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The courses are for children and adults of all age groups. In the course of the winter semester there will also be several dance workshops.  more

The theme of this year’s Moravian Autumn festival is Revolution – evolution… ®evolution…. And as in previous years there will in addition be another philharmonic festival, the Exposition of New Music. This has the theme NEW ®EVOLUTION. During Moravian Autumn there will be performances from Accademia Bizantina, the Ensemble Berlin Prague, and the pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, David Greilsammer and Steffen Schleiermacher. The loudest composition in the history of the world will be heard – the Symphony of Sirens by Arseny Avraamov, as well as the world premiere of the new composition by Marek Kopelent with his personal participation and concerts for children.  more

The theatre is filling dancing roles in the musical Saturday Night Fever directed by Stanislav Moša, which is in preparation.  more

The controversial American band The Bad Plus is one of the best jazz trios in the world. The Trio, made up of Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King, will perform in Brno in November.  more

The opera singer Soňa Červená and the director Olga Sommerová will introduce the preview of the new documentary tomorrow in the Scala cinema in Brno.  more

The second year of the multi-genre festival Brno Music Marathon is approaching. The biggest summer festival in Brno will welcome dozens of international participants. Space will be given to various musical genres within the festival, from Balkan Brass bands via classical chamber and orchestral, jazz, folk, world music, rock, groups for children all the way to off-street busking. The musical programme will be supplemented by three performances of the new circus Collectif Malunés, street theatre, a magician and an acrobatic helium balloon.  more

This year Festival Ibérica will also be presenting Ibero-American culture in a variety of forms. Aside from the open air gala concert of Flamenco masters the programme offers creative workshops, a gastronomic fiesta in the city centre, film showings and an exhibition of photographs from Columbia. Alba Molina and Alba Heredia will be appearing.  more

The 30th year of the festival, with the theme NOVÁ ®EVOLUCE, is divided into three parts. June’s with the title Zvučící sochy (Sounding Statues) starts with the ringing of sound installations in the gardens of the Tugendhat and Löw-Beer villas, which remain uniquely linked during the event. Over the holidays the festival continues with “radioposlechem radioateliéru” (“radio listening to radio-atelier”) and in the autumn it links with Moravian Autumn 2017.  more

Kantiléna, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra’s children and youth choir, took part after two years at the European Choir Games. The competition took place in Riga in Latvia. The choir won in three categories.  more

The Brno singer Lada Šimíčková will be presenting her new album. She will be accompanied by the pianist and composer of the music Ivo Cicvárek.  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

With Thursday's concert entitled Bruckneriana, the Brno Philharmonic under the direction of Principal Conductor Dennis Russell Davies launched the subscription series Philharmonia in the Theatre I. The orchestra performed works by Anton Bruckner and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, a Polish-American conductor and composer who devoted his life's work to Bruckner. Performers wearing crimson sashes with the inscription "Playing forte!” appeared in front of the audience, joining the "Let's not let culture die” initiative, which draws attention to the underfunding of culture and opposes the government's plan to invest just 0.64% of the state budget into culture next year, moving further and further away from its promise to spend at least 1%.  more

The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra has been running the Orchestral Academy of the Brno Philharmonic (OAFB) project for nine seasons, enabling young talented musicians to gain orchestral experience in a professional ensemble. In this manner, the orchestra educates the next generation of musicians, both permanent and external. However, working here also gives young people the opportunity to show their skills in chamber music and in a concert series called Young Blood aka Music Up Close. The first seasonal concert took place on Wednesday 15 November at Besední dom.  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 programme for Janáček Brno 2024, an international opera and music festival now in its 9th year, was unveiled at a concert held to mark this occasion entitled Janáček to the start! On Saturday, 4 November, the Mahen Theatre was filled not only with devoted fans of the festival, but also with foreign journalists, politicians and prominent figures from the world of culture. In addition to a collection of wonderful musical performances, the audience was also treated to a lineup of renowned artists – Kateřina Kněžíková (soprano), Václava Krejčí Housková (mezzo-soprano), Josef Špaček (violin) and, last but not least, Robert Kružík, who took on the role of both conductor leading the Orchestra of the Janáček Opera at the National Theatre Brno during the evening and also performing as a cellist.  more