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Latest: Jana Šrejma Kačírková wins a Thalia Award
Jana Šrejma Kačírková, a soloist of the Janáček Opera, was given a Thalia Award 2020 this evening. more
The JazzFestBrno festival has announced the first names of performers for the coming anniversary year. The 20th season of this international festival will start in March and its programme so far boasts names such as Chick Corea, Vicente Amigo, Cécile McLorin Salvant and the GoGo Penguin trio. more
Cultural Newsletter of the Department of Culture of the Brno City Municipality
The Brno Cultural Newsletter provides an overview of events and changes that concern theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno in the coming period. more
The Czech Ensemble Baroque Quintet is preparing an ANTI-VIR-tual concert
One of the scheduled November concerts of the Czech Ensemble Baroque has only 5 performers, which is the maximum number in which singing can be done even in these times. Members of the Czech Ensemble Baroque's vocal quintet were thus able to meet and rehearse a concert. You can watch it on YouTube. more
NdB director Martin Glaser has been elected to lead the prestigious Opera Europa organisation
At the November online conference entitled "Survival of the Fittest", Martin Glaser – manager of the National Theatre Brno – was elected to the Opera Europa’s management. more
Angels' Saturday: An Advent online concert by Martina Komínková
The Brno-based flautist and music teacher Martina Komínková is preparing the streaming of her solo concert, which will also feature her original work from the new CD Resonance. more
A concert from the "Barbara Maria Willi presents…" series will take place online. Josef Špaček will appear as a guest artist
The Brno – City of Music portal in cooperation with the "Barbara Maria Willi presents ..." cycle will offer you the livestreaming of a concert from the Convent of the Merciful Brethren. Violin virtuoso and one of today’s most sought-after Czech artists, Josef Špaček, will appear as a guest performer. Together with Barbara Maria Willi, they will perform compositions by Bach, Biber and Corelli. more
Brno as a European centre of world music, headed by Milan Tesař
After almost thirty years, Brno has replaced the German capital Berlin as the main centre of the European panel of radio music publicists World Music Charts Europe (WMCE). From Berlin public radio, where the founder of this platform, Johannes Theurer, worked until 30 November 2020, the centre of WMCE's activities is moving to the Brno headquarters of Radio Proglas. Milan Tesař, one of its two current Czech members and head of the music section of Proglas, became the new secretary of the panel starting from 1 December. more
Přání. New single by Nebeztebe
The single Přání (Wish) by the Brno-based Nebeztebe band presents their upcoming album Zásobování duše (Supply of the Soul). more
Brno's Vilém Spilka Quartet is preparing a concert at the renowned jazz club Cantina Bentivoglio in the Italian city of Bologna. The concert will take place thanks to the cooperation of the "UNESCO Creative Cities of Music", among which Brno and Bologna belong. Both cities expressed their support for the event. 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
