CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
from January 10 to February 16, 2025
A ´heads up´ from Norman Warwick
Creative diversity in the history of music will return to the islands in early 2025. A work created in 2006 will ring out the first bars of the 41st Canary Islands International Music Festival (FIMC) on January 10. Five weeks and 61 concerts later, on February 16, the edition will conclude with a score from 1903. A time span of more than a century, but covering more than one hundred works from the 18th century to the present, more than a thousand musicians from around the world, prestigious soloists and conductors, subscription and extraordinary concerts, a Parallel Festival… And all of this on 21 stages across the eight islands, organized by the Canary Islands Government.
In January and February 2025, major orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, the Warsaw Symphony, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Salzburg Camerata, the Munich Philharmonic and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande will be visiting the archipelago, in addition to the two host orchestras, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic and the Tenerife Symphony. Musical icons such as piano legend Grigory Sokolov and the Vienna Boys’ Choir will also be joining the event, in an edition that will have a leading instrument: the violin, with figures such as Pinchas Zukerman, Hilary Hahn, Midori, Leonidas Kavakos, María Dueñas and Lisa Batiashvilli.
Lanzarote Concert 1
10 January Jameos del Agua 8 pm
TENERIFE SYMPHONY
The extraordinary concert programme of the 41st FIMC kicks off with an ensemble from the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra , which will perform in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura under the direction of Swedish clarinetist Martin Froest , with a programme dedicated to Mozart – in which Froest will be the soloist of the Clarinet Concerto – and with the premiere of a work by the Canarian composer Manuel Bonino .
MARTIN FROEST, Director
M. Bonino: “Touch your mouth…” – Premiere. Work commissioned by FIMC
WA Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
WA Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Single price – 25€
Lanzarote Concert 2
ENSEMBLE NASMÉ
16/1/2025 at 8.00pm Tickets 15€
Victor Fernandez Gopar
Ensemble Nasmé is a new chamber ensemble that brings together five formidable musicians from different parts of Palestine, who will tour the islands with Michael Barenboim , violinist, son of the legendary Argentine pianist of Hebrew origin, Daniel Barenboim.
Chamber works by Rossini, Dvorak, Mozart and Palestinian Songs and Dances by Roustom will be performed on stages in, Lanzarote by
Fadwa Qamhia (double bass)
Hisham Khoury (violin)
Katia Abdel Kader (viola)
Soheil Kanaan (cello)
Ibrahim Alshaikh (clarinet)
Michael Barenboim, violin
G. ROSSINI: Sonata for four pieces no. 3
A. DVORAK: String Quintet No. 2
K. ROUSTOM: Palestinian Songs and Dances for quartet and clarinet
WA MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 “Stadler Quintet”
Lanzarote Concert 3
SARAH WILLIS
& LAS PALMAS SYMPHONY GC
Lanzarote Jameos del Agua
17/1/2025 8.OO Tickets 15 €
‘Mozart & Mambo’ is the programme that the Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra will offer #EnParalelo, together with Sarah Willis , principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Jose Mendez, Director
Sarah Willis, French Horn
Jorge Aragon, Piano
(Members of Sarahbanda )
” Mozart & Mambo “
R. Egües / arr. Jorge Aragón: The Winemaker
WA Mozart: Divertimento Kv.138
WA Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 K.447
J. Davis / Y. Lombida: “Rondo alla Mambo” for horn and orchestra
J. Peña: “Samba-Son” for string orchestra and percussion
I. Carrillo / arr. Jorge Aragón: “Two Gardenias” for horn, trumpet and orchestra
M. Simons / arr: Jorge Aragón: “El Manisero” for horn, trumpet and orchestra
Lanzarote Concert 4
GRAN CANARIA WIND ORCHESTRA 25 January 8.00 pm Tickets 15€
Victor Fernandez Gopar Theatre Arrecife
Another well-established island group, Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra, is joining the #EnParalelo programme with ‘Siglo XX – Música de cámara para vientos’, which includes works by R. Kurka, K. Weill and A. Gorb. Under the direction of David Fiuza , they will play in El Hierro, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
R. Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Suite
K. Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
A. Gorb: Yiddish Dances
Lanzarote Concert 5
TROVERS OF ASIETA
& ALFREDO DE LA FÉ
Lanzarote 8/2/2025 20:00 Tickets 15€
Victor Fernandez Gopar Theater Arrecife
Alfredo de la Fe , a Cuban violinist based in New York, will accompany the Canarian group Troveros de Asieta in the concerts that culminate #EnParalelo. They will play in La Gomera, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, with a programme where the protagonist will be the violin adapted to Latin rhythms, De la Fe’s speciality. Precisely with a work of his authorship, he will conclude the proposed programme, which includes thirteen pieces by Cuban and Canarian authors.
Francis Concepción: Voice and Guitar
Pedro Brito: Cuban Cuatro and Voice
Fran Martín “Ciani”: Voice and Minor Percussion
José Humberto Martín: Trumpet and choirs
Oscar Herrera: Trumpet
Carlos Perdomo: Baby Bass
Jhony Olivares: Percussion
David Platero: Percussion
Alberto Martin: Piano
- Intro Conga (Alberto Martin)
- Innocent Drunk (Alberto Martin)
- The evil of hypocrisy (Adalberto Álvarez)
- My only mouth (Miguel Matamoros)
- Rumba is me (Norberto Shand Garnett)
- The last night (Bobby Collazo)
- Zambia (Rene Hernandez)
- Bilongo (Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe)
- The little look (Cesar Hechavarria)
- I do eat Candela (Félix Chappottín)
- Weaving time (Cesar Hechavarria)
- The little sandunguita (Isaac Delgado)
- To enjoy (Alfredo de la Fé)
Lanzarote Concert 6
VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR
Lanzarote 13/2/2025 8:00 PM Tickets 30€
Victor Fernandez Gopar Theatre Arrecife
A true cultural institution in Central Europe, the Vienna Boys’ Choir is perhaps the most famous choir in the world. They will be in the Canary Islands nine years after their last performance on the islands. The current generation of young voices will be conducting under the direction of Oliver Stech, with a programme entitled ‘Homage to Johann Strauss and his contemporaries’.
