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Once Concert, Two Conductors
A pair of young conductors of the Faculty of Music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts will perform at a joint orchestral concert in Besední dům. Jiří Najvar and Jiří Habart, students of conducting, will be in charge of almost sixty players from the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra. Under their leadership, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Francis Poulenc and Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek will be heard. more
The international festival of noise, experimental music and performance follows the noise festivals of recent years that took place in the now closed Boro club and in the Paradox club. The Dutch band FCKN BSTRDS, Company Fuck from Australia and the noise propagator Dawid Kowalski, who appears under the stage name Purgist, will perform as part of this year’s festival. more
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music: Singer Pur, Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Brno Filharmonic and Dennis Russell Davies
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music enters its 27th year with the topic Garden and Vineyard. As part of the festival, we will get to see the German groups Singer Pur and the Ensemble Musikfabrik, followed by Motus Harmonicus, Cappella Mariana, Vox Iuvenalis, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and the Brno Philharmonic under new upcoming principal conductor Dennis Russell Davies. more
Inevitable Rods: An album by PQ, the jazz quartet of Pavel Zlámal
Pavel Zlámal’s Jazz quartet PQ has released its debut album called Tyče nevyhnutelné. All eight songs are available in digital versions on music apps such as Spotify, iTunes and Deezer. more
Composer and conductor Evžen Zámečník has died
Evžen Zámečník has died at the age of 79. During his musical career he was a composer, violinist and conductor. more
The first stage of the multi-genre Brno Music Marathon festival has announced its programme. Tickets are already on sale. Legends of the rock scene and absolute newcomers will perform as part of UrbanRock. The second week of August will offer us bands such as Enter Shikari, Dog Eat Dog, Hentai Corporation, The Adicts and many others. more
Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra: Young and Even Younger Together with Jiří Vodička
At the beginning of March in Brno a young orchestra will perform with even younger soloists. The third year of the concert with the title “Young and Even Younger” will take place this year in the Hall of the Merciful Brethren. Aside from two younger soloists, also appearing with the orchestra will be the leader of the Czech Philharmonic Jiří Vodička, and the director of the Czech Philharmonic David Mareček, unusually in the role of conductor. more
This year the theme of the international theatre festival is “Freedom?!” Over five days artists from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the USA will be appearing. more
News: JazzFestBrno opens the spring part of the festival with a film premiere
This year for the first time in the history of the festival the spring part will present a film production. There will be the Czech premiere of the documentary about one of the biggest personalities in Czech and world jazz with the title Miroslav Vitouš – jazzová legenda (Miroslav Vitouš – Jazz Legend). During the festival Miroslav Vitouš will also be appearing alongside Emil Viklický. The main part of the festival will open with a concert from the saxophonist Donny McCaslin, who among other things played on the last album by David Bowie. more
The National Theatre Brno is Filling Positions in the Opera Orchestra
The management of the National Theatre Brno is holding auditions for the opera orchestra for the positions of 2nd trombone with responsibility for the 3rd trombone, and for the position of 3rd trombone and for the position of orchestra handler. more
Connection, unity, contemplation - these words can be used to describe the musical evening of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis under the direction of David Eben and organist Tomáš Thon, which took place yesterday as part of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music at the church of St. Thomas. Not only the singing of a Gregorian chant, but also the works of composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) enlivened the church space with sound and colour for an hour. more
With a concert called Ensemble Inégal: Yesterday at the church of St. John, Zelenka opened the 31st edition of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music, this time with the suffix Terroir. This slightly mysterious word, which is popularly used in connection with wine, comes from the Latin word for land or soil, and carries the sum of all the influences, especially the natural conditions of a particular location and on the plants grown there. This term is thus metonymically transferred to the programme of this year's VFDH, as it consists exclusively of works by Czech authors, thus complementing the ongoing Year of Czech Music. more
For the fourth subscription concert of the Philharmonic at Home series, which took place on 14 March at the Besední dům and was entitled Mozartiana, the Brno Philharmonic, this time under the direction of Czech-Japanese conductor Chuhei Iwasaki, chose four works from the 18th to 20th centuries. These works are dramaturgically linked either directly through their creation in the Classical period or by inspiration from musical practices typical of that period. The first half of the concert featured Martina Venc Matušínská with a solo flute. more
The second stop on the short Neues Klavier Trio Dresden's Czech-German tour was at the concert hall of the Janáček Academy of Music on 6 March at 16:00. A programme consisting of world premières by two Czech and two German composers was performed in four cities (Prague, Brno, Leipzig and Dresden). more
The last opera première of the National Theatre Brno this year was Hurvínek Sells the Bride, which was co-produced with the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre. The première continued the thematic focus associated with the Year of Czech Music and took place on 24 November in the large hall of the Reduta Theatre. more
