Celebrity Concert (28-04-00)

The Classique Foundation is a non-profit cultural organization whose main aim is to promote culture by organizing musical concerts from time to time during the year. The foundation's other mission, while keeping a professional standard as much as possible, is to encourage and promote local artists especially those who are at the beginning of their musical career.

The idea of forming a foundation to organize musical concerts in Gozo was born after a vocal and orchestral concert, Celebrity Concert, was organized at the Gozo Cathedral on April 28, 2000. This concert was so successful that it was thought it would be ideal to organize such musical events from time to time during the calendar year.

The Foundation was founded in the year 2000 by its present artistic director Joseph Debrincat. The Foundation was official launched on May 5, 2001 with a vocal and orchestral concert Verdi in concerto commemorating the first hundred years from the great opera master's death. This concert was held in Gozo's capital, Victoria, at the Don Bosco Oratory Theatre.

The Classique Foundation is funded annually by local institutions who contribute in no small measure towards the realization of such musical concerts.