On Tour - Canary Islands Festival 2025
The NDR Radiophilharmonie played at the International Canary Islands Music Festival 2025. The festival will take place on Gran Canaria and Tenerife, as well as on other stages on the rest of the Canary Islands.
The new chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Stanislav Kochanovsky, started his position six months ago. And now they start the first international tour together with the Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov, they went to Gran Canaria and Tenerife for the 41st International Canary Islands Music Festival. And in the best company.
The orchestra manager Matthias Ilkenhans is blown away by the trip: "The Canary Islands tour was fantastic! We performed at a large, renowned festival, alongside orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Munich Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande and gave two sold-out concerts in spectacular halls right on the water. The audience - very mixed in terms of age and, in my opinion, predominantly local - celebrated the soloist and the orchestra with great cheers."
© Canary Island Festival, Foto: Raquel Berciano Cavero