The Victoria International Arts Festival, held this year in honour of Mro Joseph Vella, commences with an inaugural concert at St George’s Basilica in Victoria, and will see the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra perform Mendelssohn’s wonderful Violin Concerto op. 64 (soloist: Andrea Gajic), as well as Brahms’s Symphony no. 3 op. 90. The concert will open with Joseph Vella’s Overture, Rebbieħa op. 45. The MPO will be under the direction of Philip Walsh.