The concert will take place on Friday 20 September 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife and will feature the guest pianist Marco Mezquida, creator of the central piece of this performance, Talaiot

 

The maestro Víctor Pablo Pérez will conduct the second concert in the new season of the Sinfónica de Tenerife, which got off to a brilliantly successful start under the baton of Vasily Petrenko, achieving an exceptional reception and practically selling out. The second will take place on Friday, 20 September 2024, at 7.30 p.m. at the Auditorio de Tenerife. This concert will feature a debut by Marco Mezquida's first performance as a soloist with the Sinfónica de Tenerife. The pianist from Menorca is also the creator of Talaiot, the central piece of the performance, which premiered in 2023 with Víctor Pablo Pérez conducting the Vallès Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

In the concert's first part, the audience will enjoy Tribute to the Film Composer by John Williams and Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture by George Gershwin.

Víctor Pablo Pérez, who has conducted practically every Spanish orchestra over his long career and who is currently the Honorary Conductor of the symphony orchestras of Tenerife and Galicia, as well as Artistic Director of the Canary Islands Youth Orchestra, will oversee this concert that will blend the languages of the classical and jazz genres, characteristic elements in Marco Mezquida's work. Talaiot was the first foray by the Menorcan composer into symphonic composition; the work is inspired by his native island, Menorca, and its prehistoric monuments. According to Mezquida, it is a 'romantic, impressionist, Iberian, minimalist piece with touches of jazz'. The commission came from Vallès Symphony Orchestra and the Palau de la Música Catalana in 2023, which also staged the work's premiere.

Beforehand, and as part of this start of the season, the Sala Avenida, located in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife, will be hosting a lecture by the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music on the different formal aspects of the pieces played in the concert. Leandro Martín will provide the talk at 6:30 p.m.

The tickets for this concert can be purchased until the day of the event on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.