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Opera (e)Studio singers are offering an opera recital at Paraninfo in Universidad de La Laguna on Tuesday, 9^th October at 7:30 pm. Seventeen arias by different composers are to be sung by the members of the 6^th learning academy fostered by Ópera de Tenerife. This recital is part of the collaboration agreement between Auditorio de Tenerife and Universidad de La Laguna. The singers are also giving a recital at Auditorio de Arafo on Thursday, 11th at 7:30 pm. Admission to both recitals is free.

The programme includes interpreting six arias from Rossini’s The Italian in Algiers. From 25 to 28 October, this opera will be put on at Sala Sinfónica of Auditorio de Tenerife to open the new Ópera de Tenerife season. At the Paraninfo recital, eleven more arias from different operas will be interpreted too, including Anna Boleyn, Don Giovanni, Romeo and Juliet.

Hana Lee is accompanying pianist in both programmes which include the following singers: Maria Ostroukhova, Milos Bulajic, Matías Moncada, Gianni Giuga, Francesco Samuele Venuti, Inés Lorans, Sophie Burns, Vittoria Vimercati, Biao Li, Aleksandr Utkin, Esteban Baltazar, Anna Kabrera and Jorge Eleazar Álvarez.

The Opera (e)Studio singers arrived on the Island in early September and they have attended training sessions on different aspects in addition to master classes by the artistic director of Opera (e)Studio, Giulio Zappa; by soprano Mariella Devia; by musical director, Nikolas Nagele, and by Ópera de Tenerife’s intendant, Alejandro Abrante.

The Festival Internacional de las Artes del Movimiento de Tenerife (FAM), [Tenerife Movement Arts International Festival] through their  FAM Kids programme, is taking the family dance show Drakaina Draco y las 7 semillas mágicas [Drakaina Draco and the 7 magic seeds] to four municipalities on the Island. It is a show for Pre-school and Primary School children to be performed in October in the towns of Guía de Isora, Los Cristianos, El Sauzal and Tacoronte.

The show by Unidad Didáctica de Tenerife Danza, directed by Helena Berthelius, can be seen at Auditorio de Guía de Isora on Tuesday, 9th at 11:00 am. It will then be put on at Auditorio Infanta Leonor in Arona on 16th October at 10:00 am. In the last week of the month, Drakaina Draco’s adventures can be enjoyed in Pirámide El Sauzal, on 23rd at 11:00 am and the following day at Auditorio Capitol in Tacoronte at 10:00 am. The play is about three friends, Drakaina Draco (played by Guacimara Gil), Arbustus Robustus (Mathías Pérez) and Stelli Maris (Irene Álvarez), who are determined to find the original dragon tree seeds on the seven islands. They want to recover an old dragon tree farm, an endangered thermophile forest.

The play is for the youngest in the family and it aims to encourage environmental awareness through dancing, singing and a funny performance that is sure to attract their attention. Drakaina Draco and the 7 magic seeds was first performed in April at Auditorio de Tenerife for schools and the general public. It then went on to the eastern islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria. 

The Festival Internacional de las Artes del Movimiento de Tenerife (FAM) [Tenerife Movement Arts International Festival] opened on Sunday, 7 October with two shows in the street which were held at the harbour by Casa de la Aduana in Puerto de la Cruz. The two pieces performed were To be and Un poco de nadie. Different shows on the streets, venues and for families will be put on until 22 December.

To be, by Madrid company Physical Momentum, depicts memorable experiences in a shared moment. It reflects on the way we live, on what makes and shapes us, which is just our proposal to live in an ever-changing moment. After this show, Canarian Carmen Fumero and Miguel Ballabriga put on Un poco de nadie, which is about trying unsuccessfully, about anonymity, being a nobody, because someone was once a nobody who had a strong will and made it. The choreography does tell someone’s story.

On 21 October, FAM continues with Business World at the foyer of Auditorio de Tenerife 8:30 pm; 9 November with I U in Plaza Ireneo González in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; on 11 November with Labranza in Tegueste; on 18 November with Generation at Sala de Cámara in Auditorio de Tenerife; on 20 December with Allways at Caja Escénica in Auditorio de Tenerife; on 21 December at the same place with Ni contigo ni sin ti; and on 22 December with Noviembre at Caja Escénica in Auditorio.

In addition, FAM Kids will tour different municipalities of the Island in October. They are putting on the latest show by Unidad Didáctica de Tenerife Danza, Drakaina Draco y las 7 semillas mágicas. They will be in Guía de Isora on the 9^th, Arona on the 16^th, El Sauzal on 23^rd and on the 24^th they will be in Tacoronte

The Festival Canarias Jazz Showroom, directed by musician Kike Perdomo turns 10 and sets up CJS Reunion to mark the occasion. They are also publishing a record, offering seventeen concerts, four of which are held at Auditorio de Tenerife, and giving awards to the most outstanding jazz projects in the Canaries: the Premios Archipiélago al Jazz y la Música Moderna [Jazz & Modern Music Archipelago Awards].

The octet CJS Reunion was created as a tribute to the great jazz figures on the islands and is giving its first concert at 7:30 pm on Sunday at Sala de Cámara in Auditorio de Tenerife. The group is made up of seasoned musicians, leaders of jazz bands, like Kike Perdomo, Ramón Díaz, Idafe Pérez, David Quevedo, Tana Santana, Norberto Arteaga, Marcos Pérez, Yossi Itskovich and singer Esther Ovejero. Their repertoire includes pieces of the different bands members have been part of but they have also arranged songs from other Canarian jazz projects.

After the concert by CJS Reunion, awards will be given in four different categories: honorary prize for music career, prize for best original project, prize for best composition and prize for best soloist.  “Many projects have taken part in the festival throughout these ten years and we don’t want them to be forgotten, that’s why we thought of organising these awards”, Kike Perdomo explained.

On the other hand, the commemorative record will promote projects that have been at the festival. It will have 45 themes by different groups and in different styles, from classic to modern jazz, including Latin and fusion. “We’d like it to be a compilation, a catalogue of sorts so that when you listen to it, you get the idea of what jazz in the Canaries is like”, revealed the founder of Canarias Jazz Showroom, who is positive that “when you listen to it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by its level”.

More than one hundred projects have been on the stages of the Canarias Jazz Showroom. Its organisers are happy with the number because “the festival was set up to defend the value of Canarian artists as opposed to other festivals and we are having more and more new projects which are doing really well in mainland Spain”, Perdomo explained.

The Sala de Cámara at Auditorio is welcoming on Saturday, 6th at 7:30 pm Barreiro Project, a quintet led by Aarón Barreiro, a Canarian musician living in Barcelona, who have just published their first record, Good vibes. After Barreiro’s concert, the foyer is hosting Atcheré, who are presenting their record Mestizo at 9:00 pm. The group, which is one of the best Latin jazz-fusion bands in the Canaries, have five records in the market.

The concerts on Sunday 7th start at Sala de Cámara at 7:30 pm with  CJS Reunion, a project that was set up to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Canarias Jazz Showroom. The last concert of the 10th Canarias Jazz Showroom at Auditorio de Tenerife will take place at the foyer at 9:00 pm by Nicotine Swing, a group of swing/gipsy jazz whose record Nuevo, presented at Canarias Jazz Showroom last year, was awarded best jazz record 2017 in the Canaries.

Tickets for the concert taking place at Sala de Cámara are available through Auditorio de Tenerife usual sale channels, at the box office from 10:00 am to  7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; here or by phone on 902 317 327.

Festival de Tenerife started on Tuesday, 2 October with a presentation party held at Pescadería [Fishmonger’s] del Mercado de Nuestra Señora de África, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The event was attended by actors Josep María Pou and Isabel Ordaz, who play leading roles in the shows included in this second year of the festival.

Canarian comedians Abubukaka played master of ceremonies with an amusing show which tried to “sell the fish”, that is, the Festival programme. The event was also attended by the President of Cabildo, Carlos Alonso; the Island Director for Culture, José Luis Rivero, and the mayors of the cities of Santa Cruz and La Laguna: José Manuel Bermúdez and José Alberto Díaz, whose municipalities are host to all the shows this year. The festival starts on Thursday, 4^th October. 

Carlos Alonso stated that “at the Cabildo we have always been in favour of long-term culture and internationalization”. Cultural agents of the island were also present at the party. Josep Maria Pou recalled that precisely that day was the 50^th anniversary of his first stage performance and recognised that “I always have butterflies and that’s because we feel responsibility for the audience”. The Catalan actor will be in Tenerife in December to perform Moby Dick.

On her part, Isabel Ordaz also wanted to be at the opening of Festival de Tenerife. “I didn’t want to miss it, I wanted to give my support to the festival as a whole”, she pointed out. She’ll be back on the Island to perform He nacido para verte sonreír [I was born to see you smile] on 2 and 3 November at Teatro Guimerá.

The 2nd Festival de Tenerife has a wide and varied programme of theatre, dance, opera and circus, including street shows. Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna will enjoy 41 performances of 26 different national and international shows, including Canarian performers. In addition to Pou and Ordaz, the programme includes other great figures of the Spanish stage such as Toni Acosta, Pablo Derqui or Celso Albelo.

The first show is Luz de farol [Street Lamps] dance pieces created by Canarian dancers around street lamp lights. The show is starting in La Laguna On Thrusday, 4th at 9:00 pm with Flavio Miranda in Plaza Doctor Olivera; at 9:15 pm with Carlota Mantecón in Plaza de la Concepción and then Judith García Rojas and Juan Carlos Baeza at 9:30 pm in Calle Viana.

At the weekend, actor Albert Boadella will play himself in El sermón del bufón [The buffoon’s sermon] on 5 & 6 October at Teatro Guimerá. On Sunday, 7th La Laguna’s Teatro Leal welcomes Zenit, by Catalan company Els Joglars, a critical view of the path the media is going down. This is the programme of a festival that will close on 15 December.

El Cabildo presentó este martes 2 de octubre las instalaciones del Taller de formación y creación escénica del Auditorio de Tenerife, situadas en el Polígono el Mayorazgo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. El presidente de la Corporación Insular, Carlos Alonso; el director insular de Cultura, José Luis Rivero; y el jefe de producción técnica de Auditorio de Tenerife, Jorge Cabrera, dieron los detalles del nuevo espacio de trabajo que se utilizará para impartir formación y para la construcción de escenografías y demás procesos asociados de la creación artística.

Carlos Alonso explicó que “el Auditorio de Tenerife es el principal centro de producción artística cuya actividad el año pasado implicó a más de mil empresas, el 75% de ellas canarias y Ópera de Tenerife es uno de los principales proyectos, que ha puesto en pie una veintena de producciones propias desde 2012, la mayoría con una gira tras su estreno” y adelantó que en este nuevo espacio “formación, producción y creación se darán la mano”.

Para el presidente, los trabajadores del taller “no solo son buenos sino que son entusiastas con los proyectos y eso es importante”. Sobre este equipo José Luis Rivero aseguró que “contamos con unos trabajadores sobrecualificados, de los mejores profesionales en Canarias y por eso podemos trabajar de tú a tú en Europa y América”. El director insular insistió en que “en el camino hacia el desarrollo de la industria la calidad de los técnicos es fundamental”.

Jorge Cabrera, responsable del equipo que trabaja en las instalaciones, aseguró que “hoy es un día importante para nosotros porque estamos acostumbrados a ruedas de prensa en las que se presenta el resultado final pero hoy mostramos lo que ocurre antes y el elenco no son cantantes sino nuestros pintores, carpinteros y metalúrgicos”. El jefe de producción técnica de Auditorio de Tenerife habló del proceso creativo de cada proyecto, que dista del de una carpintería al uso porque “sabemos a dónde queremos llegar con cada trozo de madera”.

Actualmente, el equipo de Auditorio de Tenerife, compuesto por una quincena de trabajadores de la madera, el metal y la pintura, trabaja en la escenografía de La italiana en Argel, el primer título de la temporada 2018/2019 de Ópera de Tenerife, que tendrá lugar del 25 al 28 de octubre en la Sala Sinfónica. Los trece cantantes de nueve nacionalidades de la sexta edición de Opera (e)Studio ofrecerán este título de Rossini bajo la dirección escénica de Giorgia Guerra. Los decorados, de arquitectura mozárabe, se encuentran muy avanzados y, tras su estreno en la isla, viajarán el año que viene al Teatro Comunale di Bologna, en Italia.

El progresivo incremento de producción que ha desarrollado el centro cultural en los últimos años ha dado lugar a la necesidad de un espacio nuevo para el correcto desarrollo de estos trabajos. Ya se han realizado en este nuevo espacio los decorados de La flauta mágica, La traviata y Luisa Fernanda.

La nave que alberga el taller, de 450 metros cuadrados de estructura de hormigón con techo de acero, se ha acondicionado para acoger este tipo de actividades instalando maquinaria pero también con otras mejoras como la apertura de una puerta para camiones, el refuerzo de la resistencia estructural y las instalaciones de ventilación. Así, la nave ha vivido una transformación por parte del equipo de Auditorio de Tenerife para dotarla de todas las necesidades para convertirse en un taller de creación escénica con equipamiento para carpintería, pintura y metal. Sus más de siete metros de altura resultan ideales para propiciar el correcto desarrollo de este tipo de actividad.

Este nuevo espacio cuenta con las condiciones óptimas para el personal técnico y de taller, además de sostener, consolidar y promover la capacidad del centro cultural de producción y la mejora en los procesos de trabajo. En consonancia con la estrategia Tenerife 2030 que promueve el Cabildo Insular, está previsto que el taller cumpla con otros objetivos transversales como la formación y la vinculación con los centros profesionales, fomento del empleo, investigación, etc.

El desarrollo de la actividad de producción propia desarrollada por el Auditorio de Tenerife en estos últimos años -sumando diez títulos desde 2014- se ha sostenido en gran parte en la fabricación de nuevas escenografías desarrolladas por el equipo técnico del Auditorio en sus instalaciones y que progresivamente han ido creciendo en complejidad y volumen. Estas producciones, además de ser representadas en las instalaciones del Auditorio, han viajado a numerosos teatros europeos, movimiento que se encuentra en crecimiento y con vistas a llegar hasta Sudamérica y Oriente Medio. Dado el rápido desarrollo actual de la actividad se hace indispensable disponer de un espacio alternativo a los del Auditorio.

Con este taller, Carlos Alonso explicó que “abrimos el telón para que pase a escena el Distrito de las Artes”, ya que, además de atender a los objetivos de Tenerife 2030, esta nave será parte de los espacios creativos del distrito, uno de los proyectos del programa Tenerife Creativa 2016-2021 del Marco Estratégico para el Desarrollo de Tenerife (MEDI). El Taller de formación y creación escénica cuenta con una subvención del Fondo de Desarrollo de Canarias (FDCAN) del Gobierno de Canarias.

El proyecto social de Tenerife Danza, Danza en Comunidad, estrenó el jueves 27 de septiembre la pieza Tránsito. El espectáculo es el resultado de las sesiones celebradas durante el año con el grupo de diez participantes del Centro de Integración Mercedes Pinto y los voluntarios de la convocatoria de esta iniciativa, que promueve el Cabildo Insular dentro de su estrategia Tenerife 2030.

La coordinadora de este proyecto, Laura Marrero, explica que Tránsito fue tomando forma a partir de una pregunta que lanzó en clase: ¿Cuáles son los tres valores que hicieron al ser humano más humano? Comunicación, civilización, cultura, tolerancia, amor, humildad, confianza, empatía, honestidad, colaboración, respeto, conciencia de grupo, negociación, acuerdos, coordinación y el valor individual al servicio del grupo fueron las respuestas que dieron los participantes. A partir de estos conceptos, el grupo comenzó con el proceso creativo, probando e investigando movimientos y sensaciones hasta llegar a formar Tránsito, que habla sobre recordar, descubrir y transitar en un viaje hasta encontrarse en un espacio común y decidir bailar juntos.

Danza en Comunidad es un proyecto que lleva la danza hasta comunidades o colectivos de la sociedad que normalmente no tienen acceso a ella. Este proyecto, que cuenta con un equipo de profesionales compuesto por Raquel Jara, Carmen Macías, Cristina Hernández y Laura Marrero (coordinadora), es una de las tres vertientes de Tenerife Danza, que incluye además una rama pedagógica, la Unidad Didáctica de Tenerife Danza y otra artística, la compañía Lava.

Three of the Auditorio de Tenerife projects are taking part in Festival Índice to showcase the work done during the year with young islanders. On Saturday, 29 September Musical.IES is offering a concert by Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife and a performance by children from the Unidad Didáctica de Tenerife Danza.

The first group to go on stage is Musical.IES with an adaptation of the show Versus, directed by Melodie Pérez, and premiered in April by 200 students from 10 different schools across the Island. On this occasion, 35 students are taking part in the adaptation of the 40-minute musical which includes all the themes. They are performing at 12:00 noon on Saturday on an open-air stage to be placed between TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes and Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre.

At 1:00 pm 32 singers from Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife, are offering a concert in the square at TEA. This group, led by Roxana Schmunk, will offer a repertoire that is very related to literature, including songs like Azul, by Julio Domínguez on texts by Rafael Arozarena; Canción de amor, by Dante Andreo on texts by de Rafael Alberti; Yo no quiero morirme, by Dante Andreo on texts by Elsa López; and Only in sleep, by Ēriks Ešenvalds on texts by Sara Teasdale.

At 6:00 pm we can see a play that has been designed to be enjoyed by the whole family: Drakaina Draco y las 7 semillas mágicas [Drakaina Draco and the 7 magic seeds]. Drakaina Draco (played by Guacimara Gil), Arbustus Robustus (Mathías Pérez) and Stelli Maris (Irene Álvarez) are set to find original dragon tree seeds on the seven islands with the aim of recovering a great dragon tree forest, which is endangered. This show by Unidad Didáctica de Tenerife Danza, was premiered in April, and can be seen in the entrance square to TEA in an outdoor version of a story that was created and directed by Helena Berthelius.

Canarias Jazz Showroom turns ten and offers seventeen concerts across different islands to mark the occasion. To round it off, they will close the tour at Café Berlín in Madrid on 24 November. Four of their shows are to be held on 6 and 7 October at Sala de Cámara and the foyer at Auditorio de Tenerife, where Barreiro Project, Atcheré, CJS Reunion and Nicotine Swing are playing live. They are also publishing a record to showcase jazz made in the Canary Islands. During the concert on Sunday, 7^th they will be giving awards to the most outstanding performances of previous years.

The Sala de Cámara at Auditorio is welcoming on Saturday, 6^th at 7:30 pm Barreiro Project, a quintet led by Aarón Barreiro, a Canarian musician living in Barcelona, who have just published their first record, Good vibes. Their repertoire is a mixture of original music with a touch of jazz, black music, hip-hop, soul and R&B. The maturity of their interpretation contrasts with the age of the members of the group ranging from 20 to 25. After Barreiro’s concert, the foyer is hosting Atcheré, who are presenting their record Mestizo at 9:00 pm. The group, which is one of the best Latin jazz-fusion bands in the Canaries, have five records in the market and their repertoire is made up of original compositions. Their style is a cocktail of sounds including Latin rhythms, mainly Cuban and Brazilian, funk and jazz.

The concerts on Sunday 7^th start at Sala de Cámara at 7:30 pm with  CJS Reunion, a project that was set up to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Canarias Jazz Showroom. The octet is made up of some of the best jazz musicians on the Islands: Kike Perdomo, Ramón Díaz, Idafe Pérez, David Quevedo, Tana Santana, Norberto Arteaga, Marcos Pérez, Yossi Itskovich and singer Esther Ovejero. Their repertoire pays tribute to the best groups that have played in the festival. The last concert of the 10^th Canarias Jazz Showroom at Auditorio de Tenerife will take place at the foyer at 9:00 pm by Nicotine Swing, a group of swing/gipsy jazz set up in Tenerife in 2007 who is very well-liked by Canarian audiences. Their record Nuevo, presented at Canarias Jazz Showroom last year, was awarded best jazz record 2017 in the Canaries.

The  Escuela del Espectador [Audience School] starts its 6^th year with thirty students aged 18 to 64. The Island Director for Culture and Education, José Luis Rivero, welcomed the new group at the Auditorio de Tenerife and said that “there are no levels or assessments, all the opinions are valid”. Until July, the learners will take part in weekly two-hour sessions in which they will gain a deeper knowledge of music, dance and opera; they will also have master classes by artists and cultural experts and will attend the Auditorio de Tenerife shows so that they can use the analytic techniques they have learnt.

José Luis Rivero highlighted that “the process of learning about artistic languages at the Escuela is collective and horizontal, “we’re not looking for arty-farty people with learnedly opinions on a show, but people who can enjoy it from a natural point of view here and elsewhere in the world”.

The teacher at Escuela del Espectador, Iván Morales, explained to the students that in these sessions “your learning will help you to make the most of the shows and we’ll encourage you to try new disciplines you may not have dared to”. “We want them to be cultural ambassadors”, the expert said.

The first sessions will deal with introductory knowledge on each of the genres in Auditorio de Tenerife’s programme. They will also have specific talks on each show including free admission to see them followed by an analysis where discussion, agreement and disagreement and the encounter with the other are encouraged.

138 people applied to take part this year and 31 were selected taking into account certain features like municipality, age, gender, and professional profile. The idea of the programme, which is a public call and has no enrolment fee, is to have the widest possible range of Tenerife people: men and women, young and old, workers, students, pensioners, etc. The Escuela del Espectador is part of the Learning and Community Area of Auditorio de Tenerife, with the contribution of Fundación Cepsa and Obra Social “la Caixa”.

La Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio de Tenerife se llenará de público familiar este domingo 16 con la puesta en escena del espectáculo infantil Yo tengo derecho a jugar. La propuesta del grupo Cantajuego se podrá disfrutar en dos funciones, que comienzan a las 12:30 y a las 17:00 horas.

Yo tengo derecho a jugar. Tour 2018 es la nueva propuesta de este exitoso grupo, que lleva más de 10 años girando ininterrumpidamente por España, convocando a toda la familia, para cantar, bailar y participar al ritmo de sus pegadizas canciones. Los componentes de Cantajuego despliegan toda su energía a través de las canciones más populares de su extenso repertorio, incluyendo los éxitos de Viva mi planeta, su último trabajo, nominado a los premios Grammy latinos, y Cantajuego In English, que ha sido número 1 en ventas. Además, contarán con los indispensables Coco, Pepe y Buby, a los que se suman muchos otros personajes que le dan color y alegría a un espectáculo vibrante y lleno de ritmo.

Las entradas pueden adquirirse en los canales habituales de Auditorio de Tenerife, en taquilla de 10:00 a 19:30 horas, de lunes a sábado; aquí o por teléfono en el 902 317 327. Los niños que el día del espectáculo no hayan cumplido los dos años no necesitarán adquirir entrada si no van a ocupar una butaca.

Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife second season includes six concerts, four at Auditorio de Tenerife and two in Granadilla and Buenavista del Norte. In a press conference, the Cabildo’s Director for Culture, José Luis Rivero, and the director of Auditorio de Tenerife’s resident ensemble, Conrado Álvarez, talked about the second season, which will include a careful selection of Baroque compositions to be played by young musicians, mostly from Tenerife, and guest conductors like Juan de la Rubia or Bruno Procopio.

José Luis Rivero explained that “having a steady Baroque orchestra in Tenerife is a sign of the cultural maturity of musicians, who have received the right education, and also of the institutions which host them. This way a high quality programme can be made available to people on the Island”. Conrado Álvarez added that “the audience is ready to listen to this experience and go from the intangible, as for instance listening to Baroque music on Spotify, to the tangible and sensitive when listening live to early instruments music”.

The first meeting with Baroque music played with period instruments is taking place on Thursday, 13 September at 7:30 pm in Sala de Cámara [Chamber Hall] at Auditorio de Tenerife. This event, entitled Bachiana, is the first concert the Tenerife ensemble exclusively devotes to German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It would be the first time two Baroque oboes and flute are played together. The orchestra conductor says that some of the maestro’s best-known pieces will be recognised but that others will surprise the audience. “We’ll have the chance to listen to the skilful Tenerife musician Pablo Sosa, who is playing with the Baroque for the first time”, Conrado Álvarez revealed.

On 13 December at 7:30 pm, the Orquesta Barroca is putting on the show Noël a la francesa, conducted by Bruno Procopio, a Brazilian harpsichord player resident in Paris. The French concertante style of the 17^th and 18^th centuries has differentiating features like melodic turns in duos that are full of ornaments within the tonal harmony, with plenty of chord progressions shaped from the colourful basso continuo with symmetrical uniform rhythms but full of inegalité.

The  Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Tenerife  is offering two replicas of this concert on the Island. The first will be on 15 December at Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, in Granadilla, at 7:00 pm. The following day, 16 December, the same repertoire will be offered in Iglesia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, in Buenavista at 5:00 pm.  Admission to both concerts by Orquesta Barroca is free of charge. José Luis Rivero explains that “Making the Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife travel through the Festival Internacional de Música Antigua brings these programmes to people’s local churches”.

And there is yet more news this year: the QB Package  which offers an additional 15% discount on ticket prices for the autumn concerts of Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife and Quantum Ensemble.

The Baroque ensemble is giving their third concert on 14 March, Italianissimi, to be conducted by concertmaster Adrián Linares. The programme will include compositions by Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695 - 1764) and Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1669-1751).

The last concert in Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife second season is Be water, my friend, which we can listen to on 23 May with Juan de la Rubia as harpsichord and guest conductor. Water is the leitmotiv of this meeting with Baroque music which includes a selection of works by Handel (1685-1759) and Telemann (1681-1767).

Tickets and packages can be bought via Auditorio de Tenerife’s usual channels: at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; through the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com or calling 902 317 327.  Most of the period instruments played by the Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife belong to the collection of Real Academia Canaria de las Bellas Artes, in whose headquarters the Tenerife group holds some of their rehearsals. José Luis Rivero is grateful to the Academia for their collaboration because “playing with early instruments enables us to approach these repertoires from a historicist standpoint, in the sound conditions they were written”.

The Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife -part of the Tenerife 2030 strategy- was founded by Andmúsica, the Association for the Standardization of Early Music in the Canary Islands, to promote young Canarian players educated in Europe in period styles and instruments, providing the appropriate coordination platform to encourage the historical music heritage from other sound perspectives. This brings all musical forms from the 17^th and 18^th centuries to new audiences and adds value to the Canarian cultural scene.