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The ArtBar club in Brno hosts another Funky Night. Funky Chicken, Brass Avenue and Michael V of J.A.R, called Helicopter will appear. The event will feature well-known funky hits as well as completely new ones; the concerts will be accompanied by video projections and a light show.  more

This Icelandic formation, headed by its founding members Daníel Ágúst and Biggi Veira, will bring its tenth album Lies Are More Flexible to Brno in autumn, released after a four-year studio pause in 2018.  more

Czech Ensemble Baroque, under the baton of Roman Válek, is about to be the first in the world to record Super Flumina Babylonis – the most famous work of the Czech native F. X. Richter. A collection on the Hithit crowdfunding platform is currently running to support the release of this album. You can contribute until 16 May 2019.  more

The Folklore Art City project focuses on classical music based on traditional folklore. The project builds on the previous original one named Folklore and Feelings. This evening, classical music will meet with folklore in Era Café; we will listen to works by Antonín Dvořák, Klement Slavický and Leoš Janáček, with the appearance of opera singers Aneta Podracká Bendová and Eva Marie Kořená.  more

This year's Dance Brno 2019 is a follow-up to last year's Dance Brno 100 and the Tanec Brno festival, which has been organized by the NdB Ballet for over 25 years. The current edition will present one of the leading Baltic groups, namely the Lithuanian National Ballet. The programme will be complemented by the Slovenian National Theatre Ballet in Maribor and the Italian contemporary dance ensemble Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. The Czech dance scene will be represented by the ballet company of the South Bohemian Theatre from České Budějovice.  more

Tickets for six selected concerts of Moravian Autumn 2019 are now on sale. The programme for the 50th festival reflects its roots and seeks new impulses in them. The festival (the still called the International Music Festival Brno) first took place in 1966, presenting the work of Bohuslav Martinů, a composer already recognised abroad but who was for political reasons marginalise at home. In the festival programme there will be performances for example from Piotr Anderszewski with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, David Greilsammer and his Geneva Camerata, Peter Eötvös and Dennis Russell Davies with the Brno Philharmonic, Alexandre Tharaud, Martinů Voices with Lukáš Vasilek, the Tiburtina Ensemble with Barbora Kabátková, Il Festino with Dagmar Šašková, Milan Paľa and Ladislav Fanzowitz.  more

This year there will once again be a joint concert of the Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra, Theatre Goose on a String and the P. Křížkovský Grammar School, playing the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub J. Ryba with the subtitle "Hey Václav!" The concert will be in memory of the figure of President Václav Havel.  more

The group Lady Praga with the singer Veronika Bergmanová, at its head is bringing to Brno’s Music Lab their second album Bez retuší (Without retouching)more

As is now traditional the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba will be performed in Brno’s Alfa pasáž by members and friends of HaDivadlo and the Švanda Cafe. The public dress rehearsal will take place on Sunday and the official concert on Christmas Eve.  more

The traditional New Year’s concert of the Brno Philharmonic will be taking place twice this year. The philharmonic concert will be welcoming the year 2019 and at the same time will also celebrate its 63rd birthday. Tomorrow’s concert will belong to famous jubilees. It is 200 years since the birth of Offenbach, Moniuszka and Suppé, and 175 years since that of Rimsky-Korsakov. There will be famous opera and operetta overtures and Dvořák’s cello concerto in B minor. It will be played by the British soloist Raphaell Wallfisch, cello teacher and conductor Robert Kružík, who will be in charge of the New Year’s concert.  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