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Petr Dvorský will celebrate his birthday with a big concert during the 2016 JazzFestBrno Festival. Performing will be Emil Viklický, Andy Winter, Johannes Enders and more. more
Thálie Award for Jaroslav Březina for the Role of Laco in the Brno Production of Jenůfa
Tenor Jaroslav Březina won the award for outstanding performance in the opera production of the Brno National Theatre. Bassist Dalibor Jedlička, who studied and performed in Brno, received an award for lifetime achievement in opera. more
News: Květy and Ponk Won 2015 Genre Anděl Awards
Two bands from Brno have been holders of the 2015 Genre Anděl Awards since yesterday. Květy won the award for their album Miláček slunce in the Alternative Music category and Ponk for World Music. more
Once again, the programme of the 2016 Divadelní Svět Brno International Festival features musical works. Musicals will be represented by the Zlín City Theatre with the production called Malované na skle (Painted on Glass), guests from Israel will present the cabaret Dům u jezera (The House at the Lake), and the Brno National Theatre will perform Bohuslav Martinů’s The Epic of Gilgamesh. more
News: Construction of a Concert Hall in Brno Supported by More Artists and Politicians
The new concert hall, which has been discussed in Brno for decades, has received support from personalities such as Milan Kundera, Milan Uhde, Maxim Velčovský and Kateřina Tučková. The patron of the hall is Magdalena Kožená. more
The rock-pop band is saying goodbye to one of its founding members after 15 years. They will release their fourth album at the last concert. more
Jazz musician and Grammy winner Oran Etkin will lead a children's workshop on a music teaching method called Timbalooloo. more
New Musical Season at Brno City Theatre
In the following season 2016/2017, Brno City Theatre will offer a total of four musical premieres. The programme will feature performances such as Lemonade Joe and Jeanne d’Arc, a new musical Beatles and jazz work by Miloš Štědroň and Milan Uhde Viki kráčí za štěstím (Viki Walking Towards Happiness). more
The Echoes Festival explores the boundaries between the analogue, digital and audiovisual world. The star of the festival, which will take place at Fléda Club, is Bokka, a band of five from Poland. Furthermore, Herzog Herzog from Slovenia and Dirty Picnic, HRTL and Holy from the Czech Republic will perform. more
Symposium: Art, Music and Management
The fourth meeting of students, teachers and experts in the field of music and arts management will be held at the JAMU in Brno. Invited guests operate in the representation of artists, in the music industry and in educational institutions. 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
