Three concerts featuring Maestro Vella`s music are planned in the coming weeks, as Summer progressively gives way to Autumn.

‘Sarabanda‘, Maestro Vella`s ever popular Opus 73 for strings, will be performed on the 15th September 2024 at the Dominican Church in Rabat Malta, at 19:00hrs. Vella`s composition has a duration of 5.30 minutes, and was premiered by I Solisti di Firenze in 1995, at the Santa Maria Cathedral, Ancona, Italy.

The programme, coordinated by Maestro Andre Paul Huber, will also feature amongst others two Stabat Mater, one by Vivaldi and the other by Pergolesi, being also the liturgical feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Vella`s Opus 73 will also be performed in Gozo, as part of the Ewfonija Grand Operatic Concert to be held on the 4th October 2024 (19:30hrs) at the Grand Hotel, Mgarr, Gozo. Vella`s equally popular ‘Il-Kebbies Tal-Fanali’ (Opus 18) for soprano and piano also features in this programme coordinated by Musical Director Mariella Spiteri Cefai, alongside ‘Sarabanda’.

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will on their part be performing another Vella classic, ‘Jubilo’ (Opus 47), at Girgenti on the 11th September 2024, under the baton of Maestro Paul Bateman. This 7 minute work was first performed at the Mdina Cathedral in 1987, and is for strings, brass and percussion.