Young talent is making its way at the Canary Islands International Music Festival (FIMC) with an attractive piano event by Gabriel Ducatenzeiler Kapp from Gran Canaria, one of the most promising musicians of his generation in the archipelago. Winner of the Orán Music Prize in 2024, the pianist will star in a 'cinematic' tour, with three extraordinary concerts in venues in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and El Hierro.
Ducatenzeiler is participating in the FIMC with an artistic proposal titled ‘The Piano Tells: Stories of Cinema and Music’. Through it, he explores the relationship between classical repertoire and the seventh art with scores that span from the Baroque to great piano works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin, in addition to a piece by the Canarian composer Laura Vega.
The tour begins this Friday, January 23, at the Convento Santo Domingo in Teguise (Lanzarote), will continue on Saturday, January 24, at the Auditorium of Antigua (Fuerteventura) and will culminate on Sunday, January 25, from the Auditorio de La Peña (El Hierro), all at 8:00 PM. Tickets are available at www.festivaldecanarias.com and on the usual platforms for these venues.
Born into a family of musicians, where his artistic vocation began to take shape, Dukatenzeiler has had the opportunity to train at renowned institutions in Spain and Germany, and since then his rise has been unstoppable, with several awards for his performances and an incipient career as a concert artist.
He received his first accolades when he was just 12 years old, when he won first prize nationally in the Jugend Musizierte competition, which he won again two years later, along with a third prize in the German national finals in the piano four-hands category.
At 22 years old, it should be noted that he has been a scholarship holder since 2023 of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Leipzig foundation, which allows him to regularly share his music in nursing homes and mental health centers, reaffirming his commitment to music in service of the Community
A movie program
His participation in the FIMC will begin with Aria – Goldberg Variations, one of the most recognized piano melodies by Johann Sebastian Bach, and perhaps also one of the most beautiful representations of the Baroque style. It is so popular that it has been included in film soundtracks on multiple occasions, as is the case with ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, ‘Solaris’, or ‘The English Patient’.
The contemporary (and insular) counterpoint will arrive next with the work Bachiana Canariense by the Gran Canarian composer Laura Vega. Premiered at the 2023 Contemporary Festival of the FIMC itself, the piece generates a dialogue between Bach's heritage and elements of Canarian cultural identity through the sound of the piano.
The program will continue with a wide selection of works taken from the great piano masters of all time. Starting with Etude Op. 39 No. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the first of his six studies and recognized for its unique visual (almost cinematic) sense. Then it will be the turn of Ludwig van Beethoven and his Sonata No. 30 in E Major Op. 109, one of the German genius's last piano sonatas, notable for its free structure and lyrical character.
The following piece will be Consolation No. 3, by **Franz Liszt**, a work with a marked nocturnal and sentimental character, which has also appeared in films such as the classic 'Obsession'.The concerts will culminate with Frédéric Chopin's Ballade No. 1 and Ballade No. 4, two of the Romantic era's masterpieces, which also reveal their author's deepest and most complex sensibilities. The first, moreover, is one of cinema's most iconic melodies due to its central role in the film 'The Pianist'.
