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The Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno will open the new season with a concert at the Besední dům
The Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno opens its 33rd concert season and the 18th year of the Subscription Concert Series. The first subscription concert of this season will take place on Sunday at the Besední dům in Brno. The concert programme includes Symphony in G minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Missa solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven. more
The Moravian Autumn will open with a light piano
The International Music Festival Moravian Autumn begins next Sunday and will open with Heinrich's work entitled Singing the Spirit of the Wild Forest or Glimpses of Yankee Doodle. Anthony Philip Heinrich's "American Beethoven" will be followed by works from Beethoven, Pärt and Scriabin - his Prometheus for light piano. Pianist Polina Osetinskaja will take the solo part, the Brno Philharmonic will be accompanied by the Slovak Philharmonic Choir with the evening being led by chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies. more
An International Musicology Colloquium on the Czechoslovak Interwar Opera Avant-Garde will take place in Brno
The 57th International Musicology Colloquium will take place in Brno, this year under the title New Paths in Opera. It is organised by the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University (FFMU) together with the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera through the Musica non grata project. World renowned figures from the ranks of musicologists, conductors, opera directors, dramaturges and representatives of music producers will discuss avant-garde musical theatre of the first half of the 20th century with an emphasis on "Entartete Musik". The conference will be streamed live on Musica non grata and FFMU platforms. The project includes the opening concert of the Brno Contemporary Orchestra season. more
The ReConnect conference is part of the Batch club festival. A diverse range of music professionals will gather in Brno for three days to discuss key topics and issues in the music industry. more
The Thalia Award makes its way to Brno. It was awarded to Jaroslav Březina
Jaroslav Březina received the Thalia Award for his role as Herod in the opera Salome. more
The Jacobin will launch a season dedicated to Czech music
The next two seasons of the Janáček Opera at the National Theatre Brno will be in the spirit of the Year of Czech Music 2024. This year's first premiere will therefore belong to the Czech opera The Jacobin by Antonín Dvořák. Thanks to the OperaVision project, the opera production directed by Martin Glaser will reach audiences all over the world. Czech Television will record the performance for the CT ART channel. more
Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and Milan Paľa to close the Moravian Autumn festival
The 52nd Moravian Autumn festival is now coming to an end. On Sunday, it will close at the Janáček Theatre with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century. The evening’s soloist Milan Paľa will perform his Viola Concerto and, in the second half, Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 2. more
October 2023 Culture Newsletter from the BCH Department of Culture
The Brno Culture Newsletter brings you an overview of what is happening in theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno. more
Guitarist Milan Bátor to launch an album with Beatles songs in Brno
The theme of guitarist Milan Bátor’s second album is the legendary The Beatles in instrumental arrangements for solo guitar, written by Italian guitarist Mario Gangi. The album, entitled I Beatles, will be launched in the Löw-Beer Villa in Brno. more
Members of one of the most influential bands in rock history, the British King Crimson, will present The Crimson Marathon project, created exclusively for the Czech festival Prague Music Performance, at Brno’s Sono Centre. The aim of the project, created with the consent of the group’s founder Robert Fripp, is to present the individual members of King Crimson through their own projects and through the work of the group itself. 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
