Live music returns for the Gaulitana Festival
Artistic director Colin Attard brings the 14th Gaulitana: A Festival of Music to a close. It features, among others, local compositions, a (belated) tribute to Beethoven and an organ concert by Wayne Marshall. For the third part of this year’s Gaulitana Festival, which presents live public events once again, artistic director Colin Attard pulls out all the stops: the Gaulitanus Choir, its soprano soloists, violinist Pierre-Louis Attard, the Armed Forces of Malta Band, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and an MPO Duo. World-class musician Wayne Marshall, an in-demand conductor, pianist and organist, will give an organ recital in Gozo for the first time. His milestones include work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the London Symphony Orchestra. As recently as June, a worldwide audience saw him online conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and performing as a piano soloist at the same time. For Gozo, Marshall has come up with an organ recital at Xewkija rotunda during which he will present works that mean a lot to him personally: some French romantic music as well as organ improvisations, for which he is famous. This phase of the...