The Auditorio de Tenerife will receive 1,591 schoolchildren this week. Saturday’s session will be exclusively for families.

 

This week, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra begins its educational concerts season with El circo de Don Nicanor (Mr. Nicanor's Circus), by Victor Trescolí Sanz, texts by Mar Benegas, and illustrations by Ximo Abadía. Ana Hernández Sanchiz will be in charge of the direction and narration. The event begins on Wednesday and Thursday with the visit of 1,591 schoolchildren to the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín, and ends on Saturday (18) with a concert for families. Both performances are sold out.

An ensemble from the Sinfónic de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) will perform the first concert of the 2023-2024 season. It presents the adventures of an altruistic character, Don Nicanor. After rescuing several animals, Don Nicanor decides to open a special circus where everyone can show off their skills. The chamber music group consists of Eduardo Langarica on the violin; Joanna Hetherington, on cello; Esther Pinyol, on harp, and Eduardo Martín, on tuba; Ernesto Mateo appears as a guest soloist on the toy piano.

On Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 and 11:30 a.m., it will be the turn of the 1,591 preschool children from 26 schools of nine island municipalities. The following day, a new performance takes place in the former San Sebastián monastery in Los Silos as part of the International Storytelling Festival.

Ernesto Mateo, a pianist and composer from Gran Canaria, is working professionally at the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries. The soloist has more than 60 works, including operas, electronic music, children's pieces, tongue twisters for choir and even a concerto for toy piano and orchestra. His music has been performed in France, Italy, Mexico, and Uruguay.

Mateo has performed his own music and that of other authors on the piano, toy piano, synthesiser, and all kinds of keyboards throughout the Canary Islands. In addition, he has taken part in festivals for classical, early and modern music.