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Brno’s Fléda club will resound to 70s punk. The concert of Britain’s The Vibrators will be opened by the Slovak power pop group Princovia, and the evening will be wound up by DJ Wrong. more
As part of a double concert in Brno’s Melodka club the alternative rock group Souperman and the rock group Abraxas will be performing. more
Thirteen of Brno’s music schools have applied to the nationwide happening of music schools in public spaces, ZUŠ Open, which will take place on Tuesday May 30: V. Kaprálové, PhDr. Z. Mrkose, P. Křížkovského, Orchidea Clasic, J. Kvapila, F. Jílka, Charbulova, Veveří, Smetanova, Slunná, A. Doležala, Universum and the ZUŠ specialised in church music. more
Benefit Concert by Brněnský Valášek
Folk songs, carols and pastorals will be performed by the folk ensemble Brněnský Valášek. The proceeds from the concert will be contributed to the purchase of a new organ for the Church of the Holy Trinity. more
We celebrate our 4th birthday and as a thank you to our readers, we announce a big birthday competition. Don’t miss the opportunity to win tickets to Magdalena Kožená and flamenco dancer Antonio El Pipa in concert. more
Christmas Memory of Jiří Bulis
The concert of Gustav Řezníček will commemorate the traditional Christmas concerts of Jiří Bulis in Kabinet múz. more
The Festival of Percussion Instruments - International Percussion Biennale enters its 4th year. Specialised workshops will be taught by Paul Rennick, Mark Ford and Ed Soph. The event is organised by the Faculty of Music of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. more
After three years, the Slovak band Billy Barman released a new album. The originally indie rock band now prefers electronics in its production. The opening band will be Himalayan Dalai Lama. 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
