{"id":8498,"date":"2025-02-14T06:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:31","slug":"more-events-at-this-years-malta-international-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/more-events-at-this-years-malta-international-arts-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"More events at this year&#8217;s Malta International Arts Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arts Council Malta announced two more events for this year\u2019s Malta International Arts Festival (MIAF), which will be taking place between the 8th and 18th July in various locations, providing Maltese audiences a wide choice of performances of exceptional quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s events promote local artists, with a collaboration of local musicians and dancers for Moveo Dance Company\u2019s D.O.K., and a recital by Maltese harpist Caroline Calleja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this recital, Calleja will be perfoming works by Grandjany, Zabel, Salzedo, Tailleferre and Faur\u00e9 in the Fortress Builders centre in Valletta on the 9th of July. Calleja is first-prize winner of various competitions, including the Bice Mizzi Vassallo Competition (1995 and 1997), the Young Musicians\u2019 Competition (1997), the EPTA National Piano Competition (1998) and the Tchaikovsky Piano Award (2000). She has performed extensively both in Malta and abroad, and has worked closly with internationally renowned musicians at the Dartington International Summer School in Devon, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia.&nbsp; In 2003, Calleja was invited to tour Italy and France with the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra. Calleja sudied piano and harp performance at the Conservatoire National de Region de Lyon in France, where she was awarded the Medaille d\u2019Or in piano and Dipl\u00f4me de Fin d\u2019Etudes with distinction in harp.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1461243947.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music is blended together with dance in&nbsp;<em>D.O.K.<\/em>, a Maltese work with different artists working together as equal partners, creating a harmonious experience where the expressions of dance, voice and music come together, leading to a commitment to teamwork, exploration and inter-disciplinary practice. The work, conceived by Moveo Dance Company\u2019s artistic director and choreographer Dorian Mallia, with the participation of soprano Miriam Cauchi and musicians Simon Abdilla Joslin and Albert Garzia, inspired by the music of the Maltese composer Charles Camilleri, will be held on the 13th of July at Fort St Elmo, Valletta. Moveo Dance Company, founded in 2005, focuses its work on the study of the body in motion, within a whole spectrum of possibilities including identity, as well as cultural and social behaviours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details about these and other events can be obtained from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltaartsfestival.org\/\">www.maltaartsfestival.org<\/a>. More events will be published every Friday, with the complete programme unveiled by Wednesday 4th May.&nbsp; Early bird tickets will be available from the 4th May up to the 7th June, and regular tickets will be available thereafter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts Council Malta announced two more events for this year\u2019s Malta International Arts Festival (MIAF), which will be taking place between the 8th and 18th July in various locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}