Winter cycle · Island classical music · Auditorio Alfredo Kraus and Auditorio de Tenerife

Merch for Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias — Canarias, Spain

Name: Merch Spain
Address: ES

For invited orchestras, sponsors, record labels, communications offices of soloists, music critics and visiting cultural press attending the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias (FIMC) who need tour apparel, giveaways for subscribers, gifts for regional authorities, packs for patrons and press kits before the first island concert. Coverage of the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, January and February cycle, production from the peninsular hub with consolidation in Las Palmas or Santa Cruz and air or maritime delivery to the orchestra hotel or directly to the Auditorium. EUR + 21% VAT via FACe / SII (AEAT), with reverse charge for intra-EU clients holding a valid VIES number and exemption for shipments outside the EU.

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How to plan the merch order for Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias

Dates: January and February cycle — the call and the night-by-night calendar are published on the website of the Gobierno de Canarias and the FIMC artistic direction each autumn.
Venues: Auditorio Alfredo Kraus (symphonic hall) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín (symphonic hall) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Format: Island classical music cycle featuring invited orchestras, international soloists, chamber recitals, contemporary commissions and a Canarian Musical Heritage side programme.

The Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias is one of the most consolidated classical music festivals of the Archipelago and one of the oldest in the Spanish calendar: every winter, since 1985, it brings together invited orchestras and international soloists in a programme that switches between the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. For tours that fly into the islands in mid-winter, the operational challenge is twofold: coordinate the air or maritime shipment from the mainland with the concert calendar and respect the access windows of Auditorios that combine international acoustics with top-tier public capacity.

Air connections between the Peninsula and the Canaries operate year-round (Iberia, Binter, Vueling, Air Europa, Ryanair), but maritime links for merchandise have limited windows and per-pallet costs above the peninsular average. That is why tours and communications offices preparing merch for the FIMC usually work with pre-shipments from a peninsular hub —Madrid with daily air links to Gran Canaria and Tenerife, and also with air connection from Barcelona— to a consolidation point in Las Palmas (Binter Canarias operator from Gran Canaria airport) or Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Binter operator from Tenerife Norte airport), with a final leg by urgent courier to the orchestra hotel or directly to the corresponding Auditorio. The operation is planned in two or three production waves depending on the length of the tour.

The client profile Corp-Merch serves at the Festival includes invited orchestras (frequently the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France or Wiener Symphoniker) who want to take their own merch to the Auditorio, record labels that record or release albums in the islands and give material to specialised critics (Scherzo, Ritmo, Melómano), communications teams of soloists that deliver material to institutional sponsors (Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Cabildo de Tenerife, Gobierno de Canarias), international tour production offices that need staff apparel for the entire island trip, and five-star hotels in Las Palmas and Santa Cruz (Hotel Cristina Las Palmas, Hotel Santa Catalina) that prepare welcome kits for the visiting soloists.

Recommended merch mix for Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias

Island tour apparel

Fine combed cotton polos in soft festival tones, technical organic cotton sweatshirts with FIMC embroidery, light technical jackets for hall rehearsals, white Oxford shirts for the Cabildo reception, thermal t-shirts for backstage, silk scarves with the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus motif, fine rain capes for inter-island trips and technical caps embroidered with the festival coat-of-arms —sizing by instrument and orchestral section, designed for rehearsals, inter-island flights and backstage.

Giveaways for subscribers, critics and island press

Bound programmes with the poster cover, A5 notebooks with floor plan of the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus and Auditorio de Tenerife, fine-tip pens engraved with the Auditorium silhouette, canvas tote bags silkscreened with the cycle calendar, enamel pins with the FIMC seal, stainless steel reusable bottles engraved with the island calendar, bilingual Spanish-English agendas for international critics, and collectible badges per night —220 to 1,400 units per edition depending on cycle capacity.

Gifts for sponsors, patrons and cultural press

Premium notebooks wrapped in Canarian leather, tea wood desk sets (the typical Canarian wood), hand-signed limited editions of the FIMC poster by the artistic director, Canarian gourmet lots (PDO Islas Canarias wine, artisanal gofio, mojo canario, Tenerife almonds, palm honey, PDO Queso de Flor de Guía cheese), and press sets with hall plans, cycle dossier and an Auditorium postcard —50 to 140 premium units per edition.

VIP, institutional and regional authority kits

Numbered premium sets with the festival filigree, art books on Canarian Musical Heritage, numbered limited editions of the Auditorio catalogue, bilingual Spanish-English packaging for EU delegations, named delivery to the sponsor suite at Hotel Santa Catalina (Parque Doramas, Las Palmas) or Hotel Cristina Las Palmas (Calle de Gomera, Las Palmas), or Hotel Mencey (Calle de José del Peso, 200, Santa Cruz de Tenerife), with waybill signed on delivery.

Production and inter-island logistics in the Canaries

The merch operation at the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias is coordinated from the Madrid and Barcelona hubs because of the island air context: the Madrid warehouse handles most graphic and light textile pieces (fine polos, programmes, notebooks) and acts as the air dispatch node to Gran Canaria and Tenerife; Barcelona is used for pieces printed in a Catalan workshop. Delivery is by air (Binter, Iberia Express) or by sea (Naviera Armas, Fred Olsen Express) to a named consignee —the Festival office at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, the sponsor office at Hotel Santa Catalina, or the press office at the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín— with a 24–72 hour window with prior appointment, given that the cycle runs in island winter and the air operation depends on weather.

We hold reserved stock in the Madrid hub for the recurrent pieces —fine polos, programmes, agendas, tote bags— that we can produce and ship in 7–10 working days by sea. For urgent pieces (patron gifts for a concert two weeks out) we operate by air with 24–48 hour delivery. For pieces with personalised embroidery (sponsor coat-of-arms, patron monogram, festival filigree) the window rises to 12–14 working days. For sponsors with bespoke hospitality pieces (numbered sets with Canarian leather, art books for international patrons, limited editions for regional authorities) we recommend locking the order 5–6 weeks before opening day due to production time, air transport and in-hall delivery.

The B2B invoice is issued in EUR with 21% VAT added via FACe (the e-invoicing platform of the Spanish General State Administration) or the real-time VAT ledger of the Suministro Inmediato de Información (SII) at the Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (AEAT); for intra-EU clients with a valid VAT-NIF registered in VIES the reverse-charge rule applies without Spanish VAT; for British and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the relevant article of the EU directive. Each delivery is confirmed with a waybill signed on arrival and, when the client requests it, with a photo of the material unloaded at the Auditorio door.

Recommended order calendar

8–10 weeks before: lock the item list, quantities per island, decoration methods (FIMC coat-of-arms embroidery, silkscreen of the island calendar, transfer for technical pieces) and packs by recipient (orchestra, press, patrons, sponsors).
5–6 weeks before: approve physical or pre-production sample from the Madrid hub, validate colours on textile and review bilingual ES/EN packaging for batches travelling to international patrons.
3–4 weeks before: finish production, quality control and labelling by recipient and Auditorium.
Final week: reconfirm air or maritime window, on-site recipient and shipping address to the island hotel or the Auditorio.

FAQ — Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias

When is the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias held?

Historically in January and February, with symphonic cycles in the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and in the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The exact dates of each edition are confirmed by the Gobierno de Canarias and the FIMC artistic direction each autumn.

Can the order be delivered directly to the Auditorio?

Yes, with planning. Both the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus and the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín have restricted access during concerts, so we usually deliver to an island hotel in the morning before the first rehearsal, or to the named sponsor delegate at a previously agreed entrance. Unique pieces are delivered by hand to the soloist dressing room or to the sponsor suite.

Can we split the order by island?

Yes. Production can be split into batches per Auditorio, with differentiated labels and packing lists for each island; small batches are consolidated in Las Palmas or Santa Cruz to reduce the cost of inter-island maritime or air transport.

Is Corp-Merch a partner, sponsor or official supplier of the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias?

No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps invited orchestras, sponsors, record labels, cultural press and communications offices prepare their own merch for the event. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias, the Gobierno de Canarias or the island Cabildos.

Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier to companies participating in the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias. This page helps those teams prepare their own merch for the event; it does not represent the Festival, the Gobierno de Canarias, the island Cabildos or the FIMC artistic direction.