The Lanzarote Visual Music Festival ended its 17th edition on October 22 with a performance by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset. In this way, the event put the finishing touch to two weeks full of avant-garde musical proposals and film screenings related to the career of outstanding contemporary music composers.
Jameos del Agua, the Santo Domingo Convent and the CIC El Almacén were the stages of the festival in which brilliant performances were carried out by local artists Iván Vilella and Nico Hernández & Simone Marin, the Dutch North Sea String Quartet accompanying the Canarian guitarist Javier Infante, the Italian duo O-Janà with Michele Rabbia, the vocal group led by Aurora Bauzá and Pere Jou called “We Are (T)here”, and the quartet led by the guitarist Eivind Aarset, who delighted the audience in each of their appointments.

The cultural center "El Almacén" also hosted the screening of the documentary films “Max Richter's Sleep”, by Natalie Jones, and “Ennio: the master, by Giuseppe Tornatore”, which sold out all locations.
Ildefonso Aguilar, creator and director of the Festival and creator of the design of lights and visual effects of most of the concerts, is committed to the continuity of an event that will reach the age of majority in the next edition, for which he is already working, and that highlights the artistic quality of a project conceived and designed for the natural spaces of Lanzarote and that has become, on its own merits, one of the most prominent European references of contemporary music.

For his part, Alberto Aguiar, Minister of Culture of the Cabildo, makes a very positive assessment of the 17th edition of the Visual Music Festival of the Island, highlighting that it has been possible to reach a younger audience that is less accustomed to receiving musical proposals of this type and that allow to expand the stimulus and perception of what musical creation means.