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The spring part of the festival in the Stará Pekárna club will begin this evening with the concert of English singer Elles Bailey, accompanied by the Czech band The Bladderstones. The festival promises 27 jazz and blues concerts with an international representation. We will get to see for example the Mike Ross Blues Band, Marek Kotača Trio, Tom Smith Quartet and the Vilém Spilka Quartet. more
Brno Organist Petr Kolař will Receive the Jan Václav Stamic Prize
The important organist, teacher and church musician Petr Kolář will receive the Jan Václav Stamic prize for 2018. The ceremonial awarding of the prize will take place at St. Peter and Paul’s cathedral in Brno. more
The international jazz festival JazzFestBrno published its complete programme today. It promises fifteen musical evenings, where we will get to hear great names including the bassist Stanley Clarke, trumpet player Theo Croker, Avishai Cohen and Peter Evans, guitarist Julian Lage and South African singer Melanie Scholtz. This year, the festival will pay homage to the legends of the Czech Contraband stage Milan Svoboda and Luboš Andršt, whose Blues Band will be joined by the singer Peter Lipa. The list will also include big names of contemporary Czech jazz such as bassist Jaromír Honzák, trumpet player Štěpánka Balcarová and Michal Nejtek. more
The Brno Contemporary Orchestra will Present a Cooperative Project with Cirkus LeGrando
The Brno musical ensemble Brno Contemporary Orchestra will present the works of Erwin Schulhoff and Mauricio Kagel. Pavel Šnajdr will conduct the performance under the direction of Matěj Sýkora. more
Dennis Russell Davies will Perform as a Pianist for the First Time in Brno
The principal conductor of Brno Philharmonic Dennis Russell Davies is recognised around the world both as a conductor and as a pianist. And it will be in the latter role that he will perform to a Brno audience for the first time on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The concert on Wednesday will be broadcast live by Czech Radio Vltava and taken up by radio stations in the Euroradio network (EBU). It will include Bagatelles by Antonín Dvořák, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Minor and the Symphony in D Major by Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek. more
Cabaret at the Divadlo na Orlí
The students of musical acting at JAMU will be introducing the musical Cabaret in two premieres. The production, directed by Martin Vokoun has two alternating performers of the main female role, Sally Bowles. more
Songs of Christmas. The new album by Lilium Liste
The album of Moravian and Silesian carols under the name Písně vánočního času (“Songs of Christmas-time”) was recorded by the group Lilium Liste. When choosing the songs, they focused on lesser known carols. The recording is an authentic interpretation of the musical legacy of the folk tradition without extensive arrangements. more
Festival of percussion instruments: workshops, concerts and a sales show
The international festival that gives space for a new generation of percussionists from both Czech and foreign conservatories and academies is entering its fifth year. During these three days, the best students of chosen classes will be performing. The programme is completed by concerts, workshops of foreign lecturers and a sales show of percussion instruments. The big events this year are the percussion workshops. more
Double christening of album Chce to hit! by band Poletíme?
The band Poletíme? (“Will we fly?”) has published its new album Chce to hit!(“It needs a hit!”), which it will be presenting as part of the concert series Chce to Tour (“It needs a Tour!”). The Brno christening of the album will take place twice in the Fléda club. more
The project Moravské hlasy – východní Morava is looking for support
Jiří Plocek’s project follows up on the existing album Moravské hlasy - jižní Morava (“Moravian voices – South Moravia”), which was released at the end of 2017. The campaign for the support of the next CD will be taking place up to the end of 2018. 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
