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Once Concert, Two Conductors
A pair of young conductors of the Faculty of Music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts will perform at a joint orchestral concert in Besední dům. Jiří Najvar and Jiří Habart, students of conducting, will be in charge of almost sixty players from the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra. Under their leadership, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Francis Poulenc and Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek will be heard. more
The international festival of noise, experimental music and performance follows the noise festivals of recent years that took place in the now closed Boro club and in the Paradox club. The Dutch band FCKN BSTRDS, Company Fuck from Australia and the noise propagator Dawid Kowalski, who appears under the stage name Purgist, will perform as part of this year’s festival. more
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music: Singer Pur, Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Brno Filharmonic and Dennis Russell Davies
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music enters its 27th year with the topic Garden and Vineyard. As part of the festival, we will get to see the German groups Singer Pur and the Ensemble Musikfabrik, followed by Motus Harmonicus, Cappella Mariana, Vox Iuvenalis, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and the Brno Philharmonic under new upcoming principal conductor Dennis Russell Davies. more
Inevitable Rods: An album by PQ, the jazz quartet of Pavel Zlámal
Pavel Zlámal’s Jazz quartet PQ has released its debut album called Tyče nevyhnutelné. All eight songs are available in digital versions on music apps such as Spotify, iTunes and Deezer. more
Composer and conductor Evžen Zámečník has died
Evžen Zámečník has died at the age of 79. During his musical career he was a composer, violinist and conductor. more
The first stage of the multi-genre Brno Music Marathon festival has announced its programme. Tickets are already on sale. Legends of the rock scene and absolute newcomers will perform as part of UrbanRock. The second week of August will offer us bands such as Enter Shikari, Dog Eat Dog, Hentai Corporation, The Adicts and many others. more
Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra: Young and Even Younger Together with Jiří Vodička
At the beginning of March in Brno a young orchestra will perform with even younger soloists. The third year of the concert with the title “Young and Even Younger” will take place this year in the Hall of the Merciful Brethren. Aside from two younger soloists, also appearing with the orchestra will be the leader of the Czech Philharmonic Jiří Vodička, and the director of the Czech Philharmonic David Mareček, unusually in the role of conductor. more
This year the theme of the international theatre festival is “Freedom?!” Over five days artists from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the USA will be appearing. more
News: JazzFestBrno opens the spring part of the festival with a film premiere
This year for the first time in the history of the festival the spring part will present a film production. There will be the Czech premiere of the documentary about one of the biggest personalities in Czech and world jazz with the title Miroslav Vitouš – jazzová legenda (Miroslav Vitouš – Jazz Legend). During the festival Miroslav Vitouš will also be appearing alongside Emil Viklický. The main part of the festival will open with a concert from the saxophonist Donny McCaslin, who among other things played on the last album by David Bowie. more
The National Theatre Brno is Filling Positions in the Opera Orchestra
The management of the National Theatre Brno is holding auditions for the opera orchestra for the positions of 2nd trombone with responsibility for the 3rd trombone, and for the position of 3rd trombone and for the position of orchestra handler. more
The cycle of classical music concerts directed by its founder, Barbara Maria Willi, has been an integral part of cultural events in the Moravian capital for twenty-three years. The audience in Brno has already been introduced to a number of outstanding personalities and ensembles with whom Barbara Maria Willi regularly cooperates. This year's opening concert, traditionally held on Wednesday, 11 February, in the hall of the Convent of the Merciful Brothers with a subtitle Music in Motion offered a combination of the art of the fortepiano with flute played by Sofia Mavrogenidou and accompanied by young dancers Klementýna Anna Špičková and Adam Mišo, choreographed by David Strnad. more
The final concert of this year’s instalment of the Barbara Maria Willi Presents series offered a unique project that on 4 December brought together two ensembles in the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy: Cappella Pratensis and Ramillete de Tonos. They showed the audience the many different ways in which one can work with the polyphonic repertoire of the 15th and 16th centuries. The programme intertwined sacred and secular music, and purely vocal, vocal-instrumental and purely instrumental pieces. more
The rediscovery and digitisation of the Brno polyphonic manuscripts BAM 1 and BAM 2 has opened a new chapter in the study and performance of Renaissance music. At the crossroads of historical research, modern technology, and artistic interpretation stands Past Forward, a cross-border project connecting institutions from the Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic. At its artistic core are two musicians whose approaches complement each other: Tim Braithwaite, artistic director of Cappella Pratensis, and Kateřina Maňáková, lutenist, teacher of early plucked instruments at Janáček Academy of Performing Arts and guarantor of the entire initiative. In this conversation, they discuss working with previously overlooked sources, the challenges of historically informed performance, the promises of international collaboration, and their vision for the future of early-music interpretation. more
The concert by Filharmonie Brno under Dennis Russell Davies on Thursday 6 November in Besední dům offered a fascinating programme combining the work of two contemporary composers from the former Soviet Union. The performers included Armenian baritone Aksel Daveyan, violist Julian Veverica, percussionist Lukáš Krejčí, and the Austrian Hard-Chor Linz choir under choirmaster Alexander Koller. more
Brno-born pianist and Director General of the Czech Philharmonic, David Mareček, is appearing together with cellist Václav Petr on a concert tour in South Korea. During the first week of November, the duo is presenting Czech repertoire on prestigious stages, including the Seogwipo Arts Center, Yongin Poeun Art Hall and Daegu Concert House. more
