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Singer and musician Lenka Dusilová will perform live for the first time ever with the big band Cotatcha Orchestra. Their joint concert will take place at the Husa na provázku Theater. The nine-time winner of the Anděl Award and the sixteen-member ensemble led by trumpeter Jiří Kotača will present both original novelties written for their joint project and some compositions from their award-winning album Bigbandová elektronika. more
Andreas Scholl conducts Bach cantatas in Brno Cathedral today
For the first time in the Czech Republic, the world-famous countertenor Andreas Scholl will perform as a conductor. The acclaimed expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach will perform two Bach cantatas with the Czech Ensemble Baroque in Brno Cathedral this evening, opening the eleventh season of the “Bacha na Mozarta!” series. more
The ONDRÁŠ Military Art Ensemble is looking for a violist
VUS Ondráš is expanding its professional music ensemble to include new viola players. This is a full-time position. more
The Concentus Musicus Wien Orchestra will open this year’s Concentus Moraviae Festival
The world-renowned orchestra will open the 28th edition of the Concentus Moraviae International Music Festival in Kroměříž, then head to Brno. The concerts will be led by conductor Tomáš Netopil. more
In a week, the Brno National Theatre will premiere the operetta “The Merry Widow”
Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” is one of the most famous operettas in the world and will replace Oskar Nedbal’s “Polish Blood”, which represented this genre in Brno for several seasons. Choreographer Martin Pacek will appear as a director for the first time at the Brno National Theatre. Director Magdalena Švecová, conductor Jakub Klecker, and designers Zuzana Přidalová and David Janošek participated in the creation of the operetta production together with Pacek. more
The Brno National Theatre announces auditions for the opera orchestra in the 1st and 2nd violin groups
Both auditions for the opera orchestra for the position of tutti in the 1st and 2nd violin groups for male and female players will take place in February 2023. more
The programme of the 22nd JazzFestBrno is now complete. In addition to the previously announced personalities, more important names of the contemporary jazz scene have been added. These include, among others, singer Kurt Elling, drummer Simon Phillips, saxophonist Donny McCaslin, pianist Emmet Cohen, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Melissa Aldana, and the newly formed English-Czech trio Noble-Slavík-Clarvis to visit Brno. Also performing will be the Poogie Bell – Juraj Griglak Band, drummer Udi Shlomo, and bassist and vocalist Chris Morrissey. These artists join previously announced musicians Diana Krall, Kronos Quartet, Dave Holland, John Scofield, and Tigran Hamasyan. This year’s edition of the Brno JazzFest will offer 16 concerts during the main part of the festival over 13 nights. more
Conductor Caspar Richter passed away
German conductor Caspar Richter died on Thursday 2 February 2023 at the age of 78. During his career he worked closely with the Brno City Theatre and was at the beginning of its Music Stage. He was also a guest conductor at the Brno Philharmonic. more
Jiří Plocek will present his new book “Song as a Symbol”
Jiří Plocek will be presenting his new book Píseň jako simbol (Song as a Symbol – In the Footsteps of a Phenomenon of Human Culture), published last December by Galén, at the Academia bookstore in Brno. more
Update: the Brno Philharmonic celebrated success at Carnegie Hall
Yesterday the Brno Philharmonic played the most important concert in its modern history. In New York’s Carnegie Hall it presented an unusual programme combining Czech and American music: Martinů, Janáček, and Glass. Symphony No. 12 “Lodger” became the event of the evening, because it was performed in the New York premiere, and in the personal presence of the composer Philip Glass. 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
