The Gaulitanus Choir will soon be embarking on its 23rd artistic choral venture abroad, participating in the upcoming 24th edition of the Festival Euro Mediterraneo being held in Rome between the 7th and the 10th June.
The concert tour ensues from an ongoing Gaulitana: A Festival of Music artistic collaboration, and follows an invitation by the ‘Associazione Fondazione Euro Mediterraneo’ and its artistic director, Enrico Castiglione, who for several years has been responsible for the production, scenery and costumes for the Gaulitana’s annual operatic production.
The Gaulitanus Choir, together with its several vocal soloists and violinist Pierre Louis Attard, will be giving a secular openair concert at the Parco di Appia Antica entitled “Sole e Amore … da Malta all’Italia!”. This major artistic commitment will then be complemented by the animation of masses at the two most prestigious churches in Rome, St Peter’s Basilica and the Archbasilica of St John Lateran. The choir will be led by its musical director, Colin Attard.
As always, in line with its ambassadorial role as a prime promoter of Maltese music abroad, the repertoire being performed will significantly also feature quite a lot of Maltese music.
This foreign foray, part of the organisation’s calendar of international events, follows the choir’s highly successful concert tour of Poland last December. In between, the organisation was also involved in two other foreign artistic commitments, again a result of the Gaulitana Festival’s international collaborations. In February the choir’s musical director and festival’s artistic director, Colin Attard, chaired the adjudicating board at the 13th edition of the ‘Concorso Internazionale Citta di Massa’, Italy, whereas in March Attard was invited to conduct the Ion Dimitrescu Philharmonic in a symphonic concert in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania, also with the participation of the Gaulitana Festival’s coordinator Pierre Louis Attard as solo violinist.
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