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The spring part of the festival in the Stará Pekárna club will begin this evening with the concert of English singer Elles Bailey, accompanied by the Czech band The Bladderstones. The festival promises 27 jazz and blues concerts with an international representation. We will get to see for example the Mike Ross Blues Band, Marek Kotača Trio, Tom Smith Quartet and the Vilém Spilka Quartet. more
Brno Organist Petr Kolař will Receive the Jan Václav Stamic Prize
The important organist, teacher and church musician Petr Kolář will receive the Jan Václav Stamic prize for 2018. The ceremonial awarding of the prize will take place at St. Peter and Paul’s cathedral in Brno. more
The international jazz festival JazzFestBrno published its complete programme today. It promises fifteen musical evenings, where we will get to hear great names including the bassist Stanley Clarke, trumpet player Theo Croker, Avishai Cohen and Peter Evans, guitarist Julian Lage and South African singer Melanie Scholtz. This year, the festival will pay homage to the legends of the Czech Contraband stage Milan Svoboda and Luboš Andršt, whose Blues Band will be joined by the singer Peter Lipa. The list will also include big names of contemporary Czech jazz such as bassist Jaromír Honzák, trumpet player Štěpánka Balcarová and Michal Nejtek. more
The Brno Contemporary Orchestra will Present a Cooperative Project with Cirkus LeGrando
The Brno musical ensemble Brno Contemporary Orchestra will present the works of Erwin Schulhoff and Mauricio Kagel. Pavel Šnajdr will conduct the performance under the direction of Matěj Sýkora. more
Dennis Russell Davies will Perform as a Pianist for the First Time in Brno
The principal conductor of Brno Philharmonic Dennis Russell Davies is recognised around the world both as a conductor and as a pianist. And it will be in the latter role that he will perform to a Brno audience for the first time on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The concert on Wednesday will be broadcast live by Czech Radio Vltava and taken up by radio stations in the Euroradio network (EBU). It will include Bagatelles by Antonín Dvořák, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Minor and the Symphony in D Major by Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek. more
Cabaret at the Divadlo na Orlí
The students of musical acting at JAMU will be introducing the musical Cabaret in two premieres. The production, directed by Martin Vokoun has two alternating performers of the main female role, Sally Bowles. more
Songs of Christmas. The new album by Lilium Liste
The album of Moravian and Silesian carols under the name Písně vánočního času (“Songs of Christmas-time”) was recorded by the group Lilium Liste. When choosing the songs, they focused on lesser known carols. The recording is an authentic interpretation of the musical legacy of the folk tradition without extensive arrangements. more
Festival of percussion instruments: workshops, concerts and a sales show
The international festival that gives space for a new generation of percussionists from both Czech and foreign conservatories and academies is entering its fifth year. During these three days, the best students of chosen classes will be performing. The programme is completed by concerts, workshops of foreign lecturers and a sales show of percussion instruments. The big events this year are the percussion workshops. more
Double christening of album Chce to hit! by band Poletíme?
The band Poletíme? (“Will we fly?”) has published its new album Chce to hit!(“It needs a hit!”), which it will be presenting as part of the concert series Chce to Tour (“It needs a Tour!”). The Brno christening of the album will take place twice in the Fléda club. more
The project Moravské hlasy – východní Morava is looking for support
Jiří Plocek’s project follows up on the existing album Moravské hlasy - jižní Morava (“Moravian voices – South Moravia”), which was released at the end of 2017. The campaign for the support of the next CD will be taking place up to the end of 2018. 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
