The event this Friday is conducted by Tabita Berglund and features pianist Martín García García as guest soloist

 

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra has sold all tickets for the concert it is offering this Friday (15th) at the Auditorio de Tenerife as part of a new event by the orchestra in its season subscription which includes works by Tchaikovsky and Chopin and which has been named The Nutcracker. The Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund is once again leading the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra to conduct this programme which also notably features the Asturian pianist Martín García García as soloist. The concert will start at 7:30 p.m.

The Nutcracker, suite 1, op. 71A, TH 35 by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky will open the evening of music. It is a score created in 1892 and based on a fairy tale that appeals to audiences of all ages. The ballet recounts how a series of toys come to life during Christmas Eve, and practically from the time it premiered, it became one of the Russian composer's most popular scores.

Then, there will be a performance of Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor by Frédéric Chopin from 1830 which follows in the wake of the concertos of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, who was in turn influenced by those of Mozart. The piece, with a deep nationalist impact, has lyrical writing, richly adorned, in which the piano -played on this occasion by Martín García García- gets all the attention, while the orchestra contributes the main musical materials, adding timbric colour and sound support.

After the interlude, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will once again perform Tchaikovsky, this time with his Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, TH 29, composed in 1888 in which he evokes his internal battles through destiny as an inspiring concept. This cyclical work, which is completely autobiographical, underwent several corrections and rewrites during his creative process, deriving from his emotional state.

Tabita Berglund has established herself as one of the brightest hopes on the European scene and has been recognised as the most influential young composer of her generation; her style has been described as suggestive, charismatic, and sharp. Within the symphonic realm, her debuts with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lyon, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Grafenegg Festival, stand out, where she featured alongside the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich.

On an opera level, her presence leading the Philharmonia Orchestra stands out, making her debut at the Girlington Opera conducting The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. This season also notably features her intervention as the principal guest conductor of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and her commitments with the Trondheim Symfoniorkester and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

Berglund has appeared alongside the leading orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Luzerner Symphonieorchester, the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, the Hallé, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Tapiola Sinfonietta.

Aged just 26, Martín García García is considered one of the most internationally renowned pianists. He performed around 80 concerts all over the world in 2023 alone, making his debut in Korea, Mexico and Brazil. He has also visited Japan, the United States, Canada, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Lithuania, Portugal and Luxembourg, giving outstanding recitals and performing alongside prestigious orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Philarmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphoniker, the Warsaw Philarmonic Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta de Brasilia.

García visited the Carnegie Hall in New York and Japan in 2022, on a tour of 14 performances in which he amassed 25,000 spectators. A year earlier, in 2021, he was awarded first place at the "Cleveland International Piano Competition" and third place at the "2021 International Chopin Piano Competition".

Leandro Martín Quinteros, from the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music (Atadem), will give a talk on the three works to be heard at the concert. The event will start at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida, located in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín.