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The Brno Music Marathon 2020 presents the first part of its programme
The multi-genre Brno Music Marathon festival is about to enter its fourth season. In August, Brno will have four days full of music that will sound in the city squares, in the festival rooms of Kateřina Šedá, and traditionally in the Alfa pasáž shopping mall. The genre representation in the programme ranges from groove, dance and Romani music through opera, folklore, world music, classics and musicals. Performers will include Pavel Fischer & Jakub Jedlinský, VUS Ondráš with a project by Jiří Slavík, the Indigo Quartet, Monika Načeva, the Epoque Quartet and many others. more
A series of six concerts will take place in the compound of the former Řečkovice brewery. One of them will be an evening called Pocta Petru Skoumalovi [Tribute to Petr Skoumal], featuring Jaroslav Olin Nejezchleba and Malý Bobr. more
The Jazz Courtyard Will Once Again Make the Old Town Hall Resound with Music
After a long pause, jazz music also comes to the fore. The Jazz Courtyard will take place again this year, promising a series of concerts jointly initiated by the jazz departments of Prague’s HAMU and Brno’s JAMU musical academies. The students' ensembles of both schools, their own long-term projects of selected students and, in the case of Brno, also teachers will present themselves in the Czech and Moravian metropolises. more
Fête de la Musique will be celebrated today with an online concert from all over the world
The world celebration of music, known as Fête de la Musique, will be held on this particular day of 21 June. The current situation does not allow for mass celebrations in the form of concerts, happenings and performances in the streets of UNESCO Music Cities. That is why this year's celebrations of music will take place in the form of an online concert. Today's virtual music festival, which starts at 12:00, is jointly held by more than 20 cities from all around the world. You can watch the concert on the Facebook page UNESCO Cities of Music and on YouTube. more
Latest: Jakub Hrůša and Ivo Kahánek won the Anděl Award for 2019
Ivo Kahánek, Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony won the Anděl Award for the best album in the classical music category. The album entitled Dvořák & Martinů: Piano Concertos also won the BBC Music Magazine award this year. more
The two-day Ghettofest festival is entering its ninth season. Its fundamental idea is to present the "Brno Bronx" as an open and friendly place for at least two days. The motto of this season is An Affair of the Heart, thematically following on from the Masopust (Carnival) festivity, which took place in February. Due to sanitary precautions, the programme will be divided between several smaller separate stages this time. The artists featured will be David Kraus & Gipsy Brothers, Tafrob, Maniak or Prago Union. The festival will also feature a programme for children. more
The Znojmo Music Festival Will Take Place in Full
Despite coronavirus measures, the 16th Znojmo Music Festival will take place unchanged and in full. During July, more than 25 music events will take place in Znojmo and its surroundings. The central theme is the blending of theatre and music. The subheading is "Music in theatre, theatre in music". more
The festival for the Jewish quarter of Boskovice will take place in a more intimate version with a limited number of visitors this year. The organisers invite you to a three-day festival to take place this August. The programme promises representation of the Czech-German jazz scene, blues, theatre performances, site-specific projects, readings and lectures. more
The Brno Philharmonic is filling the position of Executive Editor
The management of the Brno Philharmonic has announced a selection procedure for the position of Executive Editor, who will be supposed to start work from 1 November 2020. more
Ibérica Festival: Spanish artists will visit Brno as late as August
The Ibérica Festival of Ibero-American Cultures is entering its 17th season on new dates. Due to the current pandemic situation, it will not take place until August. In addition to Brno and Prague, the festival will also visit the castles in Lysice and Čechy pod Kosířem. The talented flamenco dancer Mónica Iglesias will be featured this year. The Brno part of the festival will also host the guitar player Pavel Steidl. 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
