This Sunday’s matinee features the duo Daniel Oyarzabal and Miriam Hontana

This Sunday (26th) at 12:00 in the Symphony Hall, the Tenerife Auditorium is offering one of the concerts of its organ cycle, which has the collaboration of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel. The matinee Las estaciones de Vivaldi features the duo composed of the organist Daniel Oyarzabal and the violinist Miriam Hontana.

The Auditorium organ, built by maestro Albert Blancafort and his team, is a 21st-century instrument, unique for its design, but also for its sound and registers. The sounds emerge from the 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall, which are controlled from the stage by the console, with four keyboards, where the organist plays. On this occasion, the violin is added as the main novelty in this first concert of 2025 of the organ cycle.

The concert begins with Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 610, followed by two transcriptions of Prokofiev and Rossini, arranged by organist Daniel Oyarzabal. The first is two movements from Romeo and Juliet op.64 and the overture to Rossini’s The Thief Magpie.

The second part of the programme includes three fragments from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Spring, Summer and Winter can be heard this Sunday in the Symphony Hall of the Tenerife Auditorium.

Daniel Oyarzabal has a long international career with concerts in more than 25 countries in Europe, Asia and America. He studied in Vitoria, Vienna, The Hague and Amsterdam. Special Press Prize at the National Youth Showcase in Ibiza (1991), First Prize at the International Music Competition in Rome (1998) and Third Prize at the XIX International Competition in Nijmegen, Holland (2002). He is currently a professor of the Degree in Composition at the TAI University School of Arts and Performances and principal organist of the National Orchestra of Spain.

Miriam Hontana has been maintaining a fervent concert activity as a soloist for years, which has led her to perform at festivals in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina and China.

In 2021, he created his own group OBNI, with which he has just recorded an album of solo violin concerts by Bach and Vivaldi. OBNI premiered at the International Festival of Sacred Art of the Community of Madrid, and in its short career it has already performed at festivals such as the Innsbruck Early Music Festival in August 2022.

Tickets can be purchased for 15 euros, 5 for those under 30, on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the box office from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and by phone by calling 902 317 327 during the same hours. Discounts are available for students, the unemployed and large families.