Lukáš Baumann

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As happened last year, this year’s Easter Festival of Religious Music, with the subtitle of ‘Witness’, ended with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno. The Church of St. John on Minoritská street resounded to a work that was very close to the main theme of the festival – the story of Paul of Tarsus in the shape of Mendelssohn’s oratorio St. Paul. more

In Brno’s Blahoslavův dům a concert took place drawing on the legacy of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble. Rather than copying the project from the nineties the ensemble Cantar Lontano and Gavino Murgia provided an authentic interpretation and it was a great success.  more

Nearly sixty students of the Faculty of Music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts joined forces to launch two operas in their home-based Orlí Street Theatre. The evening belonged to a pair of chamber operas. The first one was the premiere of the short opera Mistrová, aneb Když bolševici zrušili Vánoce (Forewomen aka When the Bolsheviks Cancelled Christmas) by Petr Hala. And the opera The Little Prince by Miroslav Hába was performed for the first time after nearly forty years.  more

The 17th annual Špilberk International Music Festival opened on Tuesday with a concert of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir. The somewhat asymmetric program was filled with two well-known cantatas: Te Deum Laudamus by Antonín Dvořák and Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.  more

The forty-eighth year of the international music festival Moravian Autumn was opened by the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of its chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek. Leoš Janáček, Josef Suk and especially Antonín Dvořák are among the fundamental composers of the orchestra – which performed their compositions brilliantly.  more

A Requiem is a memorial service and its character is sombre. The Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno under the guidance of Petr Fiala has paradoxically chosen a requiem to commemorate twenty-five years of existence. The tenth season has been opened at the same time.  more