KamBrass will perform on July 17th at the Can Tàpera esplanade.

PalmThe Can Tàpera Esplanade in Palma will host a performance by KamBrass on Thursday, July 17th at 8:30 p.m. After winning first prize and the award for best performance of the work commissioned by Nina Šenk at the first edition of the Ljubljana Festival International Competition – Brass Quintets and Quartets 2025, KamBrass continues its concert tour of various national and international venues. After the concert at Musical Thursdays, the quintet will travel to the Swiss town of Sils and, on August 5th, will participate in the San Sebastián Musical Fortnight.

At the concert on Thursday, July 17th, Kambrass will present the program. Developments, inspired by the works on his first album. Developments represents the evolution of the brass quintet. The program includes a selection of works that have marked the development of the ensemble over time and demonstrate its great versatility. The musical journey will begin in the United Kingdom in 1596, with Renaissance dances by John Dowland, taken from his Lachrimae/Seven Tears. Interspersing pavans, gallants and germans, Dowland creates this collection from the mourning song Flow my Tears (My Tears Flow), one of the most emblematic works of the period. The audience will then hear an arrangement of Today let's eat and drink, a secular song by the Renaissance poet and musician Juan del Encina, which celebrates worldly pleasures before the beginning of Lent.

The program will continue with an original work for brass quintet: the Brass Quintet No. 1 by Victor Ewald, one of the first pieces composed expressly for that group. Catalonia, by Albéniz, and Andalusian, by Granados, underline the stylistic diversity that the quintet can achieve. The quintet will close with two works of more contemporary aesthetics: Dance Suite by Bernstein, the last work the composer wrote in his lifetime, where he attempts to fuse music and dance, and Windspiel, a piece with a jazzy spirit. This program celebrates how music for brass quintets has grown and transformed over the centuries, maintaining its essence and exploring new sonic horizons.

About the KamBrass Quintet (Barcelona, ​​​​2017): it has established itself as one of the most promising groups on the current music scene. Formed by five friends united by a passion for chamber music, the quintet stands out for its versatility, combining premieres, original repertoire, and idiomatic arrangements, always with musicality as the backbone. Tickets are priced at €15 and can be purchased at this link.