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News: The Concentus Moraviae Festival Begins Advanced Ticket Sales
Today advanced sales began for the Concentus Moraviae festival. The programme for the 22nd year of the festival has been prepared by Václav Luks. The starting point for its programme, focused on the human voice, is the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi. more
The Brno group Ňuňu is releasing their official debut album with the title Poslouchám Ňuňu (I Listen to Ňuňu). The album is coming out on a flash drive in the form of a bracelet and the group will christen it in the music club Fléda. Their guests will be the punk-rock group Fancy Foxx and the hard rock group Aeronaut. more
Hall for Brno: Construction Site Open Day
The construction site for Brno’s concert hall is once more open to visitors. Those participating will find prepared information on archaeological finds, support from important figures and inspiration from abroad. more
Nadace Český hudební fond (The Czech Musical Fund Foundation) Supports Students of Musical Disciplines
In the school year 2017/2018 the Nadace Český hudební fond (NČHF) is holding a competition with the aim of providing up to twelve study bursaries for students of universities and secondary music schools in the Czech Republic up to the age of 30 in the fields of composition, the interpretation of contemporary Czech music and musicology. more
The Brno concert of the Swans will be one of their last live appearances in their current line-up of this American legend in Europe. After completion of their world tour for their triple album The Glowing Man the group will be finishing in their current incarnation. more
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is seeking a First French Horn
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is holding auditions to fill the place of the 1st French horn and responsibility for the 3rd French horn, as group representative. more
Beránci a vlci (Lambs and Wolves). An Album by Four Ensembles
The musical group the Jitka Šuranská Trio, The Kudlovice Women’s Choir, RukyNaDudy and the Association of Independent Jazzmen together recorded an acoustic CD full of traditional songs from Moravia. The album was issued by Indies Scope. more
Premiere of the Musical Světlo pod Café Brel (The Light Under the Café Brel) in the Divadlo na Orlí
In the world premiere JAMU students of musical theatre have produced Světlo pod Café Brel. The author and director is the American actor, scriptwriter and guest teacher in Brno Gene Terruso. more
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra Plays for the Last Time in the Janáček Theatre. Music by Spanish Composers will be Performed and the Flamenco will be Danced
Concerts by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Janáček Theatre are ending due to the extensive reconstruction of the building. You can see the last performances of the philharmonic in the theatre tomorrow and the day after. In the programme with the title Čarodějná láska (Love, the Magician) Spanish musicians and flamenco dancers will perform. more
This Year the Brno Music Marathon will Take Place on new Dates
This multi-genre festival brings together musicians from Brno and guests, institutions, clubs and public spaces. In the course of a single summer weekend countless concerts will take place in various parts of the city. 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
