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The wind bands of San Pedro (El Sauzal), Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Buenavista) and Nivaria (Arafo) are the protagonists.

The Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts this Sunday (7th) at 11:30 a.m. a new concert of the Primavera Musical cycle, featuring the music bands Agrupación Musical San Pedro from El Sauzal, the Municipal Band Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from Buenavista and the Sociedad Filarmónica Nivaria from Arafo. The event is an initiative by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and the collaboration of the Island Council.

The first wind band to play on stage is the Agrupación Musical San Pedro from El Sauzal, created in 1987 and conducted by Francisco Jairo Cabrera Estévez. Three works comprise the repertoire, two by the Dutch composer Jacob de Haan, The Blue Factory and Virginia. The group's third piece is A Disney Spectacular, arranged by English percussionist John Moss.

The municipal band Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from Buenavista is the second ensemble to perform. Founded in 1929, Humberto Martín de Armas directs the group. It has chosen the compositions L'amistat by Ferrer Ferrán, Gigantes y Cabezudos by Manuel Fernández Caballero, and Deep Purple with arrangements by Toshihiko Sahashi.

The ensemble Sociedad Filarmónica Nivaria from Arafo - with more than 150 years of history - closes this Sunday's concert in the Chamber Hall. Conducted by Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero, the performance begins with the pasodoble Aniversarios, by the Galician composer Simón Couceiro Riveira and El Lugar, by the Valencian Ferrer Ferrán.

The Primavera Musical cycle has been organized by the wind bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' since 2005 with the support of the Tenerife Island Council. As part of this initiative, the public can listen to the 37 wind bands that form the association in the Auditorio de Tenerife's Chamber Hall with free admission until total capacity is reached.

Auditorio de Tenerife recibe los dos conciertos sinfónicos del festival

El Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife, Fimucité, presentado en el Salón Noble del Cabildo de Tenerife, el evento del género más antiguo del mundo, fundado y dirigido por el compositor y director de orquesta Diego Navarro, alcanza su mayoría de edad con una nueva edición que sorprenderá a los aficionados al cine y la música, gracias al apoyo como máximo patrocinador del Cabildo de Tenerife y Turismo de Tenerife, junto a los ayuntamientos de Santa Cruz de Tenerife y San Cristóbal de La Laguna y el Gobierno de Canarias, entre otras entidades públicas y privadas. El tema elegido para esta edición, que tendrá lugar entre el 5 y el 20 de julio, son los musicales y sus míticas adaptaciones cinematográficas, según avanzó Diego Navarro.

La presidenta del Cabildo, Rosa Dávila, señala que “Fimucité cumple su mayoría de edad, 18 años, y lo hace de la mejor manera posible. Es un referente mundial de la música de cine y es el festival más longevo de Europa. El año pasado 7.000 personas disfrutaron de este festival y de su música. Es un referente de identidad de la música para Tenerife. El Cabildo ha duplicado el apoyo a Fimucité”.  

El consejero de Cultura y Museos de Tenerife, José Carlos Acha, manifiesta que “la música en el cine es fundamental, es la banda sonora, lo que le da dramatismo a las escenas y tiene tanto peso que fue posible crear un festival. Esa visión la tuvo hace Diego Navarro. El Cabildo de Tenerife ha hecho una apuesta clara por mantener el festival, junto al apoyo de otras administraciones. Es un festival además que tiene cine de verano, jornadas educativas, conciertos y demás”.

El alcalde de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, indica, que “en Santa Cruz estamos felices de poder contar con una nueva edición de Fimucité.  A nosotros nos gusta que Diego Navarro nos regale su arte, y a la vez nos trae a gente de fuera que realza la capital y nos da otro nivel. Fimucité es de los mejores festivales del mundo. Enhorabuena a los organizadores”.

El director de Innovación Cultura e Industrias Creativas, Cristóbal de la Rosa, resalta que “las industrias creativas y culturales aportan el 2,9% del PIB de Canarias, o sea 1.573 millones de euros. Necesitamos unirnos más y más iniciativas serias. Tenemos que hacer piña y apoyar estas actividades conjuntamente”.

La concejala de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Leticia Villegas, comenta que “es una cita que esperábamos con ansias y La Laguna tiene el placer de acoger y disfrutar de su pistoletazo de salida en nuestro icónico Teatro Leal. Proyectos como Fimucité siempre contarán con nuestro apoyo y cariño”.

Diego Navarro destaca que desde que el cine sonoro entró en escena, el musical ha acompañado su historia, con clásicos memorables como 'El mago de Oz' (1939), 'Cantando bajo la lluvia' (1952), 'West Side Story' (1961) o 'Cabaret' (1972). Además, en los últimos años hemos asistido a un renacer con nuevas y aplaudidas propuestas, entre las que brillan títulos como 'Moulin Rouge' (2001), ‘La La Land’ (2016) o 'The Greatest Showman' (2017). A este género que ha alimentado los sueños de Hollywood rinde homenaje Fimucité en su decimoctava edición, a través de su programación de conciertos y actividades paralelas.

Esta celebración del musical contará con un invitado excepcional: Justin Hurwitz, compositor de la música de 'La La Land', por la que logró dos premios Óscar a la mejor banda sonora y a la mejor canción original ('City of Stars', reconocimiento compartido con Benj Pasek y Justin Paul). El aclamado autor de las partituras de otros títulos como 'Whiplash', 'First Man' o 'Babylon', se pondrá al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife en uno de los conciertos clave del programa.

Para calentar motores, el Festival abrirá sus puertas con un ciclo de cine de verano, de entrada gratuita, que esta vez se desarrollará en la plaza de Residencial Anaga de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. El público podrá disfrutar de la proyección al aire libre de los icónicos musicales ‘Mamma Mía’, ‘West Side Story’ y ‘El Fantasma de la Ópera’, las noches del 4, 5 y 6 de julio. Una iniciativa organizada con el apoyo de la concejalía del Distrito Centro-Ifara del ayuntamiento capitalino y que cuenta con la colaboración de la Fundación Disa.

El viernes 12 de julio, La Laguna acogerá un original concierto inaugural que convertirá el Teatro Leal en el ‘Fimucité Cabaret’, con Atelier de Musique, una banda de 7 excelentes músicos liderados por el extraordinario saxofonista Kike Perdomo, a los que se unirá The Vintage Experience, un trío de brillantes cantantes especializadas en repertorio retro. Perdomo prepara arreglos exclusivos, basados en icónicas canciones de emblemáticos musicales como ‘Cabaret’, ‘Moulin Rouge’, ‘Chicago’ o ‘Burlesque’, que se estrenarán en este espectáculo.

Después de diez años de éxitos continuados haciendo bailar al Teatro Guimerá de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, el sábado 13 de julio la Pop Culture Band, formada por 15 componentes con la excelente dirección musical y arreglos exclusivos de Gonzalo de Araoz, renueva su puesta en escena dentro de Fimucité con el concierto ‘Don´T Stop Believing!’. El programa ofrecerá canciones de míticos musicales y biopics de músicos y bandas que son leyenda como ‘Fama’, ‘Grease’, ‘Mamma Mía’, ‘Rocketman’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘La Bamba’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ y otros títulos imprescindibles.

La noche del jueves 18 de julio la Banda Municipal de Santa Cruz, dirigida por Juan Antonio Domínguez Martín, y una selección de voces solistas, ofrecerán una maravillosa selección de partituras de películas musicales, que harán las delicias del público que se acerque a la Plaza del Príncipe de la capital tinerfeña.

Conciertos sinfónicos 

Como marca la tradición, los conciertos sinfónicos en el Auditorio de Tenerife cerrarán el Festival, con la interpretación de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife.

El viernes 19 de julio Fimucité proyectará la película ‘La La Land’, mientras se interpreta su banda sonora en directo, perfectamente sincronizada con las imágenes, diálogos y efectos de sonido del filme, bajo la dirección de su compositor Justin Hurwitz. Una nueva experiencia “live-to-picture”, tras el éxito en pasadas ediciones de los conciertos dedicados a ‘Encuentros en la Tercera Fase’, donde participó el escritor y periodista Javier Sierra como presentador e invitado estelar, y a ‘Drácula de Bram Stoker’, en coproducción con el Festival de Música de Cine de Cracovia. El extraordinario Polo Ortí, máximo exponente del piano jazzístico en Canarias, será el solista principal de este concierto. La película, que ganó 6 premios Oscar de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, incluidos mejor banda sonora y canción para Justin Hurwitz, se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial y relanzó el género musical en el cine.

La clausura de Fimucité, con Diego Navarro a la batuta, será un gran fin de fiesta, el sábado 20 de julio, en el que la audiencia asistirá a un viaje a través de los mejores musicales de la historia y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas. ‘A million dreams’ recorrerá partituras monumentales y acogerá estrenos mundiales de arreglos sinfónicos de películas como ‘El Mago de Oz’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Cantando bajo la lluvia’, ‘Un americano en París’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘El gran showman’, ‘El Fantasma de la Ópera’ o ‘Los Miserables’, con la participación de solistas canarios de primer nivel, como Cristina Ramos, Carmen Acosta, Néstor Galván y Fran León, entre otros.

This Saturday, the piece ´Alexandre´ reflects on equality while on Sunday an ensemble is performing in the show ´In Your Head´

This weekend, the Auditorio de Tenerife is hosting two shows by the Brazilian artist Pol Pi. This Saturday (6th), Alexandre will be staged, a dance solo starring the dancer and choreographer, while on Sunday (7th), In Your Head will be performed, a show with the Berlin string ensemble Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and are being held in the stage box of the Symphony Hall.

After questioning the physical, linguistic, and anthropological issues raised by the recording of a voice and dealing with the male rite of passage, Pol Pi created Alexandre, thus making this name the password for a possible transformation.

Alexandre weaves a complex tapestry, a reflection of the construction of sameness and difference. It's a journey of self-discovery, where the protagonist's body, voice, and imaginary doubles intertwine in a ritual that traverses the realms of near and far, fusion and cut, dream and reality, masculine and feminine.

On the other hand, in the show In Your Head, with a concept and artistic direction by Pol Pi, the members of a string quartet consider what happens in the body of a musician when they play: how does music take hold of the body, go through it, make it pulsate, move, act and resonate with the score through an object that is both inert and living: the instrument? In In Your Head, with playwriting by Gilles Amalvi, the performer plays and dances an inner dance that is concentrated and precise.

The choreographer Pol Pi, a trained musician who has played the viola for a long time, had the instinct to present Quartet No. 8 by Shostakovich: a testamentary work composed 15 years after the Second World War as a requiem for himself, who acts like a ghost hovering over the music, burdened with the darkness of war and the oppression he suffered throughout his career.

This composition is performed by Kaleidoskop, a Berlin group devoted to experimenting with instrumental music by exploring the body and stage. Accompanied by four of its musicians -Sophie Notte on the cello, Anna Faber and Mia Bodet on the violin, and Yodfat Miron on the viola-, Pol Pi has tried to extract the essence of his intimate, daily, conflictive and passionate relationship with music and its instruments, creating a series of pictures that resonate with the score.

The score acts as an intermediary between the language of the notes and that of the bodies, between Shostakovich's concerns and those of the present. It is followed to the letter, guiding every breath, finger inflexion, or movement of a member.

Pol Pi is a transmasculine Brazilian choreographer based in France since 2013. Before entering contemporary dance, he worked in theatre, music, and opera, and he has been a professional musician for over ten years. He is interested in a broader understanding of choreography, working around questions of memory and temporality, language and translation, and the idea of archive in dance, with a particular interest in works based on being in situ. In 2016, he founded No Drama in Paris, creating several choreographies, including the two coming to the Auditorio de Tenerife this weekend.

Founded in 2006 in Berlin, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop has worked to develop new forms of experimental musical theatre from the outset. With great openness, the group creates new formats, collaborates with international artists from other genres, and stages music in contemporary contexts. Recently, the group's work has focused on examining the body. The group members have gone from being mere instrumentalists to becoming musical performers and co-authors of these collaborative productions. Kaleidoskop views musical theatre as a meeting, community space and a place that has the power to imagine other futures.

The tickets for the performances, priced at ten euros, are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The work achieves a blend between Tanganillo and Tajaraste with contemporary music

The Sinfónica de Tenerife is tackling its second world premiere of the season. The orchestra will give its first performance of Tangaraste, by the Tenerife composer Gustavo Trujillo, in the concert this Friday (5th) at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife. The concert will feature the Percussion section of the orchestra as the soloists made up of Paco Díaz, Emilio Díaz, Charli Llácer, and Juan Antonio Miñana, all conducted by Jaume Santonja.

Gustavo Trujillo (La Orotava, 1972) explains that "Tangaraste is a combination of Tanganillo and Tajaraste (Canarian music and dance), a spectacular piece packed with energy and rhythm, which I am sure the audience is going to enjoy”. The Tenerife composer adds that "the work has three parts which refer to verses from Canarian folklore and which offer visceral motifs and rhythms that are very characteristic and recognisable in our culture”.

Trujillo acknowledges that he has been thinking about this project for almost forty years and that "it is a tribute to the orchestra's Percussion section, the orchestra itself and my beginnings in the band of the Agrupación Musical Orotava". The work was written in 2019 through the Tenerife Contemporary Music Festival (FMUC) commission.

Before the concert, the composer will give a talk (6:30 p.m.) in the Auditorio de Tenerife's Avenida Hall, in which he will reveal details about this premiere and the other works he has chosen to form the programme. This activity is organized by the Tenerife Association for Friends of Music (Atadem).

Paco Díaz leads the orchestra's Percussion section and acknowledges that this work "conveys important emotions because it is deeply linked to regional folklore". In addition, he states that "in the first movement the small drums are the most important part, in the second the xylophone takes precedence and in the third, there is a percussion set formed by instruments of leather skin, metal and everyday kitchen utensils".

Jaume Santonja is returning to the island to conduct the Sinfónica de Tenerife in a programme that, he acknowledges, "is focused on contemporary music. Although the pieces seem mixed and very different from one another, they constitute a small work in themselves through their connection". Santonja has recently been appointed the principal guest conductor of the Milan Symphony Orchestra. From 2018 to 2021, he was assistant conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Basque National Orchestra.

The second part of the concert on Friday will begin with Cantus in Memory Benjamin Britten, by Arvo Pärt, a song composed in 1977 as a tribute to the British composer who passed away a year earlier. The piece, written for strings and bells, is an example of tintinnabula. This style refers to the harmonic vibrations produced by a specific combination of certain notes in the scale, making its author one of the most influential figures of the 20^th century.

Then, Britten's work Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, op. 33a will be performed in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. This 1945 composition presents four traditional vignettes featuring the sea.

This Midnight Hour is a work by the British composer Anna Clyne, written in 2015, which evokes a visual journey for the listener without representing a specific narrative. It is based on two poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez and Charles Baudelaire.

The programme is completed by Huapango by José Pablo Moncayo, a work composed in 1941 that quickly became a symbol of Mexican identity, as it is inspired by a dance that takes its name from the wooden platform on which the dancers perform steps.

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 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Around one hundred people took part in the 12 programmes and attended the celebration.

The artistic and social project Danza en Comunidad (Dance in the Community) by Auditorio de Tenerife celebrates its tenth anniversary. The anniversary took place at a gathering involving one hundred professionals and groups who had participated in the programme activities over this decade.

Danza en Comunidad has developed and carried out twelve programmes and four research processes during this period. It has worked with 40 groups, that have participated and returned for different project editions. The number of participants involved surpasses 1,500 people. Over one thousand work sessions have been held, many of which have resulted in 68 performances. In addition to the in-house activity, they have participated in 28 projects, initiatives and festivals in the Community.

For the occasion, the Auditorio de Tenerife's Multipurpose Hall has been transformed into a multi-sensory space with areas for writing, thinking, dialogue, dancing, and even creating video recordings. Upon arrival, attendees removed their shoes to put on their new commemorative socks and thus enjoyed the event more freely.

The celebration of the tenth anniversary was led by the DC team, formed by Laura Marrero, Carmen Macías, Dácil Baute, Judith García and Tania Pérez. Alongside the attendees, the facilitators carried out several movement dynamics, including screening a commemorative video. One hundred people enjoyed the event, including managers and associates of the groups, people participating in the different programmes, hall and festival schedulers, teachers from schools, artistic collaborators and the Auditorio de Tenerife team.

Danza en Comunidad has carried out committed and respectful work with a team trained in Dance and with great social sensibility. Those in charge of the project most value the people, adventures, experiences, and learning accumulated over these ten years. "Art gains new meanings in social and vulnerable contexts, like the art of dance, which is also vulnerable," reflects Laura Marrero, one of the founders of Dance in the Community.

This project aims to create different pathways and itineraries where Dance is available for any person, collective, group or association that needs to work with the tools of a professional. To do so, the time that each person takes to assimilate things is respected, and the aim is to find the movement of each body. Group relationships, agreements, participation, movement and ideas are essential to creating an atmosphere where every person can exercise their right to move, make, and express their sensibility. The main aim and ultimate commitment of Danza en Comunidad is to form a community that provides mediation and resources for Dance and movement.

Adeje and La Orotava join the capital city in receiving three different programmes put together by the singer himself.

The Auditorio de Tenerife brings these lyrical recitals to three venues on the island by the tenor Airam Hernández and the pianist Vanessa García. From April 4 to 6, the Auditorio de Adeje, the Auditorio Teobaldo Power in La Orotava, and the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz will host different programmes that the singer has prepared with each of these venues in mind. All performances start at 7:30 p.m.

For Airam Hernández, "planning a concert is comparable to creating a good perfume: the order, quantity and balance between the pieces are essential for it to work". "Thus, it thrills and lives on in the memory.", states the San Cristóbal de La Laguna-born tenor, who began his solo career in the Opernstudio and Ensemble of the Opernhaus Zürich

The Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife will be the first to welcome the renowned singer on Thursday, April 4, with El viaje del Trovador (The Troubadour's Journey). This programme includes a selection of Spanish songs that trace a line through time from the 15th century to the present, inviting the audience to travel through time and enjoy the compositional evolution of a repertoire rich in registers and a broad palette of sounds.

The following day, Friday the 5th, the tenor and the pianist will perform at the Auditorio in Adeje the programme Aires del Sur (Tunes of the South), focusing on composers from the south of Spain and Latin America. The tour ends on Saturday 6th, at the Auditorio Teobaldo Power in La Orotava with the programme Aires del Norte, dedicated to composers from the north of Spain. For Airam Hernández, "They were born to offer two programmes that connect with people who come to these two beautiful spaces on the island. Thus, we are offering our audience the chance to enjoy two different programmes that capture the essence of the Spanish song tradition".

Hernández has taken on the role of Tamino, Don Ottavio, Pollione, Tebaldo, Edgardo, Alfredo, Fenton, Faust, Rodolfo, Jason, Ulysse, Grigori, and Arcadio, as well as the world premières in Sardanapalo (Liszt), Caruso in Cuba (Schaunard Award for Best Performer of the Year), and El Abrecartas.

He has performed in the main theatres in countries such as Spain, France, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary and Switzerland. He has been conducted by conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Teodor Currentzis, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Nello Santi, Marco Armiliato, Ivor Bolton, Víctor Pablo Pérez and Markus Poschner, among others. 

Vanessa García is a Spanish pianist, repetiteur, vocal coach and assistant orchestra conductor who particularly excels as an extraordinary accompanist. Her musical attributes were apparent from an early age, so she studied singing, chamber music and choral conducting. 

At different times, Vanessa García has had the chance to perform as a soloist and accompanist at the Palau de la Música and with the Orchestra of the Catalonian Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain). She is a vocal coach and repetiteur at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

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This event will feature the participation of the wind bands from Santa Úrsula, San Andrés and San Miguel de Abona.

Tomorrow (Sunday 24), the Auditorio de Tenerife will host the third concert of the "Primavera Musical" cycle at the Chamber Hall. The event will feature the participation of the concert bands Ernesto Beteta (Santa Úrsula), Amigos del Arte de San Andrés (Santa Cruz) and the band from San Miguel de Abona. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. and is organised by the wind bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the support of Tenerife Island Council.

The band Asociación Músico-Cultural Ernesto Beteta from Santa Úrsula, under the direction of Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero, will be the first ensemble to perform. The band, with more than three decades of history, has prepared a repertoire formed by La Fallera, by the Valencian composer Ferrer Ferrán, Por una cabeza, by the Argentinian Carlos Gardel, and La Sombra del Peregrino, by José Luis Peiró.

The wind band 'Sociedad Protectora de la Banda de Música Amigos del Arte de San Andrés', which originated in 1967, will be the second group to take to the stage of the Chamber Hall. Conducted by Juan Antonio Domínguez Martín, the ensemble will perform the pasodoble El último romántico by Reveriano Soutullo and Juan Bautista Vert, the King Arthur suite by Kees Schoonenbeek. It will end with the soundtrack of the main theme from Exodus by Ernest Gold.

The third event of the Primavera Musical cycle in the Auditorio de Tenerife will conclude with the performance by the wind band San Miguel de Abona, conducted by Marvin Federico Martín Pérez, with the Galician pasodoble Puenteareas by Reveriano Soutullo and Sajelbon by José Alberto Pina.

The Primavera Musical cycle has been organised by the wind bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' since 2005 with the support of Tenerife Island Council. As part of this campaign, the public can listen to the 37 wind bands that shape the association in the Auditorio de Tenerife's Chamber Hall. The event is free entry until total capacity is reached.

ˋReality is nuanceˊ can be heard live this Saturday in trio format of guitar, double bass and drums.

This Saturday (23rd), at 7:30 p.m., the new jazz album of Albert Vila Trío will be presented at the Auditorium's Chamber Hall. Reality is nuance. Vila's guitar, the double bass of Doug Weiss, and the drums of Ferenc Nemeth form the trio for this concert, playing the seventh work of the Barcelona-born musician and composer.

Albert Vila has recorded and performed his compositions in larger groups, such as quartets and quintets. This time, he is exploring his compositional and performative skills in a smaller group. The guitar trio format can be minimalist, delicate, and even challenging, especially on this album, which lasts almost an hour. However, Weiss and Nemeth mix styles and textures and capture a broad tonal range, in which individualities serve a whole.

As an eclectic and reflexive musician, Albert Vila undergoes intense personal searching to create a coherent language. Vila stated, "I drew inspiration from classical and jazz pianists' use of polyphony and aimed to bring some of that universe to the guitar trio format".

Albert Vila is considered one of the most influential guitarists of his generation. He began his music studies at the Taller de Musics in Barcelona. In 1999, he was accepted to the Amsterdam Conservatory and studied with Jesse Van Ruller. In 2004, he was awarded the first prize at the Dutch Jazz Competition for his composition Gym Jam. The following year, he received a scholarship grant for the master's program at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York with the teachers Rodney Jones, Dave Liebman and Phil Markowitz.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The programme for this Sunday matinee also includes works by Bach, Mozart, Fauré and Saint-Saëns that have been arranged for this instrument.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a matinee with the Tenerife-born organist Juan Luis Bardón this Sunday (24th) at 7:30 p.m. in collaboration with the Royal Canary Academy of Fine Arts (RACBA). The concert De Transcriptos y Colores Orquestales (orchestral transcripts and colours) will take place at noon at the Symphony Hall as part of the Auditorium's organ concert cycle.

The performance will begin with compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The first work will be St Matthew Passion: Memento's Final Chorus, arranged by Charles-Marie Widor. Bardón chose Bach's The Concerto in D minor (on Antonio Vivaldi) BWV 596 as the second piece.

The programme continues with the overture to the comic opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), composed by the Austrian pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with organ arrangements by Louis Robilliard.

Bardón will continue with Sicilienne, from Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80, by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), also arranged by Robilliard. The French pianist and organist composed this suite as incidental music, from which this movement is taken.

Next, the organist will perform movements from Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), arranged by S. Y. Lee. The French composer's entire piece consists of 14 movements, of which Bardón will play five.

The concert will end with Cornfield Chase, from the original soundtrack of Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan and composed by the German Hans Zimmer (1957). On this occasion, the arrangements for the organ were made by Juan Luis Bardón himself.

The Tenerife-born organist undertook his professional studies in the speciality of piano at the Professional Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in the speciality of organ at the Professional Conservatoire Ángel Barrios of Granada, at the end of which he received the Extraordinary Prize of Professional Music Teaching of the Regional Government of Andalusia. Throughout his career, he has received masterclasses from renowned performers on the national and international scene, such as Montserrat Torrent, Juan de la Rubia, Roberto Fresco, Bernhard Hass, Matteo Imbruno, Erwin Wiersinga and Paolo Crivellaro, among others.

The organ of Auditorio de Tenerife was built in the 20th century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team and is considered a unique instrument not only for its design but also for its sound and musical ranges. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall. The organist controls them from onstage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

The tickets for the concert can be purchased at a single price of €15 and 5 euros for the audience under 30 years of age on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.

The Maxwell String Quartet and the Tenerife clarinet player Maximiliano Martín give a concert on Thursday this week.

As part of its Chamber Cycle, the Auditorio de Tenerife will present a concert by the Maxwell Quartet and the Tenerife clarinet player Maximiliano Martín this Thursday [21st]. The performance, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall, will include traditional Scottish and contemporary music.

The concert's first part will feature Worksongs, the latest project from the Maxwell Quartet, exploring the traditional music of their homeland of Scotland. It brings together songs, dances, and stories from times past, borne out of the historic industries that Scotland is renowned for. Worksongs is a historical tour of Scotland's hardworking societies, woven together in the Maxwell Quartet's own impressionistic and sensitive reworkings of traditional songs.

The concert continues with Maximiliano Martín joining the Maxwell Quartet to perform the second piece, Tuireadh, a work by the Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan (1959). With this threnody or funeral wail, the author picks up on the influence of Gaelic psalmody from the British Isles, which still exists today. 

To conclude the evening, the musicians will play the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, op.115, by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). The German pianist and composer composed this chamber music work in four movements in 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.

The Maxwell Quartet, formed in 2010, comprises Elliott Perks on viola, Colin Scobie and George Smith on violin, and Duncan Strachan on cello. The quartet was the First Prize-winner and Audience Prize-winner at the 9^th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Trondheim, Norway 2017. For The Scottish Herald, this ensemble is "brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating". The quartet has toured throughout Europe and the United States during its career and currently holds the position of Associate Artist at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 

Tenerife-born Maximiliano Martín combines his work as principal clarinettist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with solo engagements, chamber music and masterclasses worldwide. Throughout his career, he has collaborated as guest principal clarinettist with orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Abbado, Haitink, Colin Davis and Mackerras. 

The tickets for the concert can be purchased at a single price of €15 and 5 euros for the audience under 30 years of age on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families. 

This Sunday's performances are part of the Primavera Musical cycle.

On Sunday (17), the wind bands Arona, Alcaraván and Las Candelas offer a concert in the Auditorio de Tenerife's Chamber Hall. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. and is part of the Primavera Musical cycle, organised by the wind bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' with the support of Tenerife Island Council.

The concert band from Arona was created 35 years ago and will open the performance.  Conducted by Juan Antonio Rancel Tejera, the ensemble will begin its concert with El arca de Noé, by Óscar Navarro, and will continue with Danzas cubanas, by Robert Sheldon.

The second wind band on stage this Sunday in the Chamber Hall will be the Asociación Artística Alcaraván, from San Juan de la Rambla, which has its origins in the late 19^th century. They offer the repertoire Brisas de Anaga, by Manuel Castrejón Navarro, A Catedral, by José Luis Peiró Reig, and The Lion King, with arrangements by John Higgins, conducted by Miguel Ángel Arrocha Rodríguez.  

The Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes the band Las Candelas and its programme, featuring the world premiere of the work Kepler 438-b, by José Manuel Encinoso, which will be the first piece to be performed by the ensemble from Candelaria, conducted by Mauro Fariña Alonso. The performance is completed with Magellan's Voyage to the Unknown Continent, by Masanori Taruya, and Fanfare, by Roque Baños.

The Primavera Musical cycle has been organised by the wind bands federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' since 2005 with the support of Tenerife Island Council. As part of this campaign, the public can listen to the 37 wind bands that shape the association in the Auditorio de Tenerife's Chamber Hall.

Formaciones de música de cámara, percusión y viento participan en la cita de este sábado

El alumnado del Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife ofrece este sábado (día 16) un concierto en la Sala Cámara del Auditorio de Tenerife. Las formaciones que intervienen son de música de cámara, percusión y el conjunto de saxofones del centro. El evento comienza a las 18:00 horas y la entrada es libre hasta completar aforo. 

Los alumnos de percusión que intervendrán en este concierto son Aruna Beuster, Enrique Fernández, Guillermo Monreal, Miguel Mira, Jorge Mira, Jonay González, Ethan Gabriel Aricoma, Emilia Díaz, Roberto Carlos Rodríguez, Hugo López, Óscar Gregorio García, Alberto Hernández, Néstor García, Gabriel Vélez, Eduardo García, Pablo Hernández, Adriel López, Asiel Padrón, Pablo Daniel García y Guillermo Almeida. El grupo de la especialidad de percusión está dirigido por Emilio Díaz, Verónica Cagigao y Carlos Castañeda.

Para este concierto han preparado un programa que incluye Invention n.º 4 en Re m. BWV 775, de Bach, Invention 4º, de Bach, Invention 8º, de Bach, Sefia 2, de Emmanuel Séjourné, Red Bone, de Emmanuel Séjourné, Stick Schtick, de Chris Brooks, Irlanda, de José Encinoso, Malambo, de Alberto Ginastera con arreglos de José Encinoso, La Farruca del Molinero, de Manuel Falla con arreglos de José Encinoso y Malagueñas canarias, con arreglos de Emilio Díaz.

La formación de música de cámara, dirigida por Ruth Albertos y con la participación de Andrea Suárez, Andrés Rodríguez, Katherine Cheng Zhu, Raúl Marichal y Román Khomenko, ha elaborado un repertorio con las obras Café de 1930, de Astor Piazzolla; Per pietá, Belle ídol mío, del compositor italiano Vincenzo Bellini, y Serranas de Cuenca de Enrique Granados.

Para finalizar el concierto, el conjunto de saxofones -integrado por una docena de alumnos de 3º y 4º-, dirigido por Francisco Dorta, ofrece las piezas A song for Japan, de Steven Verhelst, Gershwin Favourites, de Roland Kernen y Sud-America, de Lino Florenzo. Los alumnos que intervienen son Saúl Báez, David Otto, Nicole Daniela Pérez, Alejandra Serra, Jaime Brito, Aurora María Aldoman, Alonso Medina, Sarah Hiraldo y Jesús David Hernández. 

Con esta propuesta, el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife quiere exhibir la labor y el nivel que desempeñan sus alumnos junto con el profesorado en las diferentes especialidades que imparte. Este concierto se incluye dentro de las actividades fuera del centro que recoge el programa educativo.