Music for flute and bassoon by Bozza, Mozart, Heinichen, Fialla, and Bach will feature in the next concert organised by St James Cavalier in aid of the St Catherine of Italy Church restoration fund.

The performance by Robert Calleja (flute) and Ulrike Buhlmann (bassoon) is being held in St Catherine’s Church in Valletta on Sunday 7 May at 11am.

Robert is a regular performer in chamber music. He is a member of the National Youth orchestra and forms part of the Trio D’Argento together with flutists Rebecca Hall and Fiorella Camilleri, the resident chamber ensemble of the Malta Flute Society.

He is also the choir director of The New Choral Singers. Mr Calleja was recently invited to Portsmouth to play during the annual concert of St Edmund’s College. He also attended Choir conducting master classes in Hereford.

German-born Ulrike Buhlmann started bassoon lessons at the Potsdam School of Music. She furthered her studies at the Hochschule fuer Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin with Prof. F Finsch. Ulrike specialised under the guidance of Prof. K Thunemann for four years in orchestral performing. Ulrike is a very active chamber music performer and forms part of the Trio Rosso, with whom she performed in Malta in 2005, the Berliner Windspiele and Duo Fagoettlich.

This concert is one from a series organised by St James Cavalier in collaboration with the Malta Flute Society.

Entrance fee is against a donation of Lm2. All proceeds will go towards the restoration fund of the Church of St Catherine of Italy. For more information contact St James Cavalier on 2122-3216 or email [email protected].