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Cotatcha Orchestra is preparing a new project combining unique compositions tailor-composed for the orchestra and its soloists with ambient electronic music. The Brno concert is announced to take place at the beginning of November at Divadlo na Orlí. more
An open air concert will open the new season of the National Theatre Brno
The 2019/2020 theatre season of the National Theatre Brno (NdB) will be officially opened by a joint performance of NdB artists on the piazzetta in front of the Janáček Theatre. Under the baton of the conductor Marko Ivanović there will appear soloists such as Jana Šrejma Kačírková, Pavla Vykopalová, Václava Krejčí Housková, Roman Hoza, Jiří Sulženko, Ondřej Koplík and others. Together with them the choir and orchestra of the NdB Janáček Theatre's opera ensemble will appear and present the upcoming season and its titles. more
International Folklore Festival Brno 2019 is about to begin tomorrow
The International Folklore Festival Brno has been held regularly since 1990, always at the end of the school holidays. The opening gala ceremony of this year's festival will take place tomorrow in the courtyard of the New Town Hall. We will see performances by BROLN and VUS ONDRÁŠ [Ondráš Military Artistic Ensemble] with their soloists. During the festival there will also appear ensembles such as Silesianie from Poland, Volynianka from Ukraine or Seljačka Sloga from Croatia. more
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Gideon Klein celebrations will make Brno's villas sound with music
The Gido Returns Home project commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of musician, composer, teacher, music promoter and native of Přerov Gideon Klein. In the framework of this project, the artist will symbolically return home to his native town of Přerov and also to the places he used to love. In Brno, it will be the Löw-Beer villa, where a birthday celebration called Jazz for Gido is going to be organised; it will be followed by a concert along with a guided tour in the Stiassni Villa. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: Contemporary Religious Music in Brno
Ensemble Opera Diversa is preparing the second performance of the 25th symphony by the composer František Gregor Emmert in Brno. The programme, dedicated to contemporary sacred music, will complement this symphony with a selection of Emmert's Psalm Songs and an iconic composition for strings by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The soloists of the evening will be Jarmila Balážová, Milan Paľa and Marek Paľa, and the concert will be conducted by Marián Lejava. more
This year's Blues Rock Fest will feature as many as five music evenings at the Metro Music Bar in Brno. Matěj Ptaszek and Jan St. Johnny Stehlík, who together will present their new CD dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival. Also featured will be Lord Bishop Rocks from the USA and Tom Jegr Gang, Julian Sas Band, Pump and Charlie The Bomber. The conclusion of the festival will belong to Hoochie Coochie Band, who will celebrate their quarter of a century on the music scene. more
Brno Radio will open an exhibition today to mark its 95th anniversary
Brno Radio will open an exhibition tomorrow to mark its 95th anniversary of regular broadcasting. The exhibition features the voices of Oldřich Nový, Karel Absolon and Jiří Mahen falling from a special sound shower. There will also be a radio receiver, which was made ninety years ago by Brno airport staff for their director. The exhibition starts today 6 September. more
The Icelandic band GusGus will start the autumn season at Fléda. It will be followed by a concert of the Ukrainian rapper Alyona Alyona. New albums will be presented in Brno by Hooverphonic, Jan Blomqvist Band, De Staat, Movits! and Kadebostany. The highlight of the autumn dramaturgy will be a performance by Vitalic with their new project Kompromat. more
Bacha na Mozarta! cycle will open the season with a world première
A concert cycle of Czech Ensemble Baroque entitled Bacha na Mozarta! [in Czech, this is a pun meaning both "Bach on Mozart!" and "Beware of Mozart!"] will open the season in Brno with the world première of Offertoria by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský. The first concert of the 8th season of this cycle will take place in the Church of St. Michael. more
Babylonfest: Púčik, Matrjoška or Německý pěvecký kroužek
Babylonfest is a parade of national and ethnic minorities living in the city of Brno. This year it enters its 12th season. Its programme will offer concerts, music-literary works and a pub quiz. For example, the folk ensemble Púčik, the Russian ensemble Matrjoška [Matryoshka], Německý pěvecký kroužek [The German Singing Club], the dance group Piroš rouža, the dance ensemble Prometheus and others will perform. 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
