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15 WHAT'S ON maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 30 MARCH 2016 this week Inga Boissevain's novel at all leading book shops @ €8.99 MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE APRIL 5 Laetitia Amodio Piano Recital Concert by the 14-year-old pianist at San Anton Palace, Attard at 20:00. Programme: Beethoven – Sonata no.21, op.53 (Waldstein), Liszt – Après une lecture de Dante, Sonata quasi fantasia and Debussy – Feux d'artifice. Bookings: http://bit.ly/1ZrylFE. APRIL 6 Off to Titan Marseille's enfant terrible of electronic music Philippe Petit will give us his rendition of Mahler's 'Titan' Symphony no.1 'Post-Classical' soundtrack at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier), Valletta at 20:00. Programme: Gustav Mahler – Philip Jeck – Bernhard Herrmann - Luis & Bebe Barron's 'Forbidden Planet'. Bookings: http://www. kreattivita.org/. APRIL 7 Flute & Guitar Duo The Italo-Maltese Camilleri- Lucini duo will be giving an eclectic performance of Granados, Ibert and Piazzolla at Palazzo Pereira, Valletta at 20:00. Bookings: http://bit.ly/1T62Ksw. APRIL 8 Hop Trio! & Ritmi-KA Ensemble project This year, the International Spring Orchestra Festival has teamed up with Education+ to bring three highly-regarded percussionists, forming the Hop Trio, over to Malta once a month for three months to work with two selected colleges. Taking place at Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Valletta at 20:00. With the help of their teachers, the local musicians will transform their experience into a piece to be performed tonight by the ritmi-KA Ensemble (Rhythms – Creative Action). Programme: Mexican snare (François Narboni), Fanny au bar (Karl Fiorini), Musique de table (Thierry de Mey), Cette totalité en ruine (Pierre-Adrien Charpy) and HOP Trio + Ritmi-KA Ensemble. Bookings: http://bit.ly/1q1QLAE. APRIL 9 Grand Orchestral Closing Concert Concluding concert for the International Spring Orchestra Festival at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta at 20:00. Featuring the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of its principal conductor Brian Schembri, pianist Lucia Micallef, soprano Claire Debono and the New Choral Singers performing Roland Conil's Arianne et Dionysos, Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony no1 & Choral Fantasy op.80, as well as Karl Fiorini's 'of gods and dogs'. Bookings: http://mcc.com. mt/. APRIL 9 Stalko Album Launch The folk-pop band Stalko will be launching their second album A Long Wave Goodbye at The Palace Theatre, Paola at 21:00. Bookings: http://bit.ly/1YENV0d. EXHIBITIONS UNTIL APRIL 6 Sensory Apparatus Collective exhibition by the artist in residence at Blitz, St Lucy Street, Valletta. Featuring work by Bonamy Devas, Libby Heaney and Anna Ridler. Comprising a three- room installation and education room, Sensory Apparatus is a collaborative, interdisciplinary installation, making visible the incessant flow of data we constantly and often unknowingly create, bringing into question our perception of how technology shapes the apparently 'optimised' society we live in. UNTIL APRIL 10 Soar – Anatomy in Motion This installation is the culmination of a five-year long project by physician Charles Paul Azzopardi, where the display of a corpus of 44 photographic prints is based on the practice of dance, photography and original writing. Taking place at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier), Valletta. Opening Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 10.00 to 15:00; Friday, Saturday 15:00 to 19:00. Gallery floor talks with the artists: Saturday 19 March 16:00 and 18:00. THEATRE APRIL 7–10 Teatr-ejn Double-bill performance of two original Maltese-language plays at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier), Valletta at 20:00. Featuring 'Inverzjoni', written by Stefan Magri and directed by Tyrone Grima; and 'It-Tfajjel ta' fuq il- Bandla' written by Andre Mangion and directed by Josette Ciappara. Bookings: http://www.kreattivita. org/. APRIL 8–10 World Premiere: The Price of One by Edward Bond World premiere of Edward Bond's latest play at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta at 20:00. Written by Edward Bond and directed by Chris Cooper. Cast includes: Malcolm Galea, Magda Van Kuilenburg, Andre Agius and Simone Spiteri. Devised in conjunction with Malta's Unifaun Theatre Productions. It will premiere in Malta before travelling to the Edinburgh Fringe. Supported by the MAF Large Projects Fund. APRIL 8, 9; 15, 16; 22, 23 God's Official Mostly Harmless production of Robert Farquhar's football comedy at Blue Box, Mdina at 20:00. Directed by James Calvert. Cast includes: John Montanaro, Steve Casaletto and Chris Dingli. Tickets are at €10 and €18. Bookings: http://bit.ly/1WHQ0XU. BOOK FESTIVAL APRIL 5–7 Campus Book Fest The Għaqda tal-Malti – Università and the National Book Council are organising the third edition of the University Book Festival, known better as the Campus Book Fest. The Festival will take place at the University Campus, Tal-Qroqq from 09:00 till 14:00 and from 16:00 till late. Several publishers and distributors will be participating, and there will be talks and workshops running throughout. This year's special festival guest is the Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny. On April 6, Kristny will be giving a workshop related to the re-writing of Norse Mythology and on April 7, we will be closing off the festival with a reading of her work followed by a Q&A session. Malcolm Galea and Simone Spiteri in The Price of One Teatr-ejn at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta PHOTOGRAPHY BY BY JACOB SAMMUT