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64th season of Brno Philharmonic: World and Czech premieres, L. van Beethoven's anniversary celebrations and more
Two world and three Czech premieres, 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, a combination of older and contemporary works such as Schumann - Vasks, Brahms - Nejtek or Mendelssohn - Rautavaara.This is the upcoming 64th Philharmonic season, which will also welcome the fresh Grammy winner Laurie Anderson to Brno. more
ProART festival has revealed thirty summer workshop tutors
The ProART festival is entering its 16th season this year. This international festival of dance, singing, acting, photography and other performing arts has revealed thirty tutors for summer workshops, which take place in five cities of the Czech Republic. The motto of this year's season is "Trust in yourself... follow your dream...". Among the tutors at the Brno part of the festival there are dancers Eran Gisin, Leoni Wahl and Žiga Jereb, writer Tereza Boučková, singers Ilona Csáková and Lukáš Janota, and actress Vica Kerekes. more
Latest news: Lectures by Estonian composer Toivo Tulev and others are starting today
A series of lectures by Estonian composer Toivo Tulev and other guests will begin today as part of course titled Contemporary Sacred and Spiritual Music in the Baltic Region at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. These lectures are open to the public. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: Rusko – Rusko Recital
Ivana Rusko (née Krejčiříková) was one of the first primadonnas in the history of the ensemble. Now, Rusko will appear in Brno after many years with her husband, the tenor Jan Rusko and Slovakian pianist Matej Arendárik. The programme of the concert is a cross-section of Czech and Slovak music composers ranging from Vítězslav Novák to Peter Špilák. more
Flutist Martina Komínková is preparing a multi-genre project The Prophet and the Wind. She seeks support at Hithit
The flute player and teacher Martina Komínková is currently preparing a project entitled The Prophet and the Wind, based on the novel of the same name by Italian writer Stefano Biavaschi. The author of the music and the key protagonist is Komínková herself. Two premières await the project, one in her hometown Brno and one in Italy. Komínková is now looking for financial support on the Hithit web portal, where you can contribute until 30 May 2019. more
Monkey Business, the fresh Anděl Award winning band, hit the road for a spring tour as a promo to their recent album Bad Time for Gentleman. This time they will be accompanied by vocalist Tereza Černochová. more
Janáček Brno is the winner of The International Opera Awards
The International Opera Awards were announced on 29 April 2019 in London, where it was taken over by the director of the National Theatre Brno Martin Glaser, and the artistic director of the opera Jiří Heřman. more
The music festival ObrFest will take place in Brno – in the Maloměřice and Obřany district for the seventh time. During one June weekend the stage will include musicians such as Lenka Dusilová, Kittchen + Aid Kid with projections by Linda Arbanová, Lazer Viking, Už jsme doma, Jiří Schmitzer and British blues singer-songwriter Justin Lavash. As every year, the festival will include Brno bands and musicians from Maloměřice and Obřany. The accompanying programme of the festival also includes children’s activities. more
The festival of blind and partially sighted children and youth enters its 30th season. What originally was a musical show of visually handicapped children has eventually become a several-day international festival, which brings the "dark blue" reality to the general public. more
Brno Philharmonic opens the position of PR and Marketing Manager
The management of the Brno Philharmonic announces a tender for the position of PR and Marketing Manager. Starting from 1 June 2019. 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
