Goyescas - inspired by Goya, live painting to the music of Granados

Another Maltese musician living and working abroad is pianist Maureen Galea.  I have invited her and her friend and colleague Dutch visual artist Maryleen Schiltkamp, to work together on a project based on Enrique Granados’ Goyescas – piano works inspired by painting of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. This is a Sunday morning recital with a difference – where painting and music speak to one another.  Painting becomes performance art, where sound and colours, music and imagery are brought to life, on stage before an audience, at the Malta Society of Arts – itself one of Malta’s special art galleries, itself, a restored seventeenth-century palazzo. A building with a turbulent history, this was even home to two brothers who were bailiffs in the eighteenth century – Henri and Guillieume de La Salle, hence the palazzo’s retained name: Palazzo de La Salle. I feel privileged to have been invited to curate the…