Kenneth Zammit Tabona was born in 1956 and educated at St Aloysius College. Worked for Barclays Bank, Mid-Med Bank and HSBC Bank from 1973 to 2001 in various managerial roles including Head of Business Development, Public Relations, Advertising and Customer Service. Zammit Tabona reviewed music and theatre for the Malta Times and Sunday Times from 1975 to 2010. Served on the Manoel Theatre Management Committee from 1989 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2004 as Hon. Secretary and from 2010 to 2015 as Deputy Chairman. He is the founder and artistic director of the Valletta International Baroque Festival since 2012. Zammit Tabona has also founded the Valletta Baroque Ensemble and The Monteverdi Project to have locally-based performers execute works by 17th- and 18th-century Maltese and Italian composers in the employ of the Episcopate of Malta and the Order of Malta. Zammit Tabona has also founded yet another annual festival; the Valletta Baroque Opera Festival. He is also a well-known Maltese book illustrator and watercolourist with many exhibitions under his belt and paintings found in prestigious collections both in Malta and overseas including Berleymont in Brussels. His is an instantly recognizable style using strong colours and distinctive shapes always epitomising the beauty of his land of birth; whether through its landscape, urbanscape, or interiors. Zammit Tabona is a board member of Versailles based Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne and former president of the Association of Historic Theatres of Europe. He has been awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and Cavaliere Dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia by the Italian government for his services to culture. Mr Zammit Tabona was also the founder president of the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts.