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The ArtBar club in Brno hosts another Funky Night. Funky Chicken, Brass Avenue and Michael V of J.A.R, called Helicopter will appear. The event will feature well-known funky hits as well as completely new ones; the concerts will be accompanied by video projections and a light show. more
This Icelandic formation, headed by its founding members Daníel Ágúst and Biggi Veira, will bring its tenth album Lies Are More Flexible to Brno in autumn, released after a four-year studio pause in 2018. more
Czech Ensemble Baroque: Support the recording of the most famous work of the Czech native F. X. Richter
Czech Ensemble Baroque, under the baton of Roman Válek, is about to be the first in the world to record Super Flumina Babylonis – the most famous work of the Czech native F. X. Richter. A collection on the Hithit crowdfunding platform is currently running to support the release of this album. You can contribute until 16 May 2019. more
The first part of Folklore Art City will be staged today
The Folklore Art City project focuses on classical music based on traditional folklore. The project builds on the previous original one named Folklore and Feelings. This evening, classical music will meet with folklore in Era Café; we will listen to works by Antonín Dvořák, Klement Slavický and Leoš Janáček, with the appearance of opera singers Aneta Podracká Bendová and Eva Marie Kořená. more
Dance Brno 2019: International dance festival of contemporary and classical ballet
This year's Dance Brno 2019 is a follow-up to last year's Dance Brno 100 and the Tanec Brno festival, which has been organized by the NdB Ballet for over 25 years. The current edition will present one of the leading Baltic groups, namely the Lithuanian National Ballet. The programme will be complemented by the Slovenian National Theatre Ballet in Maribor and the Italian contemporary dance ensemble Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. The Czech dance scene will be represented by the ballet company of the South Bohemian Theatre from České Budějovice. more
Tickets for Moravian Autumn 2019 Now on Sale
Tickets for six selected concerts of Moravian Autumn 2019 are now on sale. The programme for the 50th festival reflects its roots and seeks new impulses in them. The festival (the still called the International Music Festival Brno) first took place in 1966, presenting the work of Bohuslav Martinů, a composer already recognised abroad but who was for political reasons marginalise at home. In the festival programme there will be performances for example from Piotr Anderszewski with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, David Greilsammer and his Geneva Camerata, Peter Eötvös and Dennis Russell Davies with the Brno Philharmonic, Alexandre Tharaud, Martinů Voices with Lukáš Vasilek, the Tiburtina Ensemble with Barbora Kabátková, Il Festino with Dagmar Šašková, Milan Paľa and Ladislav Fanzowitz. more
Czech Christmas Mass: Hey Václav!
This year there will once again be a joint concert of the Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra, Theatre Goose on a String and the P. Křížkovský Grammar School, playing the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub J. Ryba with the subtitle "Hey Václav!" The concert will be in memory of the figure of President Václav Havel. more
Lady Praga bring their new album Bez retuší to Brno
The group Lady Praga with the singer Veronika Bergmanová, at its head is bringing to Brno’s Music Lab their second album Bez retuší (Without retouching). more
Jakub Jan Ryba and a Christmas Encounter in Pasáž Alfa
As is now traditional the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba will be performed in Brno’s Alfa pasáž by members and friends of HaDivadlo and the Švanda Cafe. The public dress rehearsal will take place on Sunday and the official concert on Christmas Eve. more
Tomorrow’s New Year’s Concert with the Brno Philharmonic is a Celebration of Jubilees
The traditional New Year’s concert of the Brno Philharmonic will be taking place twice this year. The philharmonic concert will be welcoming the year 2019 and at the same time will also celebrate its 63rd birthday. Tomorrow’s concert will belong to famous jubilees. It is 200 years since the birth of Offenbach, Moniuszka and Suppé, and 175 years since that of Rimsky-Korsakov. There will be famous opera and operetta overtures and Dvořák’s cello concerto in B minor. It will be played by the British soloist Raphaell Wallfisch, cello teacher and conductor Robert Kružík, who will be in charge of the New Year’s concert. 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
