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CHARLES CAMILLERI (b. 1931 ) Truly Lengnick's most universal musical character, Charles Camilleri was born in Malta and during his life has travelled a great deal and lived in Australia, Canada (where he graduated from the University of Toronto in composition), and England. At an early age he started improvising on the piano and then composing pieces. In Malta, which in the years since 3600 BC has been inhabited by a myriad of cultures, he was influenced by the colour and gaiety of Maltese folk music, as well as picking up the primitive rhythms and wider intervallic relationships of Africa and the microtonal melismatic melodies of India, Japan, and the North African countries. His development through research of folk music, improvisation, attention to the music of Africa and Asia, and academic study of European music led him to develop his own uniquely universal style. In 1992 his music was featured in 13 international music festivals! Charles Camilleri has said that barlines imprison music and his 'atomisation of the beat' in some works allows his music a form in which nothing is fixed and the music evolves of and from itself with fluency and inevitability. He feels that the precise position of the beat and the barlines are just a convenience for coordination in performance - they do not govern the music. Charles Camilleri has composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments. Lengnick's gives a sampling from the most European to the most universal. SOME
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