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Music at Bellver Castle
KAMBRASS, a brass quintet, formed in Barcelona in 2017, will play at Bellver castle on Tuesday, August 16, at 8pm as part of the 100 per cent summer concert programme.
Curiosity and passion for chamber music are the incentives shared by the five friends to create this project.
Computer shop clash
NATIONAL POLICE officers arrested two men in Palma last Wednesday, after a serious fight broke out at a computer shop. The events occurred on Tuesday, July 18 in the Pere Garau area, when a client went to a computer shop to pick up a computer that he had left for repair.
It appears a misunderstanding occurred which led to a heated discussion. As the argument escalated, the client punched the shop worker in the face, then took a tablet and the monitor from the cash register and smashed them on the floor, breaking them. Immediately after, he left the establishment.
As soon as the client had left, the worker reported the incident to the police.The following day, the customer returned to the store but was denied entry by the worker.
In response, the client responded by violently hitting a display case, and proceeded once again to attack the worker. At this point, the worker picked up a metal bar and struck the customer on the arm.
Moments later, police appeared at the scene and, after clarifying what had happened, proceeded to arrest the two individuals. The client had to be transferred to the hospital after suffering a fractured arm.
During their career they have been awarded with several international awards and recognitions. In 2022 they won the 1st prize in the Philip Jones Brass Preis in Lucerne, the 2nd prize in the prestigious Anton Garcia Abril competition, from Baza, Granada, and the 2nd prize in the Cambra Romananica d’Andorra competition.
KamBrass was also nominated for the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes 2022. This same year, they were selected by the Casals Quartet to participate in the 2nd Chamber Music Professional Training Conference in Vic and received scholarships from Joventuts Musical Internationals to be part of the Chamber Music Campus 2022 in Weikersheim, Germany.
They were awarded the prize for participation in the Hohenloher Kultursommer 2023 Festival.
ANYONE whose phone doesn’t automatically block spam calls can now breathe a sigh of relief.
The new Telecommunications Act came into force in Spain on Thursday, June 29. According to this, companies that offer goods and services are no longer allowed to make advertising calls (llamadas spam) without the explicit consent of the consumer.
With English mobile phone numbers, receiving Spanish spam calls were rather rare,
In 2021 they were awarded the American Brass Quintet Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in the United States and were also semifinalists in the renowned Juventudes Musicales de España competition.
In December 2020 they received 2nd prize at the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition and the Gold Star Award in the Emerging and Professional categories of the Music and Stars Awards online competition.
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