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Nevermore & Kosmonaut: Last concert with projection in the planetarium
The observatory at Kraví hora will welcome the Brno music group Nevermore & Kosmonaut. As part of the concert, there will be songs from their latest album Bleděmodré město [Pale Blue City], which won this year's nomination for the Anděl Awards. The evening will be accompanied by video projection on the entire planetarium dome and an exhibition of photographs by David Konečný. more
Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTRA celebrating twenty years since the release of their first album
The Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTRA band released their first album twenty years ago, and now produced its remake. At that time, the band debuted with a song named Horní chlapci [Boys from the Upper End], which referred to the Moravian Wallachian poet Ladislav Nezdařil. The re-recorded album will be launched in the Stará Pekárna music club in Brno. more
The Tourist Information Centre recently published the second part of its Authentic Guide THIS IS BRNO II. The city of Brno is presented in it by prominent local personalities from the ranks of artists, publicists, photographers and Brno patriots, plus one Prague writer. One separate chapter in the guide is dedicated to musical Brno; it was written by a performer who calls himself burning. more
The Fast Food Orchestra is a perennial star of the Czech Republic’s ska-punk and reggae scene. This year, it will celebrate its 20 years of existence with a series of spring concerts, and will also perform at the Fléda music club. Featured guests appearing in the concert will be Su-shu, Dr. Kary and a number of additional musicians who have gone through this band in the past. more
National Theatre Brno is looking for dancers for the production of The Tales of Hoffmann
The ensemble of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno is announcing an audition for dancers for the production of The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. more
Great opera productions are back on the stage of the Janáček Theatre
Productions of classical and contemporary repertoire are returning to the newly reconstructed Janáček Theatre in March and April. Part of the programme will be L’Amour de loin and the Epic of Gilgamesh / Dido and Aeneas. more
Summer School of Baroque Music 2019: Anastasia Baraviera, Robin Tyson and others
The Summer School of Baroque Music in Holešov focuses on performing vocal-instrumental works of older style periods in the style of informed interpretation of early music. Teaching takes place in the form of workshops and lectures led by domestic and foreign artists and teachers. This year's season offers tuition in all artistic categories that are involved in the performance of the compositions (choir, soloists, ensembles, positive organ, harpsichord, figured bass, violin, viola, cello, bassoon, flute and newly also baroque trombone – sackbut, percussion and viola da gamba). Among the lecturers of this year's run are Anastasia Baraviera, Tereza Válková, Jean-François Lombard, Robin Tyson and Roman Válek. more
Easter Festival of Sacred Music: World Première of a Composition by Toivo Tulev and Bach’s Easter Oratorio
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music 2019 will again resound in Brno‘s churches. There will be, for example, the world première of a composition by Toivo Tulev, Gregorian chant, Byzantine passion, a symphony for solo violin, organ concerts, dark hours, festive Renaissance Rome or Bach's Easter Oratorio. The theme of this year's season Ceremony / It's Good to Praise the Lord; the programme consists of six concerts and three dark hours. more
The composer of classical music František Chaloupka writes conceptual rock albums under the artistic nickname Iszek Baraque. Last year he issued a solo album under the same name. In January of this year, he issued a portrait in film to accompany this almost hour-long song album. This self-portrait was taken care of by the multimedia artist Panáčik, who also works together with Chaloupka on his compositions and operas. more
Orchestra of the National Theatre Brno opera ensemble is looking for a cello concert master
The National Theatre Brno management announces an audition for a cello concert master for the orchestra of the opera (a full-time job). 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
