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The Acoustics of the Concert Hall in Brno will be taken care of by Nagata
Nagata Acoustics America, Konior Studio and Architekti Hrůša & spol., Atelier Brno. This team looks like it will be the supplier of project documentation for a building permit and project documentation for the above-ground parts of the Janáček Cultural Centre. This is a new concert hall that will be a base for the Brno Philharmonic. The expert commission today recommended the contracting authorities that they choose this team. more
Meditation – to the Victims of the Tsunami 11/3 will be heard in Besední Dům today and tomorrow
The Czech premiere of the composition Meditation – to the Victims of the Tsunami 11/3 by Toshio Hosokawa will take place today and tomorrow in Besední Dům. The work is a reaction to the results of a natural catastrophe which struck the north-east coast of Japan in 2011. The Brno Philharmonic and Vilém Veverka will perform under the leadership of Alexander Liebreich. more
Jazz Evening: The Cotatcha Orchestra and Vincenc Kummer
The big band Cotatcha Orchestra is giving a concert devoted to the life and works of the legendary jazz double bass player Vincenc Kummer. The programme will be introduced by Jan Dalecký. more
News: Petr Oslzlý to be the new rector of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts
The academic senate elected the dramaturge, scriptwriter, actor and teacher Petr Oslzlý to be the new head of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He was competing for the post of rector with Barbara Maria Willi. more
The Lučina folk ensemble celebrates its 45th birthday
The folk ensemble Lučina Brno is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a display of singing and dancing groups with musical accompaniment from the ensemble CM Lučina. The festive evening will end with a gathering around the cimbalom. more
News: Tomorrow evening Brno will resound to the Symphony of Sirens
Tomorrow sirens will start to sound in Brno, there will be twenty-five cannon shots, the engines of starting aircraft will be heard and the sirens of ambulances and fire engines will go off. All these sounds of the city are part of the Symphony of Sirens, the loudest composition in the history of mankind and one of the highpoints of the Moravian Autumn festival. more
The National Theatre Brno presents the opera L'elisir d'amore
The opera by Gaetano Donizetti is being presented by the National Theatre Brno in the directorial conception of Magdalena Švecová. The musical arrangement of Ondrej Olos accompanies the singers: Ondřej Koplík, José Manuel, Kateřina Kněžíková, Roman Hoza, Tereza Kyzlinková and others. more
The Brno group Funky Chicken christens its new CD with ostrich egg in the Metro Music Bar. more
This jubilee 10th year of the festival plays host to Maceo Parker, Ernie Watts, Jeff Lorber, The Puppini Sisters, Vojtěch Dyk & B-SIDE BAND and many others. more
Děti mezi reprákama christen their album Prázdniny
The Indie folk group Děti mezi reprákama is bringing out their third album and will christen it in Brno. 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
