Unusual concert at Manoel Theatre

The Manoel Theatre is presenting a most unusual concert of arrangements of well-known works for piano-eight hands on April 12. Performing at the two pianos are Jennifer Micallef, Glenn Inanga, Wayne Marshall and John MacLaughlin Williams. The programme consists of the overtures to Wagner’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns, Chopin’s Polonaise in A, Slavonic Dance in G minor by Dvořák, Wagner’s The ride of the Valkyries, Chabrier’s España and Berlioz’s Rakoczi March. It is a programme which is guaranteed to be a highly entertaining one.

Maltese pianist Jennifer Micallef forms part of a highly successful piano duo with Nigerian-born Glenn Inanga. The duo is well-known world-wide and also very popular in Malta. They have recorded several CDs for the Hyperion label. In 2004 they founded the biannual Cayman International Music Festival which from this year will also run on a smaller scale during the in-between years.

Wayne Marshall is a very busy pianist, organist and orchestra director. Like the Micallef-Inanga duo he has performed and conducted in some of the world’s most prestigious venues. Very recently at Milan’s Auditorio he directed the Orchestra Verdi in a programme which included Martinu’s Concerto for Two Pianos featuring the Micallef-Inanga duo. John MacLaughlin Williams is pianist, violinist and conductor. He guest conducts various well-known orchestras in the US such as the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops and the Chicago Sinfonietta and elsewhere. He is a tireless researcher and communicator, and the arrangements performed during the concert have been unearthed by him.

• Tickets for the concert may be obtained by phone on 2124 6389, by e-mail: bookings@teatrumanoel.com.mt or online: www.teatrumanoel.com.mt