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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
On Saturday, 24 August, the Korean radio orchestra KBS Symphony Orchestra with its musical director - Finnish conductor and violinist Pietari Inkinen - came to Brno's Špilberk Festival with an exclusively romantic repertoire. The invitation was also accepted by South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, a graduate of the prestigious Julliard School. more
For a quarter of a century now, the Brno Philharmonic has been organising the Špilberk Festival at the end of August in the courtyard of the castle of the same name. Four open-air musical evenings offer the audience a selection of concerts featuring classical, film and computer music, as well as often jazz and other genres. This makes it a diverse mix of performers and repertoires with an often pleasant, summery, laid-back ambience. This year's big and rapdily sold-out attraction was the Wednesday evening of 21 August, full of melodies from the James Bond films, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, headed by world-renowned conductor, composer and arranger Steven Mercurio. During the concert, the audience also got to enjoy singers Sara Milfajtová, Vendula Příhodová and David Kraus. more
As part of its European tour, the Taiwanese Taipei Philharmonic Chamber Choir (TPCC), under the direction of artistic director and choirmaster Dr. YuChung Johnny Ku, took the city up on its invitation and visited Brno. The concert was held on Monday, 13th August in the hall of the newly renovated Passage Hotel. more
The final concert of this year's season of the Brno Philharmonic was devoted to works by Antonín Dvořák and Jean Sibelius at the Janáček Theatre. On Thursday, 20 June, Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt, who had not appeared before a Brno audience since January last year, took the lead of the Philharmonic. In the first half of the programme, the orchestra was accompanied by violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky. more
In the spirit of the idea that Brno and folklore belong together, the Folklore Ensemble Happening of the Year took place on Thursday 6 June. The event was organised by the Brno UNESCO City of Music Office in cooperation with the Brno Dances and Sings association. The event thus became part of a long-term project that set out to map the amateur music scene in Brno, and not only folk music. Last year Brno City of Music reached out to choirs in a similar way, and in the future will host garage bands and more. This just goes to prove the diversity of Brno's music scene, not only as regards professional ensembles, but also enthusiastic amateurs for whom music is an inseparable part of their lives. more
