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38 Events maltatoday, SUNDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER 2013 MSC Cruises appoints Onorato as new CEO MSC Cruises today announced that Gianni Onorato will become the new Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective 2 September 2013. With almost 30 years' experience in the cruise industry, Onorato has a thorough understanding of the cruise business and extensive experience in senior executive leadership, serving as President of Costa Crociere for over nine years. He graduated from the Istituto Orientale of Naples with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1983, and specialized in business administration at SDA Bocconi in Milan and INSEAD in Fontainebleau. "I am thrilled to have been appointed to this exciting role and I am also particularly excited to move to Geneva, where the MSC Cruises headquarters is based," said Onorato. "I will do everything I can to add value to the company and help MSC Cruises maximise its industryleading position. I look forward to starting work with the management team in this significant moment of the company's growth." Pierfrancesco Vago will continue to lead the privately held cruise company in the role of Executive Chairman, while scaling up the scope of his duties. From his new position he will also oversee all the other companies of the MSC group that have strategic relevance to the tourism sector. "Our company has gone through a period of rapid expansion, with ten new ships built in just under 10 years, three new prototype classes of ship created and 45 offices opened around the globe. I am confident that the appointment of Gianni will consolidate our management structure, building on its existing strengths and boosting the company's development plans even further." Vago has been driving MSC Cruises since 2003, when a €6 billion investment plan was put into place, transforming the company from 'the new kids on the block' to the world's third largest cruise operator. Onorato will be based in Geneva at the MSC Cruises headquarters. He will report to the MSC Board of Directors and to its Executive Chairman. Gianni Onorato Hamilton Travel are the exclusive General Sales Agents of MSC Cruises in the Maltese Islands Jazz up your drive with the Honda Jazz The new Honda Jazz accommodates all your needs in a truly advanced personal car. Boasting an optimum balance between a sporty exterior and a spacious cabin, the Jazz gives great flexibility in all aspects of the drive. Jazz's Ultra seats and interior design focus on comfort and ease of use, with a remarkably spacious and roomy interior not usually seen with such a sleek and sporty exterior. Its sporty lines will grab your attention at first glance. The dynamic, forward-shifted body creates a refined, streamlined posture that'll sweep you away to an exciting new adventure. A radically slanted windshield achieves better aerodynamics as well as increasing the driver's view. It's a look that captures the eye of every passerby. From its dynamic face to the compact tail, the Jazz imparts a sense of amazing performance and surefooted agility. Even though it might be sporty on the outside, this little car still man- Model shown is the Jazz 1.3 HX in Fresh LIme Metallic ages to be incredibly spacious on the inside. The Jazz clearly demonstrates that supreme comfort and versatility can coexist in a small vehicle, even on extended journeys. It's thanks to the large supportive seats equipped with a ratchet-style seat height adjuster. The sporty three-spoke steering wheel adjusts not only for height but telescopically for reach too. It is so easy to find a comfortable driving position to enjoy the incredibly quiet ride. When you need extra cargo space, the ingenious Magic seats let you totally reconfigure the cabin. The new Jazz proves that small cars can still deliver exceptional driving pleasure, even during long distances. When the highway demands acceleration, simply press the pedal and Honda's new, spirited i-VTEC engine (100ps 1.4 i-VTEC) responds with instant exhilaration. The Jazz helps avoid any accidents by keeping you in constant control with clear visibility, responsive acceleration, agile handling and outstanding braking performance. Honda's Anti-lock Braking System, brake assist and a high-mounted back brake light further contribute to overall safety. In the event of an accident, advanced safety features and solid body construction based on Honda's G-Force Control technology, help protect you and your passengers. So there's no doubt that in the new Honda Jazz, you'll always have total peace of mind. Photographic Exhibition at Palazzo de Piro: Seeing Jazz Like his music, a fine photograph of a musician reflects his soul. I'm very interested in photography and in how the camera can capture per- sonality… –Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) The jazz photographs of Sergio Muscat aim to capture the entire physicality of a musician's performance in one telling story. For Sergio, seeing the music (performance) is as important as hearing it. But unlike Wassily Kandinsky's abstract paintings of musical improvisation or Piet Mondrian's rhythmic depictions of the sound of jazz, Sergio is not after representing the music genre through his preferred artistic medium. He is more interested in the artist's performance as an activity that develops over time. Capturing the real soul of the jazz musician requires Sergio to become synchronous with the performer's own movements. Snapping the picture is therefore a refined exercise in clockwork body movement and camera control. This performance by the photographer is also the technique used in Muscat's recent 'Soul Searching' series: a body of work which also incorporates the gambled gestures of the camera in movement as a means to capture the artist's personal memories of a place. Sergio's recent interest in such temporal afterimages has its roots in an internal search for the very soul of the viewer-viewed relationship, a pursuit for the absolute human experience befalling the photographer and the photographed. One therefore needs to view this body of work not as a document of the many prominent jazz musicians that have graced our shores over the many years that the Malta Jazz Festival has been organised, but rather as a collection of fragments of outstanding performances executed by a duo of artists – the jazz musician and the photographer. Like a duet, these works require the input of both performers equally and, if one were fortunate enough to have been present during one of those incredible starry nights at Ta' Liesse, one can truly relive the magic of the moment through each one of these works. Sergio Muscat's exhibition can be viewed at Palazzo de Piro in Mdina from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 until late