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For the sixth time this year, the streets of Brno will come alive with the energy of the country’s largest festival of Brazilian culture. Brasil Fest Brno 2025 will take place in the middle of the summer holidays and it is preparing a number of new attractions for this year: stands overlooking the carnival parade, workshops with Brazilian stars, and a children's parade. more
Bohemia JazzFest 2025: Peter Lipa Band, Ondřej Štveráček Quartet and others
Bohemia JazzFest will visit Brno at the start of next week. Moravské náměstí will again be hosting two evenings of jazz music this year. Peter Lipa Band, Ondřej Štveráček Quartet and The Next Movement are among those who will perform. Both festival days are free to attend. more
Cultural newsletter from the Department of Culture of BCH for July 2025
The Brno Culture Newsletter presents an overview of upcoming events and opportunities concerning theatres, clubs and other cultural events in Brno. more
Actor and director Petr Gazdík celebrates his fiftieth birthday
Petr Gazdík, a long-time member of the Brno City Theatre, actor, director, translator and artistic director of the musical ensemble, celebrated his fiftieth birthday yesterday, 6 July 2025. His birthday concert entitled GAZĎA & Friends will take place in early September at the MdB Music Stage. more
Groove Brno 2025: For the first time ever in the open air on the beach of the Brno Reservoir
One of the key musical moments of this summer will be the open-air festival Groove Brno. It will take place in the picturesque surroundings of Kozí horka near the Brno Reservoir, which will come alive with groove, funk, soul and fusion. Candy Dulfer, Jaga Jazzist, Dirty Loops and others will perform. more
Moravian Autumn celebrates the 100th anniversary of Sir Charles Mackerras. Some top British orchestras will be coming to Brno
The Moravian Autumn International Music Festival will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras. The British orchestras he conducted will be visiting Brno. At the opening concert, Mackerras's daughter Catherine will present an award bearing her father's name to an artist under 40 who has made a contribution to the interpretation of Czech music, especially that of Leoš Janáček. more
Cotatcha Orchestra teams up with dancers to weave through the audience
Cotatcha Orchestra & dance feat. Martin Dvořák and ProART Company - a combination of original music and movement in one space around the audience. The new Cotatcha Orchestra programme will be presented as an open air performance in the courtyard of the Goose on a String Theatre. more
The Brno Music Marathon festival will see the city rocking from the reservoir all the way to the water tanks. It starts on Thursday
Ten years of music, dozens of performances by musicians from twelve countries and hundreds of stories will play out throughout Brno in just one week. Brno Music Marathon celebrates its tenth anniversary year and will turn the city into a vibrant space packed with music that rings out in the streets, squares, courtyards and some more unexpected places - from the surface of the reservoir to the historical water tanks, and from Villa Tugendhat to the tramp cabin of artist Kateřina Šedá right on Náměstí Svobody. more
Brasil Fest Brno: A carnival of colours, music and dance
Brno will be dancing to the sound of samba and other Brazilian rhythms next week. Brasil Fest Brno, the largest festival of Brazilian culture in Central Europe, will run for four days. Already on Friday, fans of Brazilian culture can look forward to the legendary band Nação Zumbi at the První patro club. more
The Folk Holidays festival is approaching. It promises the best of contemporary world music
At the end of July, the château park in Náměšt' nad Oslavou will host the 39th annual Folk Holidays festival - a showcase of the best of contemporary world music. The motto of the dramaturgy for this year's festival is Purity. Performers will include pianist Omar Sosa, kora player Seckou Keita, folk singer Sam Lee and others. 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
