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The Czech-New Zealand group Metronome Blues is bringing out their third album. Vicious Circles is being issued under the independent label Happy Mutant. The group is christening it today in the Mersey club. more
The Jazz Spring 2018 Festival promises 25 jazz concerts in the Stará Pekárna club. There will be performances from David Dorůžka & the Luboš Soukup Quartet, the Vince Agwada Blues Band, the Nigel Price Trio, The Flash! and many more. more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performed in Brno 250 Years Ago
Today is the anniversary of the Brno concert by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Maria Anna. The concert took place in the premises of what is now the Reduta Theatre. more
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno is looking for a new Choir Master
The Director of the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno invites for applications for the post of the Choir Master. more
The Brno B-SIDE BAND of bandleader Josef Buchta has a new video for the composition Meeting Point, which is part of the album with the same name. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: An Advent Concert for Euroradio Christmas Music Day
Ensemble Opera Diversa has prepared an advent programme of contemporary religious music for Euroradio Christmas Music Day. There will be performances of the works O antifony for baritone and strings and the Magnificat for choir and strings by their court composer Ondřej Kyas and the Sonata da Chiesa by Peter Graham. The concert will be conducted by Gabriela Tardonová, with the baritone Roman Hoza, the Ensemble Opera Diversa orchestra and the Ensemble Versus choir performing. more
Magdalena Kožená invites you to a Concentus Moraviae festival full of music and humour
Magdalena Kožená, patroness of the Concentus Moraviae festival, today will take the stage of Brno’s Boby Centre with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers. This benefit concert for the festival will jointly promote the songs of Cole Porter and at the same time invite us to the next year. The event will also include the christening of the Cole Porter CD with songs which will be performed by Kožená and Havelka’s Melody Makers in a premiere as part of this year’s Concentus Moraviae festival. more
The album Moravské hlasy (Moravian Voices) captures the phenomenon of the South Moravian art of singing
A CD named Moravské hlasy has just been released by Jiří Plocek. The CD introduces a unique phenomenon of the South Moravian art of singing through a set of songs performed by various singers and choirs from different places in South Moravia. more
The Soul-funk group Top Dream Company has released their fourth album, and will christen it in Brno. more
News: Janáček Brno Festival wins award
The current conception and realisation of the Janáček Brno festival has won the award of Czech Opera Professionals. The committee of the Musical Theatre Association, which organises the festival Opera, gave the Janáček festival the award for significant achievement in the field of musical theatre. The award was accepted by the director of the National Theatre Brno Martin Glaser and the Artistic Director of the Janáček Opera NdB Jiří Heřman. The award of the Opera festival director was won by Ensemble Opera Diversa for their staging of the opera by Ondřej Kyas and Pavel Drábek Čaroděj a jeho sluha. 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
