News
The comical opera of Bohuslav Martinů directed by Vendelína Osvaldová was staged by students of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts. more
Alex Szilasi, soprano vocalist Yvette Mondok and Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa in concert together at the Besední dům. Part of the programme is also one of Chopin's piano concerts performed on the period golden piano Pleyel. more
Today’s festival of Romani culture will feature Kale, Gejza Horváth and band, the dance group Merci as well as others. more
The Open House project is another event related to the 50th anniversary of the Janáček Theatre building opening. For two days, the theatre will be opened to visitors even outside the regular production and it will offer the tour of the stage, rehearsal rooms, backstage or the technical facilities of the building. more
The band Machu Pichu, Mirek Imrich and the band Tango will perform at the anniversary of the underground band. more
The Prague ska band will give a concert as part of their 25 Years Tour at the club Fléda in Brno. more
The christening of the third album of the band Helemese from Kyjov will take place in the Alterna club. The singer Nikola Mucha and Circus Problem will perform as part of the concert. more
The new opera Trautzl by Jan Zástěra is the first production of the Divadlo 2-15 theatre. The story takes place in the period when Giacomo Casanova lived in Duchov castle, where he met the priest Jakub Jan Trautzl. more
The fourth year of the festival is very colourful this year; it will feature bands such as Buffalo Bells, Black Burley, Grape and singer Harry Gump. more
The Prague band Tata Bojs will release their tenth CD, which will be christened in the Sono Centre. 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
