Malta International Piano Festival 2026 features

Piano Recital by Stanley Wong  "Anachronic Bestiary: Fantasies, Legends & Fairytales"

Stanley Wong 鋼琴獨奏會 《時空錯置的神獸動物圖鑑：奇幻故事、傳說與童話》

Anachronic Bestiary is a cabinet of curiosities intertwining classical architecture with vivid contemporary narratives. An unknown realm of fantasy and wildlife is awakened. You will encounter a Scandinavian goose (Medvedovskaya's "Nils"), the carefree English rabbit (Rudow's "Alice"), and the solemn, century-long solitude of a Galapagos giant tortoise (Cohen’s "Lonesome George"), elevating the bestiary into a profound meditation on ecology, the passage of time, and existential solitude. These are interspersed by Bach’s intricate Fantasia, Brahms’s introspective dreamscape, and Fábregas's shimmering Mirage. All fantasies retreat to the edge of the abyss—where the raging sea and the hounds of myth awaken in Franz Liszt’s epic finale (Ballade No. 2).

Programme
Nataliya Medvedovskaya
Suite for solo piano based on "The Adventures of Nils" Orchestral Ballet - I. Craftswomen weaving a lace in the underwater city
 
J. S. Bach 
Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827
 I. Fantasia
II. Allemande
​III. Corrente
 
Vivian Adelberg Rudow
Alice Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends a Little Bill (2016)
 
Elisenda Fábregas
Mirage (1997)
 
Robert S. Cohen
Galapagos Suite : IV. Tortoise Moon (for Lonesome George)
 
J. Brahms
7 Fantasien, Op.116 No. 4 in E major. Intermezzo
 
F. Liszt
Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171

Full Festival details: https://www.pianoacademy.mt/malta-international-piano-festival-2026-programme