Festival de Música de Canarias 2027: programme, prices and when season tickets and tickets go on sale

With the programme and prices now published, the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias opens sales of new season tickets for its 43rd edition on Monday 2 November. There will be 56 concerts across the eight islands between 9 January and 4 February 2027, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as the main draws, and María Dueñas, Nadine Sierra and Javier Perianes among the soloists.

The major orchestras at FIMC 2027 and their dates

The core of the festival is the season-ticket concerts, which are repeated in the archipelago's two symphony halls: the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and the Auditorio de Tenerife, in Santa Cruz. Almost all of them start at 19:30; exceptions are shown in brackets.

• Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with Robin Ticciati and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras: 9 January in Gran Canaria and 10 January in Tenerife (19:00). Dvořák, a work by Lotta Wennäkoski and Beethoven's Fifth, marking the bicentenary of his death.
• Sinfónica de Tenerife, with Pablo González and pianist Francesco Piemontesi: 12 January in Tenerife and 13 in Gran Canaria. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and the New World Symphony.
• Vienna Symphony Orchestra, with Petr Popelka and María Dueñas: 23 January in Gran Canaria and 24 in Tenerife (19:00). The violinist from Granada plays Samuel Barber's Concerto, which, according to the organisers, has not been heard at the festival for more than 25 years.
• Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, with Karel Mark Chichon: 26 January in Gran Canaria and 27 in Tenerife, with Mahler's Seventh, which the orchestra will perform for the first time.
• London Philharmonic Orchestra, with Karina Canellakis and Javier Perianes: 29 January in Gran Canaria and 30 in Tenerife. Beethoven and Brahms's First.
• Royal Opera of Versailles Orchestra, with Victor Jacob and soprano Nadine Sierra, both making their festival debut: 31 January in Gran Canaria (19:00) and 1 February in Tenerife. This is the tribute to the centenary of Alfredo Kraus's birth, with arias by Mozart and Donizetti and overtures by Rossini and Zingarelli.
• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Klaus Mäkelä: programme I with Lisa Batiashvili on 1 February in Gran Canaria and 3 in Tenerife; programme II, with Schumann and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, on 2 February in Gran Canaria and 4 in Tenerife.

The return of the Concertgebouw, more than twenty years after its last visit to the festival, is the most striking finale, and its first programme is no longer exactly the one announced in September. At that time there was talk of two Sevenths, Sibelius's and Beethoven's; the programme now published opens with Schumann's Manfred Overture and keeps Sibelius's Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Seventh.

There is one detail worth checking before choosing a season ticket: the Concertgebouw's two programmes are in different season tickets. Anyone wanting to hear both will need both season tickets or will have to buy a single ticket in December.

What's on in each island outside the main auditoriums

The rest of the programme is split between the special concerts and the En Paralelo section, which takes the festival to theatres and auditoriums across the archipelago. In Gran Canaria and Tenerife, it adds, in smaller venues, Mozart's Requiem by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir with Ton Koopman (Teatro Pérez Galdós, 28 January, and Teatro Leal, 29), Julia Fischer's quartet, Antonio Serrano's flamenco jazz and a screening of Mariposas Negras, David Baute's animated film, with its soundtrack played live under the baton of its composer, Diego Navarro. In September, screenings were announced on five islands; the current programme keeps three: Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

On the non-capital islands, the calendar is as follows:

• La Palma: Julia Fischer Quartett (10 January, Teatro Circo de Marte, €25), Filarmónica de Gran Canaria with pianist Isaac Martínez Mederos (16 January, €25), the show On Air (22 January), Perinké Big Band (24 January, €5), Suite Atlántica (27 January, €15) and La forma del silencio (30 January, €15).
• Lanzarote: Camerata Iberia (10 January), Jazz Caló (14 January), Perinké Big Band (16 January), Mariposas Negras (20 January, Jameos del Agua), On Air (23 January), Sinfónica de Tenerife with Pacho Flores (30 January, Jameos del Agua, €25) and La forma del silencio (3 February).
• Fuerteventura: Camerata Iberia (11 January), Perinké Big Band (15 January), On Air (24 January), Sinfónica de Tenerife with Pacho Flores (29 January, €25), pianist Daniel Pereira's recital of Beethoven sonatas (2 February, €15) and La forma del silencio (4 February).
• La Gomera: Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (17 January), Perinké Big Band (23 January), Suite Atlántica (28 January) and La forma del silencio (31 January).
• El Hierro: Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (15 January), Perinké Big Band (17 January), Suite Atlántica (29 January) and La forma del silencio (1 February).
• La Graciosa: Camerata Iberia opens the festival there on 9 January, with Renaissance music.

Shows that are repeated cost the same on every island: €5 for the Perinké Big Band family concert, €15 for Camerata Iberia, Jazz Caló, Suite Atlántica and La forma del silencio, and €25 for the concerts by the two Canarian orchestras. La forma del silencio is the tour by Mario Marzo and Nacho Castellanos, the creators of the music education podcast El Vomitorio, with a repertoire they choose and present at each recital.

How much season tickets and tickets for the Festival de Música de Canarias cost

There are two season tickets of four concerts each, for Gran Canaria or for Tenerife, and prices are the same on both islands. Season Ticket 1 brings together the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Versailles with Nadine Sierra and the Concertgebouw's second programme. Season Ticket 2, the more expensive one, combines the Sinfónica de Tenerife, Vienna with María Dueñas, London with Perianes and the Concertgebouw's first programme.

The standard season ticket gives a 10% discount on the box office price, and buying both gives 20%. The Youth Season Ticket offers a 50% or 60% discount. Single tickets for the season-ticket concerts range from €15, in the cheapest area for the Canarian orchestras, to €90, in the best area for the Concertgebouw. Vienna and London cost between €35 and €80. Buying the four Season Ticket 1 concerts individually in area A would cost €230, compared with €205 for the season ticket.

The non-capital islands have their own season tickets, with a 25% discount: €35 in Lanzarote, €45 in Fuerteventura, La Gomera and El Hierro and €50 in La Palma. They will go on sale in November, with no date yet, through Ecoentradas, except those for the Teatro Circo de Marte, which will be sold on Tomaticket.

At the presentation, the festival also announced €3 tickets for music students and unemployed people, with part of the capacity reserved, and a 30% last-minute discount from 45 minutes before the season-ticket concerts. Bear in mind that the festival warns it will not refund a ticket for reasons beyond the organisers' control.

When season tickets and tickets go on sale

Season ticket renewals ended on 14 October and the seat relocation period for season ticket holders ends today, 28 October. From then on, the calendar is as follows:

• From 2 to 20 November: new season tickets at the venues in the two capitals. To buy them at the festival offices, you need to book an appointment by phone, on 928 24 74 43 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) or 922 53 18 35 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife).
• From 24 November to 4 December: single tickets for season ticket holders only.
• From Wednesday 16 December, at 10:00: tickets for the general public, on the official website and at the box offices of the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, the Teatro Pérez Galdós, the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro Leal, among others.

Deadlines, points of sale and box office opening hours are on the festival's season tickets and tickets page; the festival is organised by the Gobierno de Canarias through the Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural. It is the same calendar that was announced when the festival presented its 2027 edition in September; what is new is that the full programme and the cost of each seat are now known.

Anyone looking for other events in the first months of the year can check the festival calendar for January to March 2027, and those held on the islands are in the guide to festivals in the Canary Islands.

Sources: Gobierno de Canarias (press release of 7 September 2026) and the official website of the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias (home page, concerts, season tickets and tickets, and PDF programme), consulted on 28 October 2026.