The concert takes place on Tuesday, the 5th of April at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium’s Chamber Hall

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture Enrique Arriaga. The venue has programmed a concert by the Canary Islands-born pianist Ainoa Padrón. The concert Croma includes works by Óscar Esplá, Olivier Messiaen and Manuel Bonnín and takes place on Tuesday the 5th of April at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium’s Chamber Hall.

This concert's programme features exceptional chromaticism thanks to three works for piano in an unexpected combination: Esplá, Messiaen and Bonnín, composers who seemingly are not related but who share an exuberant sound full of harmonic subtleties and unlikely melodies.

The Sonata Española (Spanish Sonata) by Óscar Esplá (from Levante) opens the concert with a nod to romanticism. This piece, from 1949 and dedicated to the memory of Chopin, combines a certain sense of chromaticism that is sometimes subtle and often amusing – almost brazen – with a unique intimacy in which references to the mazurka have a clearly French influence.

This brings us to the chromaticism of the pieces by Olivier Messiaen, a selection from the "Twenty Visions of the Infant Jesus" suite, from 1944. All of the tones previously proposed by Esplá are collected here vertically; Messiaen plays with them and prolongs them in time, emboldening the air with each chord.

Finally, a piece that brings together Esplá's introversion and the breadth of Messiaen: The Piano Sonata in E Minor by the Tenerife-born composer Manuel Bonnín. This is a piece from 1930 with a tremendously polyphonic language, complex in terms of the interweaving of each line but always honest in its development; a piece with no superfluous notes and where each and every one of them is part of the orchestral and dazzling vision for the piano.

Ainoa Padrón currently lives in Cologne, Germany, where she teaches co-repetition and piano accompanist for the Robert Schumann Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf. In terms of her concert activity, she combines vocal repertoire and solos with some of her most important performances, including tours around Europe with tenor Julian Prégardien, as well as Grieg's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Junge Philharmonie of Neuwied.

Recipient of many prizes and awards in international competitions, she received the third prize, alongside tenor Javier Alonso, at the 2010 Hugo Wolf International Lied Competition in Stuttgart, the second prize with soprano Karola Pavone at the International Spoken Singing Contest in Sankt Augustin in 2015, first prize at the Rhein-Rhur Competition in 2017. Likewise, she was considered the best accompanying pianist in the 2010 Felix Mendelssohn Competition for Vocal Ensembles in Berlin.

In addition, she has made recordings for the German radio (WDR, SWR) and for the Spanish radio RTVE. She has done several CDs for the RALS-Musical Creation in the Canary Islands project, featuring original works by Canary Island’s composers from the first half of the nineteenth century, performed on a Broadwood piano from 1812. She has also worked for Columna Música, with the CD entitled "El mar y la infancia" (The Sea and Childhood) with the tenor Javier Alonso. She has also done recordings of pieces by Schubert, Montsalvatge, and García Abril, and recordings for the Spanish Society of Musicology (SEDEM) with a solo piano repertoire by the composers of the Madrid-based ‘Grupo de los Ocho’ (the Group of Eight).

Tickets can be purchased on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Ticket purchase also entails the user’s unconditional acceptance of all measures implemented by the Island's Council to combat the spread of the pandemic, such as the correct use of masks. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium’s website.