Pianist Charlene Farrugia opens the concert at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta, on Tuesday, performing Beethoven’s well-known Waldstein and Liszt’s Dante sonatas together with the Prokofiev third sonata and Ginastera’s first.

The lunchtime concerts – from Wednesday to Saturday at 12.30 p.m. will to be held at Sala Isouard, Manoel Theatre, Valletta. These will include masterpieces of piano repertoire with a special spotlight on young up and coming Maltese musicians.

On Wednesday at 8 p.m., again at the Sala Isouard, Ruben Zahra’s Crossbreed Ensemble will take the audience on a journey of 20th and 21st century trumpet, piano and percussion music, including arrangements of known ‘rock classics’ by Zahra.

On Thursday at 8 p.m. Sophie Charpentier and Olivia Gutherz will perform a viola da gamba and harpsichord recital ‘au tour de’ Bach, his sons and their contemporaries in the main theatre.

The festival closes on Saturday at 8 p.m., with the Parisian Elixir Piano Quartet performing Mozart’s G Minor Piano Quartet, Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A Minor and Schumann’s Piano quartet in E-flat Major.