Final concert of Bir Miftuh festival

The fourth concert in this year's Bir Miftuh Music Festival, organised by Din l-Art Helwa will be held in the mediaeval chapel of Santa Marija ta' Bir Miftuh on Friday at 8 p.m.

The concert is sponsored by the German Embassy.

The musicians at the concert, which concludes the 2003 series, are two young German violinists, Dorle Fassmann and Theresia Meyer.

Fassmann started violin lessons at the Dessau School of Music at a very young age. She plays in the Dessau School of Music with the Old Music Ensemble and is a regular member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Saxony-Anhalt.

Meyer is another very promising young musician. She participated in the Bad Harzburg Festival of Music and the Leos Janacek Festival, and this year has been on a tour with the Federal Youth Orchestra.

The duo has been playing together since 2001 with great success, receiving many awards.

The evening's programme consists of works by Georg Philipp Telemann, Giovanni Battista Viotti and Bela Bartok.

Tickets at Lm7.50 per person may be obtained from Din l-Art Helwa at 133, Melita Street, Valletta, tel. 2122 5952 or 2122 0358.

Proceeds will be in aid of the upkeep and maintenance of the chapel of Bir Miftuh and towards Din l-Art Helwa restoration projects.