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During the summer, Brno's streets, squares, courtyards and courtyards will be abuzz with the Brno Music Marathon 2025 festival. This year for the tenth time. To be held at the beginning of August, this multi-genre festival will offer four days packed with musical discoveries, powerful emotions and prominent names from around the world. You can look forward to a selection of world music, jazz, folk, acoustic and experimental music from more than ten countries.  more

The motto of this year's ProART Festival is Transform_Heal_Through_Art. The international workshop festival of dance, music, acting, photography and other performing arts for professionals and the general public combines daytime art workshops with an evening programme. The Brno leg of the festival will take place at the Villa Engelsmann.  more

This year will see the fourth annual Ženfest pod třešní open-air music festival, which will once again take place in Trchova Zahrada garden near the Svitava River in the district of Brno-Maloměřice and Obřany. The garden will set the stage for the music of various female artists. The festival is hosted by singer-songwriter Martina Trchová, this year nominated for an Anděl Award for her album 90 % štěstí.  more

From 8 to 11 April 2025, Pesaro, Italy, will host the annual International Meeting of UNESCO Cities of Music. This city, known as the birthplace of Gioacchino Rossini, was, like Brno, included in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2017.  more

During April and May, Brno's Metro Music Bar will host several exceptional names from the world scene - British soul singer Mica Millar, guitar legend Neil Zaza and charismatic rocker Marco Mendoza, who has played with Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and The Dead Daisies.  more

This year sees Brno City Theatre continue its tradition of festive Easter concerts. This time, the latest symphonic work by composer Zdenek Merta will be performed, accompanied by poems by Petr Štěpán and complemented by Zora Jandová's paintings and sculptures by Pavel Tasovský.  more

In mid-June, the Brno City Theatre will be hosting a festival showcase of professional theatre entitled Dokořán (Open Doors for) Musical Theatre, the only festival dedicated to presenting contemporary musical theatre works. The festival's dramaturgs have compiled a selection of ten of the most interesting productions representing the best currently on offer on stages at home and abroad. The show will be complemented by an exhibition marking 80 years of the Brno City Theatre, as well as a concert by Meteor from Prague.  more

Today, Culture Minister Martin Baxa announced the results of the selection process for the new General Director of the National Theatre and appointed Martin Glaser to the post. He is expected to start on 1 August 2028.  more

The National Theatre Brno invites Brno lecturers, educators in culture and anyone working in audience education at cultural and educational institutions to come along to a joint meeting at the Janáček Theatre.  more

The production team and soloists will appear in a pre-première preview of the new production of Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut. The preview will take place at the Janáček Theatre and can also be watched online.  more

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The now world-famous Swedish band Dirty Loops finished their autumn European tour on Saturday, 30 November at Brno's Metro Music Bar. The band featured on the programme of the seventeenth annual Groove Brno funk, soul and jazz festival. The virtuoso trio, consisting of Jonah Nilsson - vocals and keyboards, Henrik Linder - bass guitar and Aron Mellergård - drums, are famous for their flawless technical proficiency, sophisticated original compositions and cover versions of well-known numbers, especially pop songs. However, these songs are often reharmonised in their arrangements and the style is more a combination of disco, pop and jazz fusion. To avoid having to resort to using pre-recorded backing tracks, the trio was joined on tour by keyboardist and vocalist Kristian Kraftling. more

Baladas da Luta, Fighting Ballads, is the title of the sixth album by Brazilian singer Mariana Da Cruz and her Swiss-Brazilian band Da Cruz. It is a combination of modern music that combines Latin American tradition and contemporary electronic elements with strong lyrics. In them, the author fights for women’s rights, stands up against dictatorships and specifically criticizes the atmosphere that has evolved in Brazil under the now former authoritarian President Bolsonaro. Da Cruz performed at Brasil Fest Brno in August 2023. We revisit this festival with an interview conducted following their concert at Zelný trh. Singer Mariana Da Cruz and keyboard player and producer Ane Hebeisn, performing as Ane H, responded to our questions.  more

The Brno-based singer-songwriter Yana recorded her first album Journey of the Soul in Dublin, Ireland, and invited a number of top Irish musicians to join her in the studio.  more

The Brno Philharmonic’s headquarters and one of Brno’s most important historical and cultural landmarks – the Besední dům – celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. Exactly on 3 April 1873, when the auditorium (great hall) of the building designed by architect Theophil von Hansen, author of the famous Musikverein in Vienna, was ceremonially opened, this magnificent building became the centre of Brno’s culture and its distinctive artistic life. A century and a half later – on Monday 1 May 2023 – an afternoon gathering and a subsequent concert entitled When Smetana First Played in Brno. . . will launch a series of concerts that pay tribute to unique milestones in the city’s cultural history.  more

Singer-songwriter Martina Trchová, winner of the Anděl award for her album Holobyt, recently disbanded her band and now performs mainly as a soloist. She is slowly working on a new album and is also focusing on visual arts. Her new book Babi, will soon be published, and she’ll also be holding another festival in the Obřany district of Brno.  more

La Cantiga de la Serena is a trio from southern Italy, focusing on the music of the Mediterranean, seen as a bridge between the West and the East. The ensemble's repertoire consists of medieval dances and songs, sacred songs including pilgrim songs, medieval secular songs, and songs of the Sephardic Jews who had to leave what is now Spain and Portugal at the end of the 15th century. In 2021, the group released its third and most recent album to date, La Mar, and in the summer of 2022 performed in Brno at the Maraton Hudby festival. You can even recall the concert thanks to this interview. Our questions are answered by Fabrizio Piepoli, who sings and plays the Italian battente chitarra, as well as Giorgia Santoro, who plays a variety of flutes and whistles, including the Indian bansuri and Irish tin whistle, and the Celtic harp. Finally, the third member is Adolfo La Volpe, who plays the Arabic lute, classical guitar and Irish bouzouki.  more

Last year’s album Morytáty a romance by Brno singer-songwriter and TV dramaturge Ivo Cicvárek scores points in annual polls beyond the pure folk genre. Ivo recorded his big project with his renamed band, which he now calls Živo, and a number of guests. In the interview he explains what is behind the songs of the album and talks about his future plans.  more

Naloučany is a small village on the Oslava River in the Vysočina region. The village has its own photographer, and his portraits of the village locals have found their way to the American Library of Congress and have become part of the largest collection of this medium since its beginnings. This is naturally a source of pride for nearly two hundred of the village’s inhabitants. That’s why they all joined forces to give their native photographer an event that would be remembered not only by them and by the photographer himself, but also by all the other visitors who took the trip through the snowy rolling landscape to the village’s community centre.  more

Noam Vazana, performing under the name Nani, is an Israeli singer who performs songs in the Jewish language Ladino. For her 2017 album “Andalusian Brew”, she collected folk songs, some of which she heard as a child from her grandmother. In 2021, she recorded her first original album of songs in Ladino, entitled “Ke Haber”. In autumn 2022, she performed in Brno at the Music Lab club in a duo with Brno percussionist Jakub Škrha. The following interview was conducted before the concert.  more

Martin Kyšperský and Aleš Pilgr recently celebrated twenty years of cooperation in the Květy (Flowers) group. While the bandmates and instruments around them have changed over the two decades, the two have remained a constant force in one of Brno's most essential bands of the century. This constant force, however, has been a dynamic one, as the two protagonists alternate between different instruments and approaches. Martin switches from the guitar to other instruments, and Aleš has gone from being a drummer to a double bassist and will be a drummer again from 2023. This context is then also important for understanding the new album Duo, which Kyšperský and Pilgr recorded as, well, a duo.  more


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Upcoming events

ObrFest 2025

21/06/25, 14:00 / Obřany - final tram station

The eleventh annual ObrFest will take place on June 20 and 21, 2025. The program includes music, theater, author readings, discussions and other accompanying programs for the whole family.

Flamenco will once again dominate the traditional gala concert of the Ibérica festival at Špilberk. Guitarist Manuel Valencia, percussionist Paco Vega and singer Felipa del Moreno will be joined by star dancer El Choro.

Duel of pianos

23/06/25, 20:00 / Špilberk Castle Courtyard

Can melodies from The Godfather, Pirates of the Caribbean or Ambulance, supplemented by symphonies by Smetana, Shostakovich or Mozart, be heard from the same stage? Are Bob and Bobek or ABBA better in piano performance? What do the compositions Vltava and On the Beautiful Blue Danube have in common? Were the Chalupáři really fans of the Humeberto Circus? What would Osudová sound like if Beethoven were an optimist? Was Mr. Tau's bowler hat more powerful, or Arabella's ring?

Breath of the White Crows – opening of the 2025-2026 season

24/06/25, 19:00 / Divadlo Na Orlí (Na Orlí Theatre)

A composed, almost cabaret-like evening, in which the next season of the Orlí Theatre will be presented on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, from 7 p.m., where Dod Gombár's musical acting studio will be performing. The evening will open with a work in progress of the first title, Songs of Gilgamesh. Subsequently, the students and creative teams themselves will provide a glimpse into other productions. In addition to taking a light look ahead, we will stop at key moments in their journey through their studies so far. You, our dear viewers, can also ask questions, whom we invite to a joint adventure and a joint dialogue in the coming months, with whom we will try to create a community and communicate. The next season is called Breath of White Crows, after which this evening was named. Do you want to know why? So come and tune in with us, find a common tempo of inhales and exhales in the music-dramatic laboratory of the Orlí Theatre.

Obligatne + Vanessa Weisz + Tryo

25/06/25, 19:30 / Divadlo Husa na provázku (Goose on a String Theatre)

Obligatne Kristína Mindová, known by her stage name Obligatne, returns in her solo work with a tender and at the same time intense expression that will transport the listener to a world full of touches of love and monologues of salvation. Vanessa Weisz A multi-genre singer, composer, artist, actress from Slovakia, musically combining dreamy pop melodies with a touch of electronics, blues and soft-rock. Tryo A Brno trio with Blansko roots formed by Šimon Podrazil (guitar, vocals), Lucie Čejková (bass guitar, vocals) and Hynek Čejka (drums) develops a dark and raw combination of shoegaze and post-rock aesthetics with noise psychedelia, which the band presented on the album Iodine Clock Reaction (2023) released by the Brno label Kabinet Records, which also released the debut LP Sustainable Gardening. The band is currently preparing their next album, which will push the boundaries of convention even further, relying more on organicity, spontaneity, and free improvisation.

Pop Messe 2025

26/06/25, 12:00

The multi-genre music festival Pop Messe focuses on contemporary pop, rap, electronic and indie music. The next edition of the festival will take place from July 24 to 26, 2025 at the Velodrome in Brno.

Pavel Brümer Tribute Band

27/06/25, 18:00 / Garden at the Pine Tree

Come listen to the songs of Pavel Brümer, which he sang with Fešáky. Come listen to the timeless hits, jokes and stories from life.

Vlasta Redl s kapelou

27/06/25, 20:00 / Kraví hora amphitheater

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, studio player, arranger and producer. His work is difficult to classify into a genre, as he works with a wide arsenal of musical styles - from folklore and folk, through various developmental stages of rock (folk-rock, jazz-rock, art-rock) to sometimes quite complex compositional and arranging techniques, for which he was nicknamed the Wallachian Mozart and the Moravian Oldfield by music journalists.



Listening Guide: Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta
with Jakub Hrůša
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