Artitude Gallery together with Malta Council for Culture & the Arts are hosting an art exhibition entitled Portraits in Jazz as well as a book launch comemorating the 20th anniversary of the Malta Jazz Festival.

The Jazz exhibition and book feature work by the late Ebba Von Fersen Balzan, Jeni Caruana, the late Olaug Vethal, as well as photographers Darrin Zammit Lupi, Joe Smith, Patrick Fenech and Pierre Stafrace . These will take place at Artitude Gallery, 17, Tigne Street, Sliema between the 14 July and 7 August.

The first Jazz Festival was held in 1990, with a stellar line up that included Chick Corea, Michel Petrucciani and Alvin Jones. The Malta Jazz Festival is an annual, open-air jazz festival hosted in the world heritage city of Valletta.  The event is managed by the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts. Throughout the years, artists were very inspired by the Jazz music as well as the energies that the Jazz musicians passed on. Among the artists that loved jazz and painted the musicians each year were Ebba Von Fersen Balzan, Jeni Caruana and Olaug Vethal – who worked together very frequently . Among the photographers who frequently photographed the musicians were Darrin Zammit Lupi, Joe Smith , Patrick Fenech and Pierre Stafrace. The exhibition, as well as the book will be launched on Wednesday 14 July - on the eve of the Malta Jazz Festival opening day- which is being held at Ta’ Liesse , Valletta

The Portraits in Jazz exhibition, kindly sponsored by Bank of Valletta, Marsovin and Malta Council for Culture and the Arts, will be open between 10am-1pm and 4pm to 7pm daily from Monday to Friday and from 10am to 1pm on Saturdays . For more information , please contact Christine X on 21316708 / 9984 4653 or email [email protected]