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Drummer Chris "Daddy" Dave will be another guest of the autumn echoes of JazzFestBrno. He will perform in the Sono Centre with his own band called Drumhedz, where he will present his works combining various genre influences from modern jazz to rock and R&B or hip-hop. Hiromi, Aaron Parks "Little Big" and Shai Maestro Trio will also appear during the autumn concert series. more
The dance group Protyboty, together with the musician Eva Rohleder, will launch their album Slon a mravenec [Elephant and Ant]. The stage production of the same name for children is based on a book by Daisy Mrázková, accompanied by songs of Eva Rohleder, which are now captured on the upcoming album. A guest of the album release will be Jiří Jelínek. more
Moravian Autumn festival celebrates 50 years. It will open with an opera by Phil Glass with Suzanne Vega
Bohuslav Martinů and composers related with him and with France. Composers celebrating the jubilee as well as the Moravian Autumn festival. These are the main themes of this year's edition. The festival runs from late September to mid-October. It will open with Einstein on the Beach, a minimalist opera by Philip Glass, in which Suzanne Vega takes on the role of the narrator. The festival will culminate with two life anniversaries, celebrated by the chief conductor of the Brno Philharmonic, Dennis Russell Davies, and Hungarian conductor, composer and teacher Peter Eötvös. more
The operatic season will start with The Tales of Hoffmann directed by SKUTR
The motto of the 2019/20 operatic season is the Searching… Already the very first premiere is dedicated to the theme of the search for love. The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacque Offenbach are being prepared by the duo of directors SKUTR (which stands for Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský). This opera returns to the stage of the Janáček Theatre after almost twenty years, this time in a musical production by Ondrej Olos. The main roles will be performed by soloists of Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno, and regular guests of the ensemble will also appear. The leading female roles will feature, for example, Markéta Cukrová, Slovak soprano Martina Masaryková, Pavla Vykopalová and Daniela Straková-Šedrlová. The male parts will be performed by Luciano Mastro and Mickael Spadaccinni, or, for example, Ondrej Mráz and Jiří Sulženko. more
Brno Philharmonic's 64th season will begin with Elisabeth Leonskaja
Brno Philharmonic will start its 64th concert season this Thursday. The show will feature guest pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, and the concert will be conducted by chief conductor and artistic director Dennis Russell Davies. Works by Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók and Joe Hisaishi will be played. more
Grobians. Premiere of three mini operas by Ensemble Opera Diversa
Soon the Ensemble Opera Diversa will present three opera pieces by pairs of librettists Pavel Drábek and Vendula Borůvková and composers Maria Buzzi, Ondřej Kyas and Martin Kux directed by Lukáš Kopecký. The premiere will take place in the Buranteatr in Brno. more
Musician Radim Hanousek invites you to today's improvisation workshop for children. The event will take place in the Museum of Roma Culture. more
Masterclass of French music with Dagmar Šašková
The Academy of Early Music organizes a masterclass of mezzo-soprano Dagmar Šašková with a focus on French Baroque music. The course is open to all lovers of Baroque music, without any age limitation. It is suitable for both active and passive participation; registration of participants will be possible only until tomorrow, 24 September 2019. more
The Leoš Janáček International Competition will welcome musicians from thirty countries around the world
The Leoš Janáček International Competition will once again be held in Brno. This year's festival hosts over two hundred young musicians under 35 from almost thirty countries. The competition is organized by the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and performers in the fields of flute and clarinet will perform at the Brno Academy of Arts. more
Workshop on the topic of How to make a living in music in 2020 will be held in cooperation with the label Future Archive Recordings. Artists and music professionals from abroad will come to Brno to share their experience in the music industry. The workshop is in English and is free of charge upon registration. more
Another of the jazz evenings regularly organised by the Brno Philharmonic was dedicated to the duo Will Vinson (alto saxophone) and Aaron Parks (piano). These musicians have been working together in various formations for twenty years. So they decided that it was time to try the most intimate and, according to many, the most difficult - playing as a mere duo. These mid-generation jazz musicians performed a selection of classical jazz material as well as several of their own compositions on Monday 10 March at the Besední dům. more
This year's first concert by the Brno Contemporary Orchestra from the Auscultation series was entitled Gastro (Cuisine), or Dinner for Magdalena Dobromila Rettig (1785-1845). On Sunday, 2 February, the orchestra performed two compositions, or rather performances and happenings by Ondřej Adámek (*1979), who also conducted the pieces, in the dining room of the Masaryk Student House. This was a fairly unusual situation for the audience, when conductor Pavel Šnajdr did not take his place at the head of the orchestra. more
The fourth concert in the Brno Philharmonic's Philharmonic at Home subscription series, subtitled Metamorphoses and conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, was dedicated to works by Joseph Haydn, Antonín Rejcha and Richard Strauss. Pianist Ivan Ilić was originally scheduled to appear as soloist in Rejcha's Piano Concerto, but for health reasons he cancelled the concert. Jan Bartoš promptly took over, enabling the audience to hear the original programme on Thursday 30 January at the Besední dům. more
The Brno Philharmonic's New Year's concert on 1 January at the Janáček Theatre is already a well-established tradition. This year was no exception, and the orchestra, led by conductor Michel Tabachnik, gave a performance consisting mainly of works by Johann Strauss the Younger. This was the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra's show opening the 'Strauss Year'. After all, 2025 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer, dubbed the king of waltzes. Strauss's compositions were accompanied by works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Strauss and Dimitri Shostakovich. more
"Culture is a Bridge" was the theme of the second Czech-Austrian Partnership Concert, held on Friday, 20 December at Schloss Thalheim. It was the final evening of the 5th year of the pan-European project Czech Dreams 2024, and also part of the celebrations of the Year of Czech Music and the Concentus Moraviae international music festival. Culture is a bridge that connects not only different generations and social classes, but also entire nations. And the Czech Dreams project, which in 2024 alone presented music by Czech composers in 25 European cities in 17 different countries, is an eloquent example of this. In December alone, besides the final concert in Austria, six more concerts were performed in southern Europe, from Amarante in Portugal to Varaždin in Croatia. The concert was dedicated to the Lower Austrian Governor Erwin Pröll, who has long been committed to building and deepening relations between the Czech Republic and Austria. more
