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The Brno Philharmonic is heading to Carnegie Hall. They will open their American tour with a Glass Symphony
The Brno Philharmonic is preparing for an American tour. It will give the New York premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12 “Lodger” at Carnegie Hall with the composer in attendance. The Brno Philharmonic will play seven concerts in seven venues overseas in February. more
Brno - UNESCO City of Music presents the Year of Choirs
The Brno - UNESCO City of Music Office is launching a multi-year project that aims to map Brno’s amateur music scene. This year will be the Year of Choirs. The biggest event is being prepared for the European Music Day. Several dozen Brno choirs will perform on the stage at the Cabbage (Zelný) Market as part of a large-scale happening. more
The Brno Marathon of Music 2023 festival presented the first part of its programme today. In August, Omar Sosa as the festival’s resident pianist, the band Dubioza Kolektiv, and the Estonian duo Puuluup will perform in Brno. more
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno will celebrate Petr Fiala’s 80th birthday with a concert
Petr Fiala, founder, choirmaster, and director of the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, will celebrate his jubilee. Fiala’s Stabat Mater will also be performed during the festive concert, which will take place in the Besední dům. The concert will be conducted by conductor Robert Kružík. more
Cultural newsletter of the MMB Department of Culture for March 2023
The Brno cultural newsletter brings you an overview of events and opportunities in the coming period concerning theatres, clubs, festivals, and cultural events in Brno. more
Jiří Slavík released a new album Nostalgia. Today he will present it in Brno
Anděl Award winner and acclaimed double bassist Jiří Slavík introduces a new international trio. Paul Clarvis, the percussionist of the legendary Abbey Road studio, will be on drums, and Clarvis’ long-time collaborator, the leading English pianist Liam Noble, will be the third. The Noble-Slavík-Clarvis trio released the album Nostalgia on the Bivak Records label of the JazzFestBrno festival, which they will present today at the Cabaret des Péchés club in Brno. more
The 30th Easter Festival of Sacred Music is subtitled Transformation
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music enters its thirtieth year and is subtitled Transformation (Přetváření). It will open with a new setting of the once famous Stabat Mater by Brno Cathedral organist František Musil, in which soloists, the Brno Philharmonic and five choirs under the direction of Tomáš Krejčí will join forces. more
NdB will perform the opera Falstaff directed by Ondřej Havelka
Ondřej Havelka returns to the Brno opera stage after a long break and with him comes the comedy opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi. Falstaff returns to the Janáček Opera repertoire after fifty years. The soloists will be Spanish baritone Luis Cansina, Italian baritone Damiano Salerno, Pavla Vykopalová, Václava Krejčí Housková, Markéta Cukrová, Jana Hrochová and others. more
Easter concerts at the MdB: Iva Bittová, Markéta Cukrová, and Vilém Veverka will perform
Easter concerts will take place at the Brno Municipal Theatre on Friday and Saturday during the Easter weekend. This year’s guests include Iva Bittová, Ondřej Vaníček, Markéta Cukrová, Vilém Veverka, and the Ars Brunensis choir with the Brno Municipal Theatre Orchestra under the direction of choirmaster and chief conductor Dan Kalousek. more
The Brno National Theatre has announced the titles for the 2023/2024 season
The Brno National Theatre has presented the upcoming premieres for the 2023/2024 season. Among the opera productions on the programme next season will be, for example, The Jacobin or Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. Ballet will be represented by Coco Chanel, choreographed by Mario Radačovský, and The Vigil, a follow-up to the award-winning 4 Elements. The upcoming season will be dedicated to the Year of Czech Music 2024, which commemorates the anniversary of composers ending with a four and generally focuses on Czech music. 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
