Music aficionados are in for a treat next month as Maestro Ezio Bosso and the Vienna Boys Choir will be in Malta for two concerts, organised in aid of the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation.

The choir will perform on March 20 at Manoel Theatre. They will also be animating Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral on the March 18.

Composer, pianist and conductor Ezio Bosso will direct the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, also at Manoel Theatre on March 25.

The Vienna Boys Choir goes back to 1498 when Maximilian I moved his court to Vienna thus founding the “Hofmusikkapelle” (Chapel Imperial), and the Vienna Boys Choir.

Until 1918, the choir sang exclusively for the court.

In the 1920s, the choir was re-established as a private organisation. Since 1926, the choir has sung 1,000 tours in 97 different countries. Today, there are 100 choristers between the ages of nine and 14, divided into four touring choirs. Each spends nine to 11 weeks of the academic year on tour.

Together, the choirs give around 300 concerts each year, attended by almost half a million spectators around the world.

Known as one of the most influential contemporary composers, Bosso was born in Turin and right from the very beginning, he expressed a strong desire to go beyond the national boundaries that has characterised his entire career.

After being diagnosed with a degenerative ailment in 2011, he was determined that this would not stop him from doing what he loved most. He underwent brain surgery for the removal of a tumour but this affected his ability to speak and play so he had to learn everything from scratch.

The concerts were launched yesterday by President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca and Italian Ambassador Mario Sammartino, among others.

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