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Jan Fic released his debut album Město (“City”) in cooperation with the producer Martin E. Kyšperský in December of last year. The performance will include the band The Weathermakers together with guests who took part in making the recording. more
The Láska opravdivá male vocal choir is extending its ranks
The Láska opravdivá [Truthful Love] male vocal choir, which works in Brno at the Institute of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University under the leadership of Jan Špaček, announces an audition for singers. more
Brno City Theatre is Performing Sting’s Musical The Last Ship in its Czech Premiere
The musical The Last Ship is the work of the English singer and musician Sting. The authors are John Logan and Brian Yorkey. The Brno City Theatre are performing it under the direction of Stanislav Moša. The main roles will be taken by Lucie Bergerová or Radka Coufalová, Dušan Vitázek or Kristian Pekar, Zdeněk Junák or Ladislav Kolář, and many others. more
Nevermore & Kosmonaut Are Nominated for Anděl Award
The Brno groups Nevermore & Kosmonaut have been nominated for an Anděl (Angel) Award in the folk category. Their album Bleděmodré město (Pale Blue City) is inspired by Brno. The prize-giving ceremony will be broadcast live by the Czech TV channel ČT1 at the beginning of March this year. more
Music Workshops for Mothers with Children
Part of the educational programme of the Brno Philharmonic is a cycle of workshops for mothers with children. These begin at the end of February and have been put together in cooperation with the Jiří Mahen Library. They are intended for children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years. more
The Prague Cello Quartet Heads for Brno
The ensemble of four young cellists, the Prague Cello Quartet, is preparing a concert in Brno’s Sono Centre. The concert will be taking place as part of their HAPPY Tour, presenting their new album HAPPY. more
Today the Brno Philharmonic Embarks on a Tour of Japan
Today, 6 February 2019, the Brno Philharmonic is setting off on a tour of Japan. They will spend 18 days in Japan, with the orchestra giving a total of eleven concerts in ten concert halls in nine cities. The tour will involve eighty-three musicians, the conductor and two soloists. Works by B. Smetana, A. Dvořák, P. I. Tchaikovsky and L. van Beethoven will be performed in the concerts. This is the orchestra’s tenth tour in Asia. more
The Janáček Opera Company is Seeking New Singers
The Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno is holding auditions for altos and tenors. The auditions will take place in March. more
Petr Řezníček Has Died
On Monday, in his 81st year, Petr Řezníček died. He was a musical director and head of the artistic realisation of music broadcasting at Czech Radio Brno. more
News: Opera Singer Marie Steinerová has Passed Away
Opera singer Marie Steinerová was a solo singer for the then State Theatre and now National Theatre Brno in the years 1948-1981. In 2004, she was awarded the Thálie prize for lifelong achievement in the field of opera. Today, the National Theatre Brno informed us of the passing of the eminent singer of Janáček’s works. 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
