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The Acoustics of the Concert Hall in Brno will be taken care of by Nagata
Nagata Acoustics America, Konior Studio and Architekti Hrůša & spol., Atelier Brno. This team looks like it will be the supplier of project documentation for a building permit and project documentation for the above-ground parts of the Janáček Cultural Centre. This is a new concert hall that will be a base for the Brno Philharmonic. The expert commission today recommended the contracting authorities that they choose this team. more
Meditation – to the Victims of the Tsunami 11/3 will be heard in Besední Dům today and tomorrow
The Czech premiere of the composition Meditation – to the Victims of the Tsunami 11/3 by Toshio Hosokawa will take place today and tomorrow in Besední Dům. The work is a reaction to the results of a natural catastrophe which struck the north-east coast of Japan in 2011. The Brno Philharmonic and Vilém Veverka will perform under the leadership of Alexander Liebreich. more
Jazz Evening: The Cotatcha Orchestra and Vincenc Kummer
The big band Cotatcha Orchestra is giving a concert devoted to the life and works of the legendary jazz double bass player Vincenc Kummer. The programme will be introduced by Jan Dalecký. more
News: Petr Oslzlý to be the new rector of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts
The academic senate elected the dramaturge, scriptwriter, actor and teacher Petr Oslzlý to be the new head of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He was competing for the post of rector with Barbara Maria Willi. more
The Lučina folk ensemble celebrates its 45th birthday
The folk ensemble Lučina Brno is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a display of singing and dancing groups with musical accompaniment from the ensemble CM Lučina. The festive evening will end with a gathering around the cimbalom. more
News: Tomorrow evening Brno will resound to the Symphony of Sirens
Tomorrow sirens will start to sound in Brno, there will be twenty-five cannon shots, the engines of starting aircraft will be heard and the sirens of ambulances and fire engines will go off. All these sounds of the city are part of the Symphony of Sirens, the loudest composition in the history of mankind and one of the highpoints of the Moravian Autumn festival. more
The National Theatre Brno presents the opera L'elisir d'amore
The opera by Gaetano Donizetti is being presented by the National Theatre Brno in the directorial conception of Magdalena Švecová. The musical arrangement of Ondrej Olos accompanies the singers: Ondřej Koplík, José Manuel, Kateřina Kněžíková, Roman Hoza, Tereza Kyzlinková and others. more
The Brno group Funky Chicken christens its new CD with ostrich egg in the Metro Music Bar. more
This jubilee 10th year of the festival plays host to Maceo Parker, Ernie Watts, Jeff Lorber, The Puppini Sisters, Vojtěch Dyk & B-SIDE BAND and many others. more
Děti mezi reprákama christen their album Prázdniny
The Indie folk group Děti mezi reprákama is bringing out their third album and will christen it in Brno. 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
