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Jan Fic released his debut album Město (“City”) in cooperation with the producer Martin E. Kyšperský in December of last year. The performance will include the band The Weathermakers together with guests who took part in making the recording. more
The Láska opravdivá male vocal choir is extending its ranks
The Láska opravdivá [Truthful Love] male vocal choir, which works in Brno at the Institute of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University under the leadership of Jan Špaček, announces an audition for singers. more
Brno City Theatre is Performing Sting’s Musical The Last Ship in its Czech Premiere
The musical The Last Ship is the work of the English singer and musician Sting. The authors are John Logan and Brian Yorkey. The Brno City Theatre are performing it under the direction of Stanislav Moša. The main roles will be taken by Lucie Bergerová or Radka Coufalová, Dušan Vitázek or Kristian Pekar, Zdeněk Junák or Ladislav Kolář, and many others. more
Nevermore & Kosmonaut Are Nominated for Anděl Award
The Brno groups Nevermore & Kosmonaut have been nominated for an Anděl (Angel) Award in the folk category. Their album Bleděmodré město (Pale Blue City) is inspired by Brno. The prize-giving ceremony will be broadcast live by the Czech TV channel ČT1 at the beginning of March this year. more
Music Workshops for Mothers with Children
Part of the educational programme of the Brno Philharmonic is a cycle of workshops for mothers with children. These begin at the end of February and have been put together in cooperation with the Jiří Mahen Library. They are intended for children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years. more
The Prague Cello Quartet Heads for Brno
The ensemble of four young cellists, the Prague Cello Quartet, is preparing a concert in Brno’s Sono Centre. The concert will be taking place as part of their HAPPY Tour, presenting their new album HAPPY. more
Today the Brno Philharmonic Embarks on a Tour of Japan
Today, 6 February 2019, the Brno Philharmonic is setting off on a tour of Japan. They will spend 18 days in Japan, with the orchestra giving a total of eleven concerts in ten concert halls in nine cities. The tour will involve eighty-three musicians, the conductor and two soloists. Works by B. Smetana, A. Dvořák, P. I. Tchaikovsky and L. van Beethoven will be performed in the concerts. This is the orchestra’s tenth tour in Asia. more
The Janáček Opera Company is Seeking New Singers
The Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno is holding auditions for altos and tenors. The auditions will take place in March. more
Petr Řezníček Has Died
On Monday, in his 81st year, Petr Řezníček died. He was a musical director and head of the artistic realisation of music broadcasting at Czech Radio Brno. more
News: Opera Singer Marie Steinerová has Passed Away
Opera singer Marie Steinerová was a solo singer for the then State Theatre and now National Theatre Brno in the years 1948-1981. In 2004, she was awarded the Thálie prize for lifelong achievement in the field of opera. Today, the National Theatre Brno informed us of the passing of the eminent singer of Janáček’s works. 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
