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This alternative group from Kladno christened their album Kosti (Bones). Martin E. Kyšperský was godfather for this christening in Brno. more
ProART Festival has opened applications for the workshops in dance, singing, acting, photography and other arts. This year the festival will take place in Brno, Liberec and Valtice. The workshops will be led by, among others, Iva Bittová, Irene Bauer, Martin Dvořák, Ida Kelarová, Aleš Slanina, Leonie Wahl, Veronika Žilková and more. more
The traditional club night Hrnem Brnem brings together six music clubs. Čankišou, Safe Escape, Circus Brothers, Supertesla, The Rocket Dogz, Ghost of You and others will be performing. more
Brno Contemporary Orchestra: Birthday Concert for Marek Kopelent
The Brno Contemporary Orchestra is preparing an extraordinary concert for the 85th birthday of Marek Kopelent. A selection from his works will be performed by Irena Troupová, Vilém Veverka, Josef Klíč and the Brno Contemporary Orchestra under Pavel Šnajdr. more
The post-rock group Cold Cold Nights with Jakub Jirásek will christen their debut album The (Last) Summer in Brno. As a support act the Czech shoegazing group Manon Meurt will be performing. The concert will be accompanied by the light design of Natálie Rajnišová. more
The Ensemble Opera Diversa Examines Czech and Spanish Culture
This Czech-Spanish evening links two disparate worlds in the common form of the guitar concerto. The Czech premiere of the Concierto del agua by the Spanish composer Tomás Marco will be heard and contrasted with the work Concentus Eurydicae by Jan Novák. The Spanish guitarist Rubén Parejo and the conductor Robert Ferrer will perform together with Ensemble Opera Diversa. more
Brno’s Beatfest is in its 8th year. As part of an evening concert subitled Nechte zpívat Mišíka (Let Mišík Sing) a documentary with the same name by Jitka Němcová will be shown. Vladimír Mišík & Etc…, Ivan Hlas Trio, Michal Prokop, Roman Dragoun and others will be performing. more
The Wallachian group starts their birthday tour in the Fléda club. The Třínohý pes (Three-legged Dog) Tour carries the same name as the album they are releasing to mark their thirtieth anniversary. more
Brno Municipal Theatre Prepares the Premiere of the Musical Bítls
In this original musical by Stanislav Slovák, Jan Šotkovský and Petr Štěpán songs by the legendary group The Beatles will be performed in the English. 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
