The Young Orchestra of Canary Islands (Jocan) has already started his 20th meeting at the Higher Conservatory of Music in Tenerife with rehearsals to prepare for the concerts New Year that they will offer in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, as a prelude to the 40th edition of the Canary Islands International Music Festival. The general director of Cultural Innovation, Cristóbal de la Rosa and the chief conductor of the orchestra, Víctor Pablo Pérez, together with the director of the DISA Foundation, Sara Mateos, an entity that collaborates with the training with a scholarship program, visited the rehearsal headquarters yesterday.
The scholarship instrumentalists have been able to share their feelings about these concerts, as well as their careers and how they will use the amounts received, aimed at expanding their training and improving and acquiring musical instruments.
The collaboration of DISA Foundation with Jocan It takes place within the framework of the entity’s high commitment to arts and culture, especially those with special roots in the Canary Islands and aimed at the young population of the islands. All of this within its objective of promoting values such as teamwork, effort and the desire to improve, something that fully identifies both the Foundation and a project like the Young Orchestra of the Canary Islands.
Preparations with the 75 training participants began yesterday, December 26, and will last until a few hours before the first concert, which will be the 1st at the Tenerife Auditorium. The next day they will be in Gran Canaria and on January 3 at the Fuerteventura Training and Congress Palace. Beforehand, they will receive advice from an exquisite team of teachers brought from different parts of the world to prepare the chosen program. This time it is Rachmaninov’s piano concerto No. 2, with the extraordinary participation of the Russian pianist Nikolai Luganski, one of the best specialists on this composer; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.
Thus, The Canary Islands welcome 2024 with a display of classical music that will begin with the three Jocan concerts and will continue from January 10 with nearly 70 concerts from the Canary Islands Music Festival, organized by the Culture area of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Described by Gramophone as “the most pioneering and meteoric performer of all”, he is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. He is known for his exquisite performances of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chopin and Debussy, in addition to having received numerous awards for his recordings and artistic merits. He has maintained a long relationship with top-level conductors such as and has been invited by the main international orchestras.
