Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias2027 edition

Meet the artists

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  Chamber Orchestra of Europe

  London, United Kingdom · Sun 10 Jan

  Orchestra formed in 1981 by former members of the European Community Youth Orchestra, based in London and run as a charity. Its Tenerife date pairs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, with the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with Robin Ticciati.

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  Julia Fischer Quartet

  Germany · Mon 11 Jan

  String quartet led by the violinist Julia Fischer, born in Munich in 1983, with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Nils Mönkemeyer (viola) and Benjamin Nyffenegger (cello). The group has played together since around 2010–2011. At Teatro Leal it plays Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 5, Bernard Herrmann’s Echoes and Dvořák’s Quartet No. 14.

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  Sinfónica de Tenerife

  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain · Tue 12 Jan

  The island’s symphony orchestra, resident at the Auditorio de Tenerife; it traces back to 1935 as the Orquesta de Cámara de Canarias and took its present name in 1970. Pablo González, its guest principal conductor since September 2025, leads Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and “New World” Symphony, with the pianist Francesco Piemontesi in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto.

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  Antonio Serrano

  Madrid, Spain · Fri 15 Jan

  Harmonica player born in Madrid in 1974 who moves between jazz, flamenco and classical music and received Spain’s Premio Nacional de las Músicas Actuales in 2025. His Jazz Caló quartet, with Kaele Jiménez (piano), Marc Miralta (percussion) and Josué “Ronkio” (bass), plays pieces by Paco de Lucía, Vicente Amigo and Chick Corea alongside its own compositions, in the festival’s #En Paralelo strand.

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  Diego Navarro

  Tenerife, Spain · Tue 19 Jan

  Composer and conductor from Tenerife who founded FIMUCITÉ, the Tenerife film-music festival, in 2007. At Teatro Leal he conducts a 33-player chamber orchestra in a live performance of his score for the animated feature Mariposas Negras (2024, directed by David Baute) while the film is screened, the first live-to-picture concert the festival has programmed.

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  Laia Falcón

  Thu 21 Jan

  Soprano and author of the book La ópera. Voz, emoción y personaje. On Air, which premiered in 2021, pays tribute to the musical stravaganza Orson Welles and Cole Porter wrote on Around the World in 80 Days and sets its songs beside early twentieth-century art songs and 1940s stage and film melodies from Egypt, India, China and Japan. She appears with the pianist Alberto Rosado, the violinist Aitzol Iturriagagoitia, the clarinettist José Luis Estellés, the cellist David Apellániz and the presenter Martín Llade.

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  Wiener Symphoniker

  Vienna, Austria · Sun 24 Jan

  Vienna orchestra founded in 1900 as the Wiener Concertverein and based at the Konzerthaus since 1913; Petr Popelka has been its chief conductor since the 2024–25 season. In Santa Cruz it plays Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, Barber’s Violin Concerto with María Dueñas and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.

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  Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria

  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain · Wed 27 Jan

  The Gran Canaria philharmonic, established in its present form in 1980 and tracing its roots to a 1845 orchestra of the Sociedad Filarmónica. Karel Mark Chichon conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony in its Tenerife date.

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  Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

  Amsterdam, Netherlands · Fri 29 Jan

  Ensemble founded by the conductor Ton Koopman, with the orchestra dating from 1979 and the choir from 1992. At Teatro Leal, in one of the festival’s extraordinary concerts, it performs Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and his Requiem.

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  London Philharmonic Orchestra

  London, United Kingdom · Sat 30 Jan

  Orchestra founded in 1932 by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent and resident at the Royal Festival Hall since 1993. Karina Canellakis, its principal guest conductor, leads Beethoven’s Egmont overture, his First Piano Concerto with Javier Perianes and Brahms’s First Symphony.

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  Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

  Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wed 3 Feb

  Amsterdam orchestra founded in 1888 that received the “Royal” title in 1988. Under Klaus Mäkelä it gives two Tenerife concerts: the first with Schumann’s Manfred overture, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, the second (4 February) with Schumann’s First Symphony and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

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