12th International Spring Orchestra Festival 2018

Welcome to the International Spring Orchestra Festival. The next edition promises to be one of the most breathtaking musical journeys. 9 days of music making of the highest quality by local and guest artists in one of Europe's oldest working theatres, Teatru Manoel, in the capital city of Malta, Valletta. Soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras will perform to your heart's delight music from the classical repertoire to more eclectic 20th and 21st century works by past and contemporary masters.

Friday 6th April 2018 - 6pm - Teatru Manoel
Opening Concert – European Union Chamber Orchestra
performed by 
Soprano Larissa Pominova
Bass Yuri Vlasov
Conductor Brian Schembri 
Programme
Fiorini - Pentimenti
Honegger - Symphony no.2
Shostakovich - Symphony no. 14
Price €30, €20, €15
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger

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Sunday 8th April 2018 - 6pm - Teatru Manoel
Piano Recital  
performed by Joaquin Achúcarro 
Programme 
Chopin - Preludes Op. 28
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Debussy - La plus que Lente
Debussy - La soirée dans Grenade
de Falla Hommage à Debussy
Debussy - 4 Preludes (Book II)
Price €30, €20, €15
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger

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Monday 9th April 2018 - 7pm - Teatru Manoel
Two-Piano Two-Percussion Concert
performed by 
Pianos Roland Conil, Véronique Muzy 
Percussion Christian Bini, Pierre Quiriny
Programme
Lièvre L'ombre bleue
Conil  Moïrai - I Clotho - II Lachésis - III Atropos 
Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion
Price €30, €20, €15
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger

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Tuesday 10th April 2018 - 7pm - Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta
Rising Stars Concert Series I - Piano Recital  
performed by Francis James Camilleri
Programme
Schumann - Kinderszenen
Rachmaninoff - Preludes op. 32 nos 5 & 12
Scriabin - Etudes op. 2 no. 1 & op. 8 no. 12
Debussy - 3 Preludes
Liszt - Après une lecture de Dante
FREE CONCERT

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Wednesday 11th April 2018 – 7pm - Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta
Rising Stars Concert Series II - Piano Recital  
performed by Daphne Cassar and Daniel Zak Borg
Programme
Chopin - Etude op 10. no.12
Chopin - Nocturne op. 55 no. 1
Chopin - Etude op 25. no.1
Chopin - Etude Nouvelle no.1
Chopin - Impromptu op. 29 no. 1
Chopin - Etude op 25. no.2 
Chopin - Etude op 25. no.12
Rachmaninoff - Elegie op. 3 no. 1
Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux op. 33 no. 8
Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas op 2. 
Beethoven - Sonata no. 22 in F major op. 54
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6
FREE CONCERT

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Thursday 12th April 2018 - 8pm - Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta
Aquilon Trio
Violin Eulalie Charland - Clarinet Massimo di Trolio - Piano Maiko Mori
Programme
Khachaturian - Trio
Fiorini - Trio Lamina
Stravinsky - Histoire du Soldat
Bartok - Contrasts Trio
Price €15
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
 
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Friday 13th April 2018 – 12.30pm – Pjazza Teatru Rjal
Percussion concert RitmiKA
performed by Hop!Trio Marseille
FREE CONCERT

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Friday 13th April 2018 – 8pm – Museum of Archaeology
Somogyi String Quartet (Budapest)
Programme
Bartok - String quartet no. 2
Stravinsky - Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes 
Bartok - String quartet no. 4
Price €20
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger
 
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Saturday 14th April 2018 – 8pm – Teatru Manoel
Closing Concert
Tyresias Ensemble (UK) & Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi (Poland)
Conductor Dimitri Scarlato
Bartok's music embodied this year's edition of the ISOFestival. For the closing concert the ISOFestival has invited the Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi from Poland and the London based Tyresias Ensemble under the baton of the Italian Composer-Conductor Dimitri Scarlato to perform Bartok's Divertimento, composed just before Bartok fled Nazi-Hungary at the outbreak of the 2nd world war. 
Programme
Fiorini - Weinende Frau
Lutoslawski - Funeral Music
Scarlato - In Limbo  
Bartok - Divertimento for Strings
Price €30, €20, €15
Discount 50% for Students and Senior citizens
Free for Children 15 years and younger