Canary Islands Music Festival

With more than forty editions, the Canary Islands Music Festival is one of the major winter events in the international classical music circuit, which places the Canary Islands and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the spotlight of fans from all over the world.

Great orchestras and soloists come together every year in January and February at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, the main stage of the festival in the capital of Gran Canaria, and also in other venues such as the Pérez Galdós Theater and the Guiniguada Theater.

Conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel; soloists of the stature of Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mstislav Rostropovich, Krystian Zimerman, Ivo Pogorelich, Yo Yo Ma; and top level ensembles, such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, have taken to the stages of the Canary Islands Music Festival.