On Tuesday, 7 April at 7.30pm, the Naxxar Parish Church will be hosting an evening of spiritual reflections on Passiontide entitled Is-Sinjal tal-Fidwa with the participation of the Jubilate Deo Choir.

During this event, the choir – under the direction of Christopher Muscat – will be singing sacred compositions by de Victoria, Palestrina, Lotti and Bach as well as plainchant works by the choir’s own Cappella Gregoriana.

The Jubilate Deo Choir was founded by Rev. Paul Caruana in 1974 as a girls’ choir and has since grown and developed into one of Malta’s leading choirs in the field of sacred music. Over the years the choir performed at the Manoel Theatre on many occasions and also took part in the BBC production Songs of Praise that was televised worldwide. In 1990 the choir sang during the visit to Malta of Pope John Paul II.

Following the successful first Maltese performance of Camille Saint-Saens’ Oratorio di Natale in December 2005 the Jubilate Deo Choir received a number of prestigious invitations, most notably in November 2006 when the choir took part in the revival of Paolino Vassallo’s Messa da Requiem and Charles Camilleri’s opera Il-Weghda alongside the National Orchestra of Malta.