20th Malta Spring Festival | Closing Concert

The Malta Spring Festival closes with an evening of powerful string writing and striking contrasts. Charles Camilleri’s Suite 2001 – Kosmos opens the concert with a reflective meditation on humanity and the universe, followed by Britten’s youthful and spirited Simple Symphony. Karl Fiorini’s Weinende Frau, inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, offers an intense and searching contemporary voice, while Ginastera’s visceral Concerto for Strings brings rhythmic drive and dramatic force. Performed by the Malta Spring Festival Academy Orchestra conducted by Brian Schembri, this concert brings together young international talent in a compelling festival finale.

Malta Spring Festival Academy Orchestra

Emanuel Salvador, orchestra leader

Tomasz Koulisiewicz, assistant leader

Charles Sewart, 2nd violin section leader

Alexandre Razera, viola section leader

Adam Klocek, cello section leader

Gjorgji Cincievski, double bass section leader

Brian Schembri, conductor

Charles Camilleri | Suite 2001 - Kosmos

Benjamin Britten | Simple Symphony, op.4

Karl Fiorini | Weinende Frau

Alberto Ginastera | Concerto for strings, op. 33