Opening Concert
Date: Tuesday 07th April
Venue: St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Valletta,
Time: 20:00
Philip Glass | Saxophone Quartet
Ignacy Zalewski | New work *Festival Commission World Premiere
David Maslanka | Recitation Book
Melika Saxophone Quartet
Philip Attard, soprano saxophone
Joseph Vella, alto saxophone
Samuel Mallia, tenor saxophone
Godfrey Mifsud, baritone saxophone
Date: Thursday 09th April
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta,
Time: 20:00
Shostakovich | sonata for cello and piano
Shostakovich | sonata for violin and piano
Shostakovich | sonata for viola and piano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Alexandre Razera, viola
Adam Klocek, cello
Debbie Shah, piano
Date: Friday 10th April
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta,
Time: 20:00
Bacewicz | Piano Quintet no.1
Shostakovich | Piano Quintet
​Huberman String Quartet
Tomasz Koulisiewicz, violin
Alicja Miruk-Mirska, violin
Zuzanna Sobecka viola
Adam Klocek, cello
Christine Zerafa, piano
Closing Concert
Date: Saturday 11th April
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta,
Time: 20:00
Benjamin Britten | Simple Symphony
Charles Camilleri | Kosmos Suite
Karl Fiorini | Weinende Frau
Alberto Ginastera | Concerto for strings
Malta Spring Festival Academy Orchestra
Brian Schembri, conductor
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MALTA SPRING FESTIVAL 2026
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7-11 APRIL 2026
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Conceived and founded in 2005 by its artistic director Karl Fiorini, The Malta Spring Festival is an annual classical and contemporary music festival known for its innovative programming and commitment to new orchestral and chamber works.
The festival takes place in different venues in Valletta, capital city of Malta.
Each year the Malta Spring Festival presents its listeners with a theme (2017 From Zappa to Beethoven, 2018 Revolution and its Composers, 2019 Of Death and Maidens, 2020 Must it be? It must be!, 2021 Degenerates) exploring the repertoire from the classicists to today, rarely or unheard in Malta, taking the audience on a journey of cultural, psychological and personal discovery. The Malta Spring Festival takes pride in carefully selecting an ambitious roster of artists as well as in placing a premium on challenge, innovation and class, showcasing the new with the not-so-old in unexpected juxtapositions of programming, at times verging on audience “unfriendly”, emotionally relentless, and mentally demanding repertoire.
Running parallel to the evening concerts and recitals, an education strand of the Malta Spring Festival - Rising Stars Concert Series - welcomes up-and-coming local artists to hone their skills on the larger stage, encouraging them to think and compare less regionally, with the aim of providing these young artists in-the-making the necessary springboard to pursue their musical education abroad the limited shores of Malta.
TESTIMONIALS
"There is something so special about the Malta Spring Festival. Rather difficult to put into words but so marvellous ... Somehow one has the mixed sensation of playing in an important place, yes, but that the public (each one of the listeners) is an old friend that is following with connoisseurship, interest and JOY the adventure and the pleasure of the living music. And that this joy is contagious and you enjoy, while playing, the beauty of friendship."
- Joaquín Achúcarro
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