Students experience an evening chamber music concert

A group of Form 5 (Year 11) students from St Margaret College Secondary School, Verdala, Cospicua, recently attended an evening chamber music concert featuring European musicians performing music pieces inspired by China as well as European pieces. The students were accompanied by their senior science teacher Martin Azzopardi and LSE Robert Axisa.

Entitled Melody of the Orient, the concert featured the Belart Female String Quartet, which was formed in Brussels in 2016 and is composed of Chinese and Western artists active in the Belgian music scene. It falls under the China Belgium Art and Culture Society (Chinabelart) and performs both western pieces of music and traditional Chinese folk music and, in doing so, seeks to bring together Chinese and European music culture. The concert was held at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, and was organised by the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre in coordination with the China Cultural Centre in Valletta.

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