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The Czech-New Zealand group Metronome Blues is bringing out their third album. Vicious Circles is being issued under the independent label Happy Mutant. The group is christening it today in the Mersey club. more
The Jazz Spring 2018 Festival promises 25 jazz concerts in the Stará Pekárna club. There will be performances from David Dorůžka & the Luboš Soukup Quartet, the Vince Agwada Blues Band, the Nigel Price Trio, The Flash! and many more. more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performed in Brno 250 Years Ago
Today is the anniversary of the Brno concert by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Maria Anna. The concert took place in the premises of what is now the Reduta Theatre. more
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno is looking for a new Choir Master
The Director of the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno invites for applications for the post of the Choir Master. more
The Brno B-SIDE BAND of bandleader Josef Buchta has a new video for the composition Meeting Point, which is part of the album with the same name. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: An Advent Concert for Euroradio Christmas Music Day
Ensemble Opera Diversa has prepared an advent programme of contemporary religious music for Euroradio Christmas Music Day. There will be performances of the works O antifony for baritone and strings and the Magnificat for choir and strings by their court composer Ondřej Kyas and the Sonata da Chiesa by Peter Graham. The concert will be conducted by Gabriela Tardonová, with the baritone Roman Hoza, the Ensemble Opera Diversa orchestra and the Ensemble Versus choir performing. more
Magdalena Kožená invites you to a Concentus Moraviae festival full of music and humour
Magdalena Kožená, patroness of the Concentus Moraviae festival, today will take the stage of Brno’s Boby Centre with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers. This benefit concert for the festival will jointly promote the songs of Cole Porter and at the same time invite us to the next year. The event will also include the christening of the Cole Porter CD with songs which will be performed by Kožená and Havelka’s Melody Makers in a premiere as part of this year’s Concentus Moraviae festival. more
The album Moravské hlasy (Moravian Voices) captures the phenomenon of the South Moravian art of singing
A CD named Moravské hlasy has just been released by Jiří Plocek. The CD introduces a unique phenomenon of the South Moravian art of singing through a set of songs performed by various singers and choirs from different places in South Moravia. more
The Soul-funk group Top Dream Company has released their fourth album, and will christen it in Brno. more
News: Janáček Brno Festival wins award
The current conception and realisation of the Janáček Brno festival has won the award of Czech Opera Professionals. The committee of the Musical Theatre Association, which organises the festival Opera, gave the Janáček festival the award for significant achievement in the field of musical theatre. The award was accepted by the director of the National Theatre Brno Martin Glaser and the Artistic Director of the Janáček Opera NdB Jiří Heřman. The award of the Opera festival director was won by Ensemble Opera Diversa for their staging of the opera by Ondřej Kyas and Pavel Drábek Čaroděj a jeho sluha. 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
