EU accession concert

The National Council for Culture and the Arts is putting up a concert by the Cantores Sancti Juliani on Friday at 7.30 p.m. to mark Malta's accession of the European Union.

The concert will consist of a miscellany of works by local and foreign authors. Several pieces will be sung a cappella.

The choir was given the title "Malta's Children's Choir of the European Union", by Prof. Francois Bardot, president of the council of the European Children's Choirs, in August 2000 when it was also admitted to form part of the Federation of Choirs of the European Union.

That month the choir had won third prize in the children's choirs category at the highly competitive XLVIII international choir festival Guido D'Arezzo held at Arezzo in Italy.

At the forthcoming concert, which will be held in St Julian's parish church, the choir's birthplace, the Cantores will be accompanied on the organ by Hugo Agius Muscat, who has accompanied them in concerts since 1998.