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Anatoli Christens the Album Oli i rebetes tu dunia
The Brno group Anatoli focuses on the interpretation of Greek traditional music and the genre of rebetiko. The group has been playing for more than five years, and during that time a number of musicians of a wide variety of nationalities have passed through its ranks while its core has always been made up of Brno Greeks. The new album in the Stará Pekárna club. more
The second season of the Meeting Brno 2017 festival is connected with the celebration of the Czech-German Spring. The festival will ceremonially open with the launching of the Meeting Brno Point installation on Moravské náměstí Square and a concert by the Brno Philharmonic. more
End of the 61st Season. Polina Osetinskaya and Matthew Barley Appear with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
The end of the season is approaching and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra has only two subscription programmes to present. The first of these will be Views of the Past by the former child prodigy Polina Osetinskaya, and after that the Season Soloist with British classics, in which this year’s season soloist, Matthew Barley, will perform. more
Forgotten Jewish Composers: Home is far, far away
Melodies interwoven with the poetry of Jewish poets from the interwar a war periods in the spaces of Interiér NEST. The works of the Brno native Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullman, Hans Krása and Gideon Klein will be heard. Part of the musical-commemorative programme will be the world premiere of the composition Mea Culpa by Jiří Miroslav Procházka. The programme is loosely based on the idea of the Year of Reconciliation from 2015. more
VUS Ondráš holds auditions for the professional part of the ensemble
The professional folk ensemble Ondráš is looking for new members for its dance group and the orchestra of folk instruments. more
The Ballet Premiere of Sleeping Beauty Will Take Place This Weekend
The National Theatre Brno Ballet will be performing the work of the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sleeping Beauty is returning to the Brno stage for the third time. more
The Brno City Municipality Opens a Grant Programme to Support Projects for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia
The Brno City Municipality – Culture Department has opened a grant programme for the support of projects for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia and the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and for the 50th anniversary of the events of August 1968. more
The Slovak group Fallgrapp has released their second album V hmle (In the Fog). They are performing the concert version in Brno’s Fléda club with an eight-man line-up with a trio of violins and drums. They will be introduced in the stage by the ambient music duo Himalayan Dalai Lama. The will end with the Slovak producer Fvlcrvm. more
This traditional event of Brno’s art schools is this year focused on a selection from the contemporary music scene, the sounds of r'n'b, rap, house and techno. more
This Brno group’s album was created during the summer and autumn of 2016. Budoár staré dámy (Old Lady’s Boudoir) recorded it in the Indies studio with Broněk Šmid. 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
