Ticket Information: Tickets are available at the American Bank Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets including FYE Music Store, Foley's in Padre Staples Mall, select H-E-B's,* or charge by phone at (361) 881-8499.

*Select H-E-B's:
3500 Leopard
10241 S Padre Island
5313 Saratoga
11100 Leopard – Calallen
3133 S. Alameda
409 E.Kleberg - Kingsville
1115 E. Main Street - Alice

About the Orchestra: ARTS San Antonio is proud to present, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra of the Canary Islands, performing La Zarzuela and other classical pieces in an evening of musical resplendence at American Bank Center Selena Auditorium.

On an exclusive five-city tour of Texas, the world-renown Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will be in Corpus Christi, for a one night engagement under the artistic direction of acclaimed conductor, Edmon Colomer. Soprano, Ra quel Lojendio and the orchestra of 78 will delight audiences with the Spanish form of lite opera, La Zarzuela by noted composers, Fernando Chueca, Jose Serrano, Ruperto Chapi, Federico Chueca and Pablo Luna. The orchestra will also perform pieces by noted composers Enrique Granados, Manuel de la Falla, Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov and Jeronimo Gimenez. The Texas exclusive will include shows in Houston, Ft. Worth, Laredo and San Antonio.

The concert is July 6th at 8:00pm at American Bank Center Selena Auditorium. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 26th at 10am. Tickets are $15.00, $25.00, and $30.00 and will be available at the American Bank Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (361) 881-8499.

ARTS San Antonio is a not-for-profit organization committed to making world-class performing arts available to the surrounding community. This event is sponsored by the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Friends of the Canary Islands, Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands.

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra revolutionized the way of understanding orchestras in Spain starting with the meteoric national and international success that it enjoyed in the eighties, when the resident conductor, Victor Pablo Perez, achieved a sound and technical perfection that put it in the vanguard of Spanish ensembles.

Created in 1935 as the Canary Islands Chamber Orchestra, it was conducted from the start by the Maestro Santiago Sabina. Then between 1968 and 1985 this responsibility fell upon the Maestro Armando Alfonso. In 1970 it became known as the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. In the 1985/86 season, it was conducted by Edmon Colomer. From 1986 to June 2006 the Maestro Victor Pablo Perez held this position. In July 2006, the conductor of Chinese origin, Lu Jia, was appointed Artistic Director.

A large number of its twenty-eight recordings have obtained highly-significant Spanish and international awards, such as the Cannes Classical Awards, Grand Prix de l'Academie Francaise du disque lyrique, Premio Ondas (in 1992 and 1996), the Choc award of Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason D'Or (on 1994 and 1995), as well as prizes for the best disc of the year from the magazines, CD Compact and Ritmo.