The opening of this year’s fifteenth edition of the Victoria International Arts Festival was celebrated by the participation of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.  This concert, which I conducted, featured one of my major works, namely the Concerto for Violin.  Soloist was Italian virtuoso... Read More

I attended this event Quinto I Vicentino, Italy, (18th - 20th May) with a sense of great involvement.  Not only was I asked to Chair the Jury, but I was also very much a part of the performing side, in that each discipline involved had to include one of my pieces as a test piece, namely, Flute... Read More

Up-and-coming duo musicians Philip Attard (saxophone) and Christine Zerafa (Piano) held a very successful recital at the St James Music Room on the 29th of April.  These young players gave a very good interpretation of my Sonata for Saxophone Alto and Piano.

The event (Sala Isouard, Manoel Theatre, 26th April) highlighted the works of young composer Chris Muscat.  The interpreters were the ProMużika Ensemble. As part of the programme, the organizers asked the composer to include a work each by two older composers who influenced his work.  He... Read More

From the 22nd to the 26th of April I was in Salzburg, Austria, for two projects.  In the first instance on the 23rd I was invited by Prof. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner to give an illustrated lecture about my work as a composer and conductor at the University of Salzburg.  During the lecture, three... Read More

From the 16th to the 19th of April I was in Paris to supervise the recording of my Concertino for Cornet and Brass Band.  The performers were soloist Alexis Demaiily, and the Paris Brass Band, the same musicians who had given the Concertino its world premier (also in Paris) last year.  The... Read More

This series of concerts of Baroque music, initiated and held under the auspices of the MPO, continued on the 14th of the month, at the Robert Samut Hall in Floriana.  Conducting an ensemble from the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, I presented works by Bach, Carissimi and also by Maltese Baroque... Read More

The MPO, under my direction, played a programme of English and Maltese works purposely chosen to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Award of the George Cross to Malta.  The concert was held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre on the 13th of April.  My tone poem Rebbieħa was one of the... Read More

At the Sir Temi Zammit Hall, the Malta Youth Orchestra, of which I am the resident conductor, gave another successful and well-patronized concert. I conducted these promising young musicians in a programme of works by Suppe', Bizet and Coleridge-Taylor.

My annual appointment as composer-in-residence of the MPO, this year fell on the 23rd of March.  In a concert held at the Manoel Theatre, which I also conducted, I presented the world premier of my Concerto for Piccolo, Strings and Timpani.  The interpreter was Italian virtuoso Nicola... Read More