The 19th edition of the Victoria International Arts Festival comes to a close today, with an orchestral concert featuring the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of VIAF artistic director Joseph Vella.
The programme features Brahms’s Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra Op. 77 with Serbian virtuoso soloist Andrea Gajic and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor (Winter Daydreams). The concert, which will take place at St George’s Basilica at 8pm, will be the final one in a series of 37 musical and artistic events that saw more than 600 musicians from all over the world taking part, with no fewer than 250 works by 130 different composers performed.
Since its inception, the Victoria International Arts Festival has offered all its concerts and events free of charge to the public.
It has established itself as the islands’ leading festival of its kind.
VIAF is supported by the Gozo Cultural Support Programme, APS Bank, Bank of Valletta and the Italian Cultural Institute.