PROGRAM

Concert per a piano núm. 5 en mi bemoll major, «Emperador», op. 73.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

Allegro
Allegro un poco mosso
Rondo: Allegro ma non tropo

Simfonia núm. 9 en mi bemoll major, op. 70.

Dmitri Xostakóvitx (1906 – 1975)

Allegro
Moderato
Presto
Largo
Allegretto – Allegro

Marxa fúnebre de «The Great Citizen», op. 55.

Dmitri Xostakóvitx

PAUL LEWIS

Paul Lewis is internationally renowned as one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation. His Beethoven’s and Schubert’s fundamental piano works cycles have been widely acclaimed by critics and audiences worldwide, establishing his reputation as one of the leading performers for the Central European classical repertoire.

His multiple awards comprise the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison Awards, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason D’or de l’Année, the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Award and the South Bank Show Classical Music Award. Lewis holds honorary doctorates from the Liverpool, Edge Hill, and Southampton Universities. He was also appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016.

He regularly collaborates as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NHK Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw. Moreover, he has performed with the Cleveland Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Philharmonia and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE TENERIFE

Founded in 1935 as the Canary Islands Chamber Orchestra, the Tenerife Symphony is one of Spain’s most prestigious musical institutions. Assigned to the Cabildo of Tenerife’s Insular Board of Music, it has enlisted seven senior conductors, including Víctor Pablo Pérez, its current conductor laureate.

As the resident orchestra at the Tenerife Auditorium, it features its symphonic season, collaborates with the Tenerife Opera, and takes part in the Canary Islands International Music Festival. With more than thirty recordings with labels such as Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, they have taken their music to Europe and Asia and have been recognised with awards such as the Ondas in 1996.

They have worked with artists such as Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, Krystian Zimerman, Mischa Maisky and Leonidas Kavakos. A cultural emblem of the Cabildo, the Tenerife Symphony balances its symphonic legacy with new artistic explorations while sustaining a steady educational and social commitment to bringing music closer to all of society, inside and outside the Canary Islands.

VÍCTOR PABLO PÉREZ

Born in Burgos, he attended the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Regarded as one of the great Spanish values of orchestral conducting, he was the Asturias Symphony Orchestra’s (1980 – 1988) and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra’s (1986 – 2005) artistic and chief conductor, establishing the latter as a musical benchmark in Spain. From 1993 to 2013, he conducted the Galician Symphony Orchestra, with which he achieved unanimous acknowledgement. Between 2013 and 2021, he was the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid’s (ORCAM) chief and artistic conductor and the Teatro de la Zarzuela’s chief conductor.

He collaborates with the Teatro Real de Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and festivals such as those of the Canary Islands, Peralada, Granada, Santander, Schleswig-Holstein and Rossini Opera Festival. He has conducted most of the Spanish orchestras and has been invited by ensembles such as the Berlin Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon.

He has worked with renowned soloists such as Krystian Zimerman, Arcadi Volodos, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gil Shaham, Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming. Among his awards, the National Music Award (1995), the Gold Medal for Fine Arts (1999) and the Tenerife and Galicia orchestras’ Honorary Conductor Laureate titles stand out.

He has conducted emblematic projects such as the program presenting the ninth symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler on World Music Day 2017. He is currently the chief and artistic director of the Canary Islands Youth Orchestra.