Tuesday 11 April 8pm
Opening Concert | Synchrony String Orchestra | Grand Salon National Museum of Archaeology
Co-founded and led by Eulalie Charland, Synchrony, making a welcome return visit to the Malta Spring Festival, was born out of the recognition that women can create lasting, positive change when they work together. Premiere of a new string work by 'super-cool' British composer Flori Anna Maunders.
Programme
Ligeti | Ramifications
Stravinsky | Apollon Musagète
Florence Maunders | Khodahafez
Bartòk | Divertimento for Strings
Price: €20
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
Wednesday 12 April 8pm
Parkings + Houtkamp + Ligeti Trio | Malta Society of Arts
A programme of mostly improvised 'instant composed' music, making use of a variety of instruments, objects and electronics. Stunningly unpredictable.
Price: €20
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
Thursday 13 April 8pm
Synchrony String Quartet | St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral
Ligeti, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Beethoven. The greatest quartet fugue of the 19th century, the epic Dresden quartet dedicated 'to the victims of fascism and the war'.
Programme:
Ligeti | String quartet no. 1
Schnittke | String quartet no. 3
Shostakovich | String quartet no. 8
Beethoven | Grosse Fuge
Price: €20
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
Friday 14 April 8pm
Gabi Sultana Piano Recital | Teatru Manoel
Programme:
Opening Doors Music Group
Nothing Really [Malta Spring Festival Commission - Music Ligeti Musica Ricercata] - Francesca Tranter
Rautavaara | Piano Sonata no. 2
Ligeti | Études 2 & 10
Crumb | Metamorphoses Book I & II [selection]
Performers
Pianist, Gabi Sultana
Choreographer, Francesca Tranter
Dancers, Milla Mokosky | Noemi Pillar | Sarah Sammut
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
Saturday 15 April 8pm
Closing Orchestral Concert | Teatru Manoel
Programme:
Malta School of Music Percussion Ensemble
Webern | Langsamer Satz
Beethoven | Piano concerto no. 2
Poulenc | Hoops, Ballet
Stravinsky | Danses Concertantes
Performers
Orquestra Classica do Centro, Portugal
Soloist, Sofia Narmania
Conductor, Sergio Alapont
Price: €30, €20
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
