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Petr Dvorský will celebrate his birthday with a big concert during the 2016 JazzFestBrno Festival. Performing will be Emil Viklický, Andy Winter, Johannes Enders and more. more
Thálie Award for Jaroslav Březina for the Role of Laco in the Brno Production of Jenůfa
Tenor Jaroslav Březina won the award for outstanding performance in the opera production of the Brno National Theatre. Bassist Dalibor Jedlička, who studied and performed in Brno, received an award for lifetime achievement in opera. more
News: Květy and Ponk Won 2015 Genre Anděl Awards
Two bands from Brno have been holders of the 2015 Genre Anděl Awards since yesterday. Květy won the award for their album Miláček slunce in the Alternative Music category and Ponk for World Music. more
Once again, the programme of the 2016 Divadelní Svět Brno International Festival features musical works. Musicals will be represented by the Zlín City Theatre with the production called Malované na skle (Painted on Glass), guests from Israel will present the cabaret Dům u jezera (The House at the Lake), and the Brno National Theatre will perform Bohuslav Martinů’s The Epic of Gilgamesh. more
News: Construction of a Concert Hall in Brno Supported by More Artists and Politicians
The new concert hall, which has been discussed in Brno for decades, has received support from personalities such as Milan Kundera, Milan Uhde, Maxim Velčovský and Kateřina Tučková. The patron of the hall is Magdalena Kožená. more
The rock-pop band is saying goodbye to one of its founding members after 15 years. They will release their fourth album at the last concert. more
Jazz musician and Grammy winner Oran Etkin will lead a children's workshop on a music teaching method called Timbalooloo. more
New Musical Season at Brno City Theatre
In the following season 2016/2017, Brno City Theatre will offer a total of four musical premieres. The programme will feature performances such as Lemonade Joe and Jeanne d’Arc, a new musical Beatles and jazz work by Miloš Štědroň and Milan Uhde Viki kráčí za štěstím (Viki Walking Towards Happiness). more
The Echoes Festival explores the boundaries between the analogue, digital and audiovisual world. The star of the festival, which will take place at Fléda Club, is Bokka, a band of five from Poland. Furthermore, Herzog Herzog from Slovenia and Dirty Picnic, HRTL and Holy from the Czech Republic will perform. more
Symposium: Art, Music and Management
The fourth meeting of students, teachers and experts in the field of music and arts management will be held at the JAMU in Brno. Invited guests operate in the representation of artists, in the music industry and in educational institutions. 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
