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Linus Roth rendirá un homenaje a Helen Watson - IFCC

Linus Roth will pay tribute to Helen Watson, president of Ibiza and Formentera Against Cancer, at the international festival ‘Ibiza Concerts’

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This charitable event returns to the Cloister of the Dominican Convent of the Ibiza Town Hall with three concerts, from August 25 to 27 at 9:00 p.m., under the direction of this renowned violinist

Renowned violinist Linus Roth will pay tribute to the president of Ibiza and Formentera Against Cancer, Helen Watson, at the 5th Edition of the International Festival ‘Ibiza Concerts’ to honor her selfless and tireless work at the head of this association, fighting to improve the care of cancer patients in the Pityusic Islands, as well as the prevention and early detection of all types of tumors. This festival will feature three charity concerts, which will be held in the Cloister of the Dominican Convent of the Ibiza Town Hall, in Dalt Vila at 9:00 p.m. The entire proceeds from the tickets, with a donation price of 25 euros per adult and 10 euros for children under 14, will go to the Ibiza and Formentera Against Cancer Association, IFCC.

“Helen Watson was a great person, and I think the best way to remember her and to show how important she was to Ibiza is by performing a song in her honor,” Linus Roth has advanced.

Linus Roth rendirá un homenaje a Helen Watson - IFCC

The first concert will take place on August 25 under the title ‘Do You Love Brahms?’, with performances by Linus Roth and Marta Gallego on violin, Jennifer Stumm on viola, Raphaela Gromes on cello, and Sophie Pacini on piano. The following day, August 26, will be the turn of ‘Fandango’, a session in which Petrit Çeku will join on guitar, along with this repertoire of artists. The last day, corresponding to August 27, this international music meeting will be closed with the concert “The Four Seasons”, paying tribute to the illustrious composer Antonio Vivaldi, in a particular duet performed by Linus Roth on violin and Petrit Çeku on guitar, as a golden brooch to three days in which music and solidarity will be the protagonists.

Those interested in purchasing tickets for this classical music festival can do so at the box office of the venue, 30 minutes before the start of each performance, or online at the following link: https://www.ibizaconciertos.com/es/program-tickets

Linus Roth

Linus Roth is one of the most fascinating classical violinists of his generation, traveling all over the world, playing on all continents with the most important orchestras as a soloist and in the most prestigious concert halls.

His latest recording with the London Symphony Orchestra received several awards, among which the German phonographic industry award stands out. Linus Roth is also a violin professor at the University of Augsburg, founder of the International Weinberg Society, and the Schwäbischer Frühling Festival in Germany.

Linus Roth plays the Stradivari “Dancla” 1703 violin, a loan from the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.

Linus Roth - Festival internacional ‘Ibiza Concerts’

El festival internacional ‘Ibiza Concerts’ regresa a Ibiza del 26 al 28 de agosto con tres conciertos solidarios a beneficio de IFCC

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Estos eventos musicales, que comenzarán a las 21:00 horas, estarán dirigidos por el célebre violinista Linus Roth en el Claustro del Convento de los Dominicos del Ayuntamiento de Eivissa

El reconocido violinista Linus Roth volverá a Ibiza del 26 al 28 de agosto para dirigir la IV Edición del Festival Internacional ‘Ibiza Concerts’ con tres conciertos solidarios que se celebrarán en el Claustro del Convento de los Dominicos del Ayuntamiento de Eivissa, en Dalt Vila, a las 21:00 horas. Este encuentro con la música clásica será benéfico y la recaudación íntegra de las entradas, con un precio donativo de 20 euros por adulto y de 10 euros para los niños menores de 14 años, irá destinada a la Asociación Ibiza y Formentera Contra el Cáncer, IFCC.

El primer concierto, que tendrá lugar el 26 agosto bajo el título ‘Reinicio’, será un dueto de Linus Roth al violín y de Julien Quentin al piano. Al día siguiente, el 27 de agosto, será el turno de la sesión conocida como ‘Todo Beethoven’, una actuación a cargo del Cuarteto Schumann, de Julien Quentin al piano y de Linus Roth al violín, quien homenajeará a dicho artista alemán, conocido por ser uno de los compositores más importantes de la historia de la música. Por último, el 28 de agosto, se cerrará este festival con el concierto ‘Desde París con amor’ de la mano de Linus Roth, Julien Quentin y Cuarteto Schumann, para deleitar al público con piezas románticas y repletas de delicadeza.

La presidenta de la Asociación de Ibiza y Formentera Contra el Cáncer, Helen Watson, ha destacado que “estamos muy agradecidos a Linus Roth por su apoyo a nuestra Asociación durante todos estos años y por su puesta en valor el trabajo que llevamos desempeñando desde hace más de 21 apoyar a los pacientes con cáncer de las Pitiusas”. “Para él las acciones que impulsamos de prevención contra esta enfermedad y de ayuda directa son muy importantes y para nosotros que artistas de su nivel estén a nuestro lado nos hace más fuertes, de hecho, su música es realmente terapéutica”, ha concluido.

Todos aquellos interesados en adquirir las entradas para este festival de música clásica de forma online ya pueden hacerlo en el siguiente link: https://www.ibizaconciertos.com/program-tickets

 

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IFCC, 21 años junto a los pacientes de cáncer de las Pitiusas y sus familias

La Asociación Ibiza y Formentera Contra el Cáncer, IFCC, donó en 2019 un total de 16 nuevos sillones reclinables de última generación para los pacientes oncológicos del Hospital de Can Misses, que se suman a los 10 que ya sufragó en 2016, junto con cinco televisores con auriculares incorporados para la sala de quimioterapia. Una Asociación que ha financiado, además, gracias a las donaciones de sus numerosos socios y a los eventos benéficos que organiza, la decoración de la consulta de enfermería oncológica y de la consulta de la Unidad de Cuidados Paliativos, la adquisición de un endoscopio para el Hospital de Formentera, un proyecto piloto de cribado del cáncer de colon en las Pitiusas o la contratación de un fisioterapeuta para la Unidad de Linfedema, que dirige la doctora Sausan Sayed, además de varios coches para esta Unidad de Paliativos. Esta ONG ha editado, por otro lado, los folletos informativos del Hospital de Día Oncológico, con recomendaciones para pacientes en tratamiento de quimioterapia, de cirugía de mama y ostomizados.

Estos son solo algunos de los hechos tangibles logrados por esta Asociación que lleva más de 21 años al lado de los pacientes con cáncer en Ibiza y en Formentera y de sus familias.

Tres conciertos solidarios y un escenario: el violinista Linus Roth vuelve a Ibiza con el festival internacional ‘Ibiza Concerts’

Three solidarity concerts and a stage: the violinist Linus Roth returns to Ibiza with the international festival “Ibiza Concerts”

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These musical meetings will be held at the Cloister of the Ibiza Town Hall, in Dalt Vila, and part of what is collected will go to our Association

On August 30, the renowned violinist Linus Roth will return to Ibiza to direct the international festival ‘Ibiza Concerts’ which celebrates its second edition in the Cloister of the Dominican Convent of the City of Ibiza, in Dalt Vila, until September 1. This encounter with classical music will be beneficial and will feature three different concerts, on the same stage. Part of the collection of tickets will go to our Association. A festival that will be present in addition to Linus Roth with his violin Stradivarius, other internationally renowned artists such as the Argentine pianist José Gallardo, the Albanian Kosovar guitarist Petrit Ceku or the German cellist Jens-Peter Maintz. The first concert, on August 30, will begin at 9:00 p.m. under the title ‘Spanish Serenade’, a tribute to the classical music of our country. The next day, on August 31, and again at 9:00 p.m., it will be the session’s turn under the title ‘Nicolo Paganni – The Devil’s Violinist’, an evening that will be a tribute to this Italian artist and others Musicians linked to him. Finally, on September 1, this festival will close at the same time with ‘Popular Dances’, where you can listen to tangos and other pieces like ‘the Hungarian dances’ by Johannes Brahms.

The price of tickets will be 20 euros per person and 10 euros for children under 14 years and can already be purchased on the website www.ibizaconcerts.com. “We are very grateful to Linus for his support of our Association and for how he values ​​the work we have been doing for the cancer patients of Ibiza and Formentera for 18 years to receive the support they need,” said IFCC President Helen Watson. “For him, the actions we promote for prevention against this disease and for direct help are very important and for us that artists of his level are at our side makes us stronger, in fact his music is really therapeutic,” he concluded.

 

IFCC, 18 years next to Pitiusas cancer patients

Our Association Ibiza and Formentera Against Cancer, IFCC, is a non-governmental and non-profit organization aimed at the fight against this disease in the Pitiusas. IFCC has been helping cancer patients from the islands of Ibiza and Formentera for 18 years by offering their support to the sick and their families and collaborating with the health services of the Balearic Islands, to promote improvements that have a greater quality of care.

Thus, in recent years our Association has launched different projects such as the acquisition of several vehicles for the Palliative Care Unit of the Can Misses Hospital, the purchase of several equipment aimed at performing colonoscopies at the Formentera Hospital, the financing of the pilot colon cancer screening program of the Health Area of ​​Ibiza and Formentera, the hiring of a physiotherapist for the Lymphedema Unit of the Can Misses Hospital or the elaboration, printing and dissemination of different advice and care guides for cancer patients, among other actions.