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Kamenka Open: Korajunglejazz, Funky chicken or Divadlo Hysterie
The weekend festival in Brno’s Kamenná kolonie offers concerts, screenings of documentaries from the One World Festival and children’s theatre. more
Festival of Baroque Theatre in Mikulov: Ensemble Opera Diversa, Hof Musici, Divadlo Koráb and others
The Baroque theatre festival Moravský Parnas Johanna Georga Gettnera (The Moravian Parnassus of Johann Georg Gettner) commemorates the theatre tradition in Mikulov, which in earlier times was one of central Europe’s centres of theatre. The festival programme will include performances of plays, lectures and shows by comedians in the square. more
Znojmo Music Festival 2017: Pavel Šporcl, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Czech Ensemble Baroque and others
The 13th Znojmo Music Festival is taking place in Znojmo and its surroundings. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the appearance of the reformation priest Martin Luther, and thus the thematic lines of the festival are inspired by relations between Protestantism and Catholicism. more
Folkové prázdniny: Reyfado Lisboa, Iva Bittová & Čikori, Vilém Spilka Quartet, Blick Bassy and others
The international multi-genre festival Folkové prázdniny (Folk Holidays) in Náměšť nad Oslavou this year enters its 32nd year. The festival programme includes concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions, dances and events for children. The theme of the festival is “Of Dreams and Dreamers”. more
News: The Znojmo Music Festival is opened today by Pavel Šporcl
Today the 13th Znojmo Music Festival begins, dedicated to the Lutheran period. As part of today’s ceremonial opening concert the patron of the festival Pavel Šporcl will be performing along with the pianist Petr Jiříkovský with the Janáček Chamber Orchestra. The festival programme also offers appearances by the baroque orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Tour de varhany with Martin Jakubíček and the Story of Christ, which was created as a stage depiction of the works of Heinrich Schütz. more
Sold Laughter at the Brno City Theatre
The musical story based on the novel by James Krüss of the same name will be directed by Petr Gazdík from the Brno City Theatre. Jan Brožek and Martin Havelka will appear in the lead roles. more
News: Premiere of Figarka Today in the Orlí Street Theatre
The Orlí Street Theatre will premiere the new musical by Petr Štěpán and Miroslav Ondra today. Lukáš Janota is the author of the music. more
Brno Philharmonic and Kantiléna Choir to Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary with a Joint Concert
Soloists Pavla Vykopalová, Tomáš Kořínek and Jiří Sulženko and Kühnův dětský sbor (Kühn Children's Choir) will be guests of the Brno Philharmonic and Kantiléna in the Stadion Functionalism Hall. 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
