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Fléda Music Club celebrates twenty years
The Fléda Club celebrates twenty years of its existence this year. For this festive season, subtitled FXX, it brings a number of new additions as well as refurbished premises. As the organizer, it will present the new MAUSHAUS festival at the Brno Exhibition Centre for the first time. more
Evgeni Irshai will celebrate his landmark birthday together with Milan Paľa
Evgeni Irshai is one of the most important contemporary Slovak composers. This year he celebrates his 70th. On this occasion, his joint concert with Milan Paľa will take place in the hall of the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy. The concert will feature works by the personality. more
The Cotatcha Orchestra, a big band from Brno, is preparing another concert in a series presenting the work and anniversaries of famous jazzmen. The Croatian singer Daniel Caccia will perform with them as a guest this time. Traditional as well as new arrangements will feature works by trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, who was born 120 years ago, singer Jon Hendricks, who would have turned 100 this year, and pianist Stan Kenton, ten years older than Hendricks. more
Berlin-based producer Boys Noize and the Fléda Club’s anniversary celebrations
German DJ and producer Boys Noize will present his new album +/- in Brno. This prominent personality of the electronic scene will perform at the Fléda Club as part of the celebration of the club’s 20th anniversary. The work of this musician, innovative in terms of genre, is on the border of techno, house and electro-pop. more
Janáček Opera Brno to perform The Greek Passion
The great choral opera – The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinů – returns to the stage of the Janáček Theatre. Members of Český akademický sbor (Czech Academic Choir) and Dětský sbor Brno (Brno Children’s Choir) will join the ranks of the Brno National Theratre´s Janáček Opera choir. The musical production is the work of conductor Robert Kružík. Directed by Jiří Heřman, for whom The Greek Passion is the third production of Martinů’s work, after The Miracles of Mary and The Epic of Gilgamesh, the piece will feature, in the main roles, soloists of the Brno National Theratre´s Janáček Opera as well as its regular guests Peter Berger (Manolios), Pavla Vykopalová (Katarina), Jan Šťáva (Grigoris), David Szendiuch (Fotis), Ondřej Koplík (Yannakos) and others. more
The New Music Encounters Plus festival starts today. The festival runs until December
Thirteen concerts will take place at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno and the Divadlo na Orlí (Orlí Street Theatre) as part of the 24th annual festival, which begins today. YouTube streaming will also be available. more
National Theatre Brno: Janáček Opera announces auditions for the opera choir
Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno is looking for new singers for the opera’s choir – the tenor voice group. The audition is announced for the end of November. more
The Brno Philharmonic presents one of the highlights of the season: Schnittke’s Faust Cantata and Iva Bittová
Edvard Elgar’s The Black Knight and Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata “Seid nüchtern und wachet” – the programme to be performed over two evenings at the Janáček Theatre is described as one of the highlights of the 66th philharmonic season. Two dramas: a horror story and a battle for the human soul. And two pieces of work with extensive casting, with nearly two hundred performers on stage. The Mephistopheles part will again be taken by Iva Bittová. The concert is conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. more
The 21st annual jazz festival is characterized by big bands and connecting world-renowned musicians with Czech ones. Among the performers will be Maria Schneider’s Orchestra, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra in conjunction with Dan Bárta, pianist Brad Mehldau in a Bach-based programme with the Brno Philharmonic, double bass player Christian McBride’s quintet and guitarist Lionel Loueke, both solo and in a project with his Czech musical guests. more
The Brno Philharmonic is hiring for the position of Marketing Manager
Interested candidates can apply for the post of Marketing Manager until Sunday 14 November 2021. The anticipated start date for this position is January next year. 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
