CHRISTOPHER MUSCAT

composer & conductor

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CHRISTOPHER MUSCAT

Photo: Joe Smith 2019

Latest news ...

Muscat on Melisma

Christopher Muscat's music is now available online directly from melisma.mt


Click here for catalogue of works available on melisma.mt or here for other works available through this website  

MESOGEIOS now available on MPO CD

Christopher Muscat's Mesogeios has just been released on CD performed by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) under the baton of principal conductor Sergey Smbatyan. This new CD released by Navona Records – Contemporary Colours - features new works by six Maltese composers.  

 
 

"The most impressive work, on a disc that is something of a revelation, is Christopher Muscat's Mesogeios (2017), a cleverly structured concertante suite in five sections (played without a break) for various Maltese exotica - including the zummara, zaqq and flejguta, all played evocatively by Francesco Sultana - percussion (including hand-clapped passages) and strings. The music's range of expression is extraordinary, evoking medieval and Levantine music (perhaps a relic of the Knights of St John), as well as African and Balkan music."

Gramophone 

sensitIV

Christopher Muscat's sensitIV, commissioned by the Malta Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce, has been nominated for Arts Council Malta's INNOVATION AWARD 2019.  


This work is divided in 4 movements:


i. Locus Iste (solo s, satb choir and percussion)

ii. Loop the Loop (marimba and live looping)

iii. Akva (piano and live electronics)

iv. Pavan (viola, choir, piano and percussion)


and was first performed on Tuesday 24th September 2019 at Palazzo de La Salle, Valletta performed by Daniel Cauchi (percussion), Nadia Debono (viola), the Goldberg Ensemble and Michael Laus (piano/conductor).

Upcoming events ...

11 November 2023

Christopher Muscat's Ave Verum, based on Prelude in C minor BWV999, will be performed by Gabriella Busa (mezzo) and Judit Schiller (harp) at St Stephen's in Baden (Austria), the very same place where Mozart´s Ave Verum was premiered back in 1791. Programme includes works by Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Jenkins. www.aveverum.at  


4 April 2023

Christopher Muscat's Stabat Mater will be performed at St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta Malta. Caroline Bruker soprano | Josef Bugeja cantor | Jubilate Deo Choir | Kor Malta | Malta Philharmonic Orchestra | Christopher Muscat conductor


25 November 2022

Liliia Pechenkina performs solo organ works by Christopher Muscat at the Co-Cathedral of St John's Valletta as part of the Malta International Organ Festival. Click here for more details.


12 November 2022

Eugen Prochac (cello) and Caroline Calleja (harp) perform Christopher Muscat's Elegy at a private concert at the President's Palace in Attard.


17 September 2022

Beibei Wang performs Christopher Muscat's Loop the Loop at the Society of Arts, Valletta, as part of Modern Music Days. Click here for more details.


2 September 2022

Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Michael Laus performs Mesogeios at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta.


28 June 2022

Luca Giacobbe performs Christopher Muscat's Loop the Loop as part of the Malta International Arts Festival


9 May 2022

Christopher Muscat gives a concert-lecture at the Conservatorio Statale di Music Licinio Refice in Latina. 


8 May 2022

Performance of Eternal Memories by Ensemble Freon at the Mattatoio concert hall in Rome. 


Sheet music store

You may now purchase copies of scores for study or performance purposes directly from the Sheet Music store.

The Global Climate Change Music Project

Because climate change is a planetary problem … composers from every country on the planet contributed 4 bars of music to create one composition that speaks for the earth.


Christopher Muscat is one of the 187 composers featured in this project. Click here for a preview of the project.

New work on CD

On 3 February 2018 Fondazzjoni Paulus launched the CD Celebrating St Paul that features Christopher Muscat's Cantata L-X ta' Frar 1928 performed by the Jubilate Deo Choir and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Marco Frisina. The launch took place at the Presidential Palace of Verdala under the distinguished patronage of H.E. Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta.


Click here to find out more.

Stabat Mater

Excellent review on Christopher Muscat's Stabat Mater in the prestigious music magazine TEMPO published by Cambridge University Press. Click here for review. 

It is indeed difficult to tackle the Stabat Mater, but Muscat's work impresses with its freshness
The Sunday Times of Malta  ~  December 1, 2013
"In this recording, Muscat guides the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, his distinguished soloists and the listener with authority and passion through his very personal vision of Mary's harrowing journey."
TEMPO ~  Volume 68, Issue 270, October 2014 pp 95-96