarán Raymond Naval y Jaiotz Osa desde las 17:30 horas. Inspirado en las pruebas de arrastre de bueyes tradicionales del País Vasco, el espectáculo IDI-BEGI de la compañía Proyecto Larrua se podrá ver en el exterior del auditorio capitalino a las 18:00 horas. 

Colectivo Glovo presentará a las 18:30 horas su coreografía Mapa, que toma como referentes las fronteras y los refugiados para investigar sobre las posibilidades del movimiento. Los catalanes Iron Skulls Co presentan en FAM a las 19:00 horas su obra Kintsugi, una filosofía japonesa que reivindica la estética de la imperfección al igual que la técnica de la que tome su nombre. 

Por último, la danza contemporánea con influencias de lo urbano de Young Blood cerrarán la jornada en el exterior del Auditorio de Tenerife a las 19:30 horas. El tiempo es el leitmotiv de esta coreografía que firma Arnau Pérez de la Fuente. 

Toda la información sobre la programación y las entradas puede consultarse en www.famtenerife.com. Estos espectáculos al aire libre forman parte de Acieloabierto, la Red de Festivales de Danza Contemporánea en Espacios No Convencionales, un proyecto del INAEM del Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de España

Se ruega al público llegar con antelación suficiente para realizar una entrada escalonada. La compra de las entradas supone la aceptación de las medidas implementadas por el centro cultural del Cabildo para hacer frente a la COVID-19, como el uso correcto de la mascarilla. Las medidas al completo, así como el plan de contingencia certificado por AENOR, se pueden consultar en la web del Auditorio.

Los abonos para las cinco funciones están agotados. Las entradas de cada espectáculo se pueden adquirir en la página web www.auditoriodetenerife.com y de forma telefónica 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, excepto festivos. También se pueden conseguir acudiendo a taquilla con cita previa de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábados de 10:00 a 14:00 horas, excepto festivos. La cita para acudir a taquilla se puede pedir en //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar y en el 922 568 625, donde también se pueden resolver dudas, de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 14:00 horas, excepto festivos.

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