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This year's traditional gala evening with the awarding of awards of the audience DIVA will be in the Saturnin-like spirit. It is hosted by Ondřej Havelka, the swing melodies will be provided by the Melody Gentlemen. more
News: The band Čohanas Invites Its Fans to Today’s Filming of Its Music Video
Čohanas, a young band from Brno, will be filming their first music video in Kabinet múz today and they are inviting all their fans to join as extras. more
2016 Easter Festival of Sacred Music: Music Pilgrimage Through Brno Churches
The main theme of this year’s 25th International Festival is Heart/Refuge. The festival will feature nine concerts in Brno churches, three of them at night by candlelight. The programme includes works by Antonín Dvořák, Petr Eben or František Xaver Richter, whose oratorio La deposizione dalla croce di Gesú Christo will premiere in the Czech Republic. Some of the performers include the Brno Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, French choir Discantus, the Czech Philharmonic in Brno, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Ensemble Opera Diversa and Marek Eben as a reciter. more
Neřež: Concert on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Zdeněk Vřešťál
The band Neřež will perform in the Sono Centre in Brno accompanied by Slovak singer Kateřina Koščová. They will also introduce their new album entitled Jen blázni překročí svůj stín (Only Fools Step Beyond Their Shadows). more
The crossover formation Hentai Corporation and thrash metal band Debustrol will celebrate their anniversaries. The Brno concert will take place at Fléda Club. more
Brno National Theatre Will Perform Carmen with an International Cast
After a year, the opera Carmen returns to the stage of Janáček Theatre in a new staging. Guest mezzo-soprano Atala Schöck from Hungary will perform in the lead role, and tenor Alexandru Badea from Romania as Don José. more
The culmination of the Itch My Ha Ha Ha Festival showcase, which takes place from September to March in Brno, will be the first and only performance of Cabaret Voltaire in the Fléda Club. Daniel Miller, the founder of the London label Mute, HuJo and Fiordmoss will perform with them. more
New Staging of the Opera Carmen at the Brno National Theatre
George Bizet’s opera Carmen is the fourth premiere of the season. Jana Hrochová, Alexandru Badea, Jakub Kettner and others will perform in the lead roles in the staging of young opera director Tomáš Pilař conducted by Ondrej Olos. more
This year's Hrnem Brnem club night will again take place simultaneously in Eleven Club, Favál, Melodka, Fléda, Mersey and Metro Music Bar, and it will also connect them with free H and B bus lines. A total of 25 bands, including Totální nasazení, Circus Problem, Funky Chicken, Atari Terror and more, will perform. 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
