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64th season of Brno Philharmonic: World and Czech premieres, L. van Beethoven's anniversary celebrations and more
Two world and three Czech premieres, 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, a combination of older and contemporary works such as Schumann - Vasks, Brahms - Nejtek or Mendelssohn - Rautavaara.This is the upcoming 64th Philharmonic season, which will also welcome the fresh Grammy winner Laurie Anderson to Brno. more
ProART festival has revealed thirty summer workshop tutors
The ProART festival is entering its 16th season this year. This international festival of dance, singing, acting, photography and other performing arts has revealed thirty tutors for summer workshops, which take place in five cities of the Czech Republic. The motto of this year's season is "Trust in yourself... follow your dream...". Among the tutors at the Brno part of the festival there are dancers Eran Gisin, Leoni Wahl and Žiga Jereb, writer Tereza Boučková, singers Ilona Csáková and Lukáš Janota, and actress Vica Kerekes. more
Latest news: Lectures by Estonian composer Toivo Tulev and others are starting today
A series of lectures by Estonian composer Toivo Tulev and other guests will begin today as part of course titled Contemporary Sacred and Spiritual Music in the Baltic Region at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. These lectures are open to the public. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: Rusko – Rusko Recital
Ivana Rusko (née Krejčiříková) was one of the first primadonnas in the history of the ensemble. Now, Rusko will appear in Brno after many years with her husband, the tenor Jan Rusko and Slovakian pianist Matej Arendárik. The programme of the concert is a cross-section of Czech and Slovak music composers ranging from Vítězslav Novák to Peter Špilák. more
Flutist Martina Komínková is preparing a multi-genre project The Prophet and the Wind. She seeks support at Hithit
The flute player and teacher Martina Komínková is currently preparing a project entitled The Prophet and the Wind, based on the novel of the same name by Italian writer Stefano Biavaschi. The author of the music and the key protagonist is Komínková herself. Two premières await the project, one in her hometown Brno and one in Italy. Komínková is now looking for financial support on the Hithit web portal, where you can contribute until 30 May 2019. more
Monkey Business, the fresh Anděl Award winning band, hit the road for a spring tour as a promo to their recent album Bad Time for Gentleman. This time they will be accompanied by vocalist Tereza Černochová. more
Janáček Brno is the winner of The International Opera Awards
The International Opera Awards were announced on 29 April 2019 in London, where it was taken over by the director of the National Theatre Brno Martin Glaser, and the artistic director of the opera Jiří Heřman. more
The music festival ObrFest will take place in Brno – in the Maloměřice and Obřany district for the seventh time. During one June weekend the stage will include musicians such as Lenka Dusilová, Kittchen + Aid Kid with projections by Linda Arbanová, Lazer Viking, Už jsme doma, Jiří Schmitzer and British blues singer-songwriter Justin Lavash. As every year, the festival will include Brno bands and musicians from Maloměřice and Obřany. The accompanying programme of the festival also includes children’s activities. more
The festival of blind and partially sighted children and youth enters its 30th season. What originally was a musical show of visually handicapped children has eventually become a several-day international festival, which brings the "dark blue" reality to the general public. more
Brno Philharmonic opens the position of PR and Marketing Manager
The management of the Brno Philharmonic announces a tender for the position of PR and Marketing Manager. Starting from 1 June 2019. 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
