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Cotatcha Orchestra is preparing a new project combining unique compositions tailor-composed for the orchestra and its soloists with ambient electronic music. The Brno concert is announced to take place at the beginning of November at Divadlo na Orlí. more
An open air concert will open the new season of the National Theatre Brno
The 2019/2020 theatre season of the National Theatre Brno (NdB) will be officially opened by a joint performance of NdB artists on the piazzetta in front of the Janáček Theatre. Under the baton of the conductor Marko Ivanović there will appear soloists such as Jana Šrejma Kačírková, Pavla Vykopalová, Václava Krejčí Housková, Roman Hoza, Jiří Sulženko, Ondřej Koplík and others. Together with them the choir and orchestra of the NdB Janáček Theatre's opera ensemble will appear and present the upcoming season and its titles. more
International Folklore Festival Brno 2019 is about to begin tomorrow
The International Folklore Festival Brno has been held regularly since 1990, always at the end of the school holidays. The opening gala ceremony of this year's festival will take place tomorrow in the courtyard of the New Town Hall. We will see performances by BROLN and VUS ONDRÁŠ [Ondráš Military Artistic Ensemble] with their soloists. During the festival there will also appear ensembles such as Silesianie from Poland, Volynianka from Ukraine or Seljačka Sloga from Croatia. more
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Gideon Klein celebrations will make Brno's villas sound with music
The Gido Returns Home project commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of musician, composer, teacher, music promoter and native of Přerov Gideon Klein. In the framework of this project, the artist will symbolically return home to his native town of Přerov and also to the places he used to love. In Brno, it will be the Löw-Beer villa, where a birthday celebration called Jazz for Gido is going to be organised; it will be followed by a concert along with a guided tour in the Stiassni Villa. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: Contemporary Religious Music in Brno
Ensemble Opera Diversa is preparing the second performance of the 25th symphony by the composer František Gregor Emmert in Brno. The programme, dedicated to contemporary sacred music, will complement this symphony with a selection of Emmert's Psalm Songs and an iconic composition for strings by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The soloists of the evening will be Jarmila Balážová, Milan Paľa and Marek Paľa, and the concert will be conducted by Marián Lejava. more
This year's Blues Rock Fest will feature as many as five music evenings at the Metro Music Bar in Brno. Matěj Ptaszek and Jan St. Johnny Stehlík, who together will present their new CD dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival. Also featured will be Lord Bishop Rocks from the USA and Tom Jegr Gang, Julian Sas Band, Pump and Charlie The Bomber. The conclusion of the festival will belong to Hoochie Coochie Band, who will celebrate their quarter of a century on the music scene. more
Brno Radio will open an exhibition today to mark its 95th anniversary
Brno Radio will open an exhibition tomorrow to mark its 95th anniversary of regular broadcasting. The exhibition features the voices of Oldřich Nový, Karel Absolon and Jiří Mahen falling from a special sound shower. There will also be a radio receiver, which was made ninety years ago by Brno airport staff for their director. The exhibition starts today 6 September. more
The Icelandic band GusGus will start the autumn season at Fléda. It will be followed by a concert of the Ukrainian rapper Alyona Alyona. New albums will be presented in Brno by Hooverphonic, Jan Blomqvist Band, De Staat, Movits! and Kadebostany. The highlight of the autumn dramaturgy will be a performance by Vitalic with their new project Kompromat. more
Bacha na Mozarta! cycle will open the season with a world première
A concert cycle of Czech Ensemble Baroque entitled Bacha na Mozarta! [in Czech, this is a pun meaning both "Bach on Mozart!" and "Beware of Mozart!"] will open the season in Brno with the world première of Offertoria by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský. The first concert of the 8th season of this cycle will take place in the Church of St. Michael. more
Babylonfest: Púčik, Matrjoška or Německý pěvecký kroužek
Babylonfest is a parade of national and ethnic minorities living in the city of Brno. This year it enters its 12th season. Its programme will offer concerts, music-literary works and a pub quiz. For example, the folk ensemble Púčik, the Russian ensemble Matrjoška [Matryoshka], Německý pěvecký kroužek [The German Singing Club], the dance group Piroš rouža, the dance ensemble Prometheus and others will perform. 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
