Sunday’s concert, beginning at 11 a.m, ,will also see the participation of ensembles from Arafo, Los Realejos and La Matanza

The Primavera Musical cycle 2026 programme concludes this Sunday (June 21) at 11 a.m. with a concert bringing together the wind bands La Candelaria (Arafo), the Los Realejos Philharmonic, El Salvador (La Matanza), and the Island Council of El Hierro wind band, invited by the Tenerife Federation of Music Bands. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

The ensemble Agrupación Artístico Musical La Candelaria, marking its 100th anniversary, will open the concert in the Chamber Hall. Comprising 88 musicians and under the baton of Carlos Alberto Fernández, the wind band will present the following repertoire: Extreme Make-Over: Metamorphoses on a Theme by Tchaikovsky by Johan de Meij, and Roberto Javier Pestano González by Saúl Gómez Soler.

The Sociedad Musical Filarmónica de Los Realejos, founded in 1847 on the occasion of the patronal festivities in honour of the Virgen de los Dolores, will be the second ensemble to perform this Sunday. Conducted by Adán Pérez García and comprising 36 musicians, the band comes to the Auditorio de Tenerife to perform three pieces: Tercio de Quites by Rafael Talens; Las Playas de Río by Kees Vlak; and Granada by Agustín Lara, arranged by Robert Longfield.

Agüero by José Franco, Ribate; Fate of the Gods by Steven Reineke, and It Don’t Mean a Thing by Duke Ellington, arranged by Dick Ravenal, are the three pieces that the Sociedad Musical El Salvador of La Matanza de Acentejo will perform for audiences at this Sunday’s concert. The concert band, whose origins date back to the mid-19th century, comprises 35 musicians and is conducted by José Nareme Rodríguez Hernández.

To conclude this meeting of musical ensembles, the organisers have invited the wind band of the El Hierro Island Council. Led by Gonzalo Lemus Bravo and made up of 45 musicians, the ensemble will perform three works from its repertoire: Valverde by Esteban Fariña; Rhapsody Novena by James Swearingen; and Santo Domingo Herreño Alma by Gonzalo Lemus.

This year’s edition of Primavera Musical began on 15 March and has enabled 34 wind bands to perform at the Auditorio de Tenerife. More than 1,500 musicians have taken part in a dozen concerts organised by the wind bands federation ‘Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música’, with the support of the Tenerife Island Council.