Joel Rodríguez
29/11/2024 – CASA DEL CONDE ARGUAL, LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, LA PALMA (Tickets: Casa del Conde)
He was born in Tenerife in 1998 and from an early age he felt a great interest in music, taking his first steps with the typical instrument of the Canary Islands, the timple. At the age of seven he was already part of different folk groups and at the age of twelve he had a clear vocation, beginning his guitar studies at the Conservatorio Profesional de Tenerife and finishing his studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Tenerife in 2022. He has participated in the Maestros en Guitarra Orchestra and has taken part in various television programmes. In 2017 he won First Prize for timple in the II Memorial Miguel Ángel Negrín timple competition. He has won twice the First Prize for guitar at the International Guitar Competition of the ‘Fundación Canaria Blas Sánchez’ (Fuerteventura), and also the First Prize for timple. In 2018 he won First Prize at the Concurso de Jóvenes Guitarristas Náquera Sona (Valencia), taking him on a short tour of the Peninsula. In 2020 he was a finalist in the International Guitar Competition Gemona del Friuli (Italy) and in 2021 he was awarded in Iscart International Online Music Competition.
He has participated in the album ‘Aroba’ premiering the concert for timple and band in D minor by José Manuel Encinoso and in the album ‘Alisios’ by the Tenerife Guitar Quartet.
