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The Brno National Theatre Will Hold Two Auditions. It Is Also Looking for Dancers and New Faces of Its Campaign
The Brno National Theatre is looking among its audience for new faces for a campaign for the upcoming season which will feature a total of 16 new productions. The Janáček Opera Ensemble announces auditions for movement-dance roles in the opera production of Katya Kabanova directed by Robert Carsen. more
Bonjour Brno Festival: Music, Dance Workshops and Films
French-speaking nations will present their culture through theatrical performances, concerts, films, art workshops and gastronomy. more
Pavel Haas Quartet Won the BBC Music Magazine Award
Pavel Haas Quartet, residential artists of this year's Concentus Moraviae Festival, won the prestigious award for their album with quartets by Bedřich Smetana. more
Guests at the birthday concert of Vladimír Merta in the Mersey Club in Brno will include violinist Jan Hrubý and pianist and guitarist Ondřej Fencl. more
Prague Cello Quartet: Charity Concert to Support the Purchase of a New Organ
Young violoncellists of the Prague Cello Quartet will perform at the Besední dům (Concert Hall) to support the purchase of a new organ for the Holy Trinity Church in Brno-Královo Pole. more
News: Brno Will Stand as a Candidate for the Title of the UNESCO Creative City of Music
The intention to run for the title of the 2017 UNESCO Creative City of Music was approved by the Brno City Council on 29 March. more
Tanec a Handicap (Dance and Disability) is a festival of physical theatre and expressive dance in Brno. In the Czech Republic, it is the only festival that gives space to dance groups, in which both disabled and healthy people perform together. more
Days of Polish Culture in Brno: Music, Films, Literature
The Days of Polish Culture will be held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the partnership between Brno and Poznań. The programme offers concerts, films, the commemoration of the 150th birthday of the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, a photo exhibition, gastronomy, and a children’s workshop and competition. more
Brno International Tap Dancing Festival: Dancing in the Streets, Exhibition and Dance Lessons
The festival will officially open with a dance flashmob at Freedom Square, the highlight of the event will be the Great Tap Dancing Show in the Sono Centre in Brno. The accompanying programme offers an exhibition of tap dancing-themed photographs, dance lessons and seminars led by foreign lecturers. 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
