CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Orquestra de Cambra Catalana.
The Orquestra de Cambra Catalana was founded by Joan Pàmies in 1986. Throughout its 37 years career, it has remained loyal to its founding principles. The OCC offers the opportunity to perform for young musicians together with a stable staff of prestigious professionals; it collaborates with new Spanish soloists alongside other already hallowed names; it offers creators of contemporary music the possibility of performing their productions for the first time and enhance their knowledge and work likewise in the dissemination of the works of maestros of the past. In its wide repertoire, including all times and composers, it dedicates special attention to the performance and dissemination of Catalonian music.
The orchestra has also been congruent with the social role corresponding to it within its immediate vital context. Together with the entities working and organising cultural management, it has access to the venues nearest to the citizens to make concerts available to all segments of the population.
The orchestra has offered more than 700 concerts and has performed in some of the main auditoriums, series and music festivals in Spain. Also it has done the same in Albania, France, Italy, Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguai, Lebanon, Tunisia and China.
Soloists of the prestige of Nicanor Zabaleta, Montserrat Cervera, León Ara, Régis Pasquier, Evelyne Dubourg, Montserrat Torrent or Enrica Guarini have performed in its concerts. To this list, relevant names from the current scenario may be added, like Ludmil Angelov, Assumpta Mateu, Young Hee Kim, Jesús Angel León, Marco Fiorini, Clemence de Forceville, Albert Guinovart, Joan Espina, Marta Arbonés, Raquel Castro, Yuval Gotlibovich, Assumpta Cumí, Irene Mas or Alexandre Guerrero. Among the conductors that have taken the baton of the orchestra, of special importance are Mihail Angelov, Marçal Gols, Lucien Jean Baptiste, Yukio Kithara, Milen Nachev, Lluís Vila, Gerard Pastor or Josep Maria Sauret. The OCC has recorded for Radios and Televisions of Spain, France, Argentina, Mexico and Tunisia. It also has recorded six albums with unedited music, basically of Catalonian composers.
The regular performance of the OCC is consolidated in the spring, summer and Christmas concert series, besides the Encontres series taking place in the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea of Barcelona and is dedicated to contemporary music.
The orchestra is covered by the association bearing its name and counts with the support of the Catalonian Government, Barcelona Town Hall, Barcelona County Council, the Institut Ramon Llull and AIE.