During December, Gozo’s Gaulitanus Choir spent a number of days in Austria’s capital, Vienna on a concert tour, which was hailed as “a great success.”

This was the choir’s 20th venture abroad – and was supported by the Art Council Malta’s International Cultural Exchanges Scheme.

Led by its musical director Colin Attard, the Gaulitanus choir said that it “rose to the occasion, performing and being acclaimed in some fantastic venues in the heart of Vienna, always to very sizeable audiences.”

This was a result of the close collaboration with Vienna’s TU Orchestra as well as the full co-operation of Vienna’s Persephone Choir. Both the TU Orchestra and the Persephone Choir not only coordinated the Gaulitanus’s full programme of artistic events but actually also participated in most of them.

The Gaulitanus Choir was involved in 4 different artistic engagements in this grand city of culture. It opened with a bang with the choir presenting a lunchtime concert at Vienna’s monumental St Stephen’s Cathedral.

Two Advent concerts featuring the Gaulitanus, the Persephone Choir and the TU Orchestra followed. The first was at St Peter’s Church, the second most important church in Vienna centre and a most important concert venue, and the other at Mary, Queen of Martyrs Church, the Rudolfsheim Catholic church in Vienna 15th district.

The Gaulitanus’s final commitment was at the historic campus of Vienna’s Technical University, specifically at the spectacular and very particularly-designed Kuppersaal. The choir was the special guest during the TU Orchestra’s grand symphonic concert.

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