Gaulitana 2026 Week 1 Round Up

Gaulitana: A Festival of Music 2026

Lending a Voice to Music

 

Sat 28/3                             

A SACRED OPENING

SILESIAN CHAMBER CHOIR AD LIBITUM

GAULITANUS CHOIR

GAULITANUS STRING ENSEMBLE

COLIN ATTARD│IZABELLA ZIELECKA-PANEK Conductors – Malta/Poland

Basilica of Our Lady of Visitation, Għarb

The Opening Concert at Gaulitana presented a double choral bill with the Gaulitanus Choir & String Ensemble alongside the Silesian Chamber Choir Ad Libitum.

The Gozitan choir ushered patrons into Holy Week with British-American excerpts as the Polish ensemble interpreted Faure’s powerful Requiem, his “pursuit of happiness in the hereafter”. The two concluding massed choir works, included the premiere a hymn by Pierre Louis Attard composed to celebrate the 800^th death anniversary of Francis of Assisi.

 

Sun 29/3                            

CORONATION MASS

Palm Sunday Sung Mass

SILESIAN CHAMBER CHOIR AD LIBITUM

IZABELLA ZIELECKA-PANEK Conductor – Poland

St Margaret Parish Church, Sannat

On Palm Sunday, the Silesian Chamber Choir animated the Mass in English at Sannat accompanied by the recently-restored 1903 Cavalli organ.

The choir interpreted Mozart’s Coronation Mass, a masterpiece originally composed for the Easter period, as well as other liturgical hymns.

 

Mon 30/3                          

EN-CHÓR

SILESIAN CHAMBER CHOIR AD LIBITUM

IZABELLA ZIELECKA-PANEK Conductor – Poland

Oratory Don Bosco Chapel, Victoria

For its final appearance at the festival, the Silesian Chamber Choir Ad Libitum performed a selection of unaccompanied Polish numbers.

Blending sacred hymns with more secular works, the programme showcased the artistic dexterity of the ensemble as well as the musical traits of their homeland.

 

Tue 31/3                            

TRÍO DE ESPAÑA

MARIA CONRAD Violin

RAISA ULUMBEKOVA Violin

YANA KUCHEROVA Viola – Malta/Russia/Spain

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Nadur

Maltese violinist Maria Conrad returned to Gaulitana, for a chamber concert with string colleagues from the Adda Simfònica Alicante.

The evening encompassed the European sonic tapestry with works by Beethoven, Dvorak and Taneyev alongside oeuvres by leading Spanish artistic figures – Astorga, Albéniz and de Falla.

 

Gaulitana runs from 28 March to 26 April

Events (except for the opera) are free of charge