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Presented by European Foundation for Support of Culture
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Valletta 2018 Tour
Saturday, December 1, 2018
6:30 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
This performance opens with the symphonic poem Rebbieħa by Maltese composer Joseph Vella. This is followed by Maltese-American composer Alexey Shor’s Travel Notebook Suite for Piano and Orchestra with Ingolf Wunder as the piano soloist and closes with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. The MPO’s tour is organized by the European Foundation for Support of Culture and helps mark the orchestra’s 50th Anniversary as well as Malta’s capital city, Valletta, becoming a 2018 European Capital of Culture.
Performers
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Sergey Smbatyan, Conductor
Ingolf Wunder, Piano
Program
VELLA Rebbieħa, Op. 45
ALEXEY SHOR Travel Notebook for Piano and Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5