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The Red and White 2026 concert celebrates artistic collaboration between Poland and Malta through a carefully curated programme that combines professional performance with strong educational objectives.
It is envisaged that this concert will become an annual event, creating an ongoing platform for cultural exchange and educational development within the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
The principal objectives of the concert are:
• To provide student composers from the School of Music with the opportunity to have their compositions and arrangements performed publicly by a professional orchestra, thereby giving them valuable practical experience of orchestral performance.
• To increase public awareness of contemporary Maltese composers and new Maltese music.
• To introduce Maltese audiences to Polish classical repertoire, particularly music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, which is not frequently performed in Malta.
For the 2026 edition, the programme will include new compositions by three students currently reading for the Level 5 Diploma in Composition at the School of Music: Federica Agius, Claudia Abdilla, and Edric Micallef.
In order to further strengthen the Polish–Maltese collaborative dimension of the project, Federica Agius and Claudia Abdilla (first-year students) have composed variations based on Polish folk themes, which will form part of their Diploma portfolio. Edric Micallef (second-year student) has composed three orchestral miniatures, bringing together the principal compositional techniques and musical concepts explored during his two-year course of study.
In addition, all three students have prepared orchestral arrangements of Mazurkas originally written for piano by the prominent twentieth-century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. Orchestration forms a key component of the composition curriculum, and the opportunity to hear these arrangements performed by a full orchestra represents an important step in translating theoretical study into practical artistic experience.
Alongside the works by students of the School of Music, the concert will also feature the premiere of Reuben Pace’s Concerto for Orchestra, composed in 2025 and dedicated to the Maxime Orchestra.
The programme will also include works by distinguished Polish composers Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909) and Henryk Czyż (1923–2003), thereby placing the student compositions within a broader international orchestral repertoire.
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St. Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta
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