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Latest: Zdenka Kareninová, a long-standing soloist of the Janáček Opera, has died
Today, 15 February 2020, Zdenka Kareninová, a long-standing soloist of the Janáček Opera in Brno, has died in her age of almost 90 years. more
The 11th Beatfest in Brno has a subtitle “A Trip to the Nineteen-eighties”. Laura a její tygři, Folk Team, Krausberry, Miloš Makovský, Futurum and Krabat will appear at KC Semilasso this year. more
Marathon of Music Brno 2020: The festival tailored for the city attracts with a number of new features
A summer walk around Brno's downtown where music sounds at every step? That was and will be the Marathon of Music Festival in Brno. The centre of Brno will resound with the festival already for the fifth time this August. The programme promises a great variety of genres, reputed names of artists, but also space for young talent. Once again, music will be played at unconventional venues and in rooms by Kateřina Šedá; concerts will newly be staged, for example, in a kitchen storage room or a in a children's room. more
Carnival festivity in the locality nicknamed "the Bronx of Brno" will take place for the second time this year. The aim of the event is to involve the local community and use the public space for meetings. This year's subheading is A Matter of the Heart. more
Cotatcha Orchestra is preparing a concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz legends that have influenced the history of this genre. Among those to whom tribute is paid there are the bebop icon Charlie Parker, trumpeter Clark Terry, double Grammy winner Peggy Lee, pioneer of odd rhythms in jazz music Dave Brubeck and Modern Jazz Quartet bandleader John Lewis. Catalan vocalist Mar Vilaseca will appear as a guest. more
A journey around Europe with Czech Ensemble Baroque
Czech Ensemble Baroque is preparing a concert in the Besední dům, which will guide the audience through musical Europe of the Baroque period. The Singende Geographie [Singing Geography] suite by Georg Philipp Telemann will be accompanied by a Baroque fashion show performed by the Alla Danza Brno – Baroque historical dance ensemble. more
The Lady with the Camellias. Premiere of an original ballet in the NdB
The ballet ensemble of the National Theatre Brno will present an original ballet piece based on the novel by Alexander Dumas Jr. and music by Franz Schubert, in an arrangement by Andrei Pushkarev. This production was created under the leadership of the choreographer Valentina Turcu. Conductor Robert Kružík undertook the musical preparation of the performance with the orchestra of the Janáček Opera. more
Seminar on folk dance and costumes
The civic association Brněnsko tančí a zpívá (Brno Dancing and Singing) organizes a traditional seminar on folk dance, folk costumes and dialect in the Brno region. more
Brasil Fest Brno will celebrate one hundred years of the existence of Czech-Brazilian relations. The celebrations will justifiably take place in Brno, with which two Czechs are linked, who were the only ones who managed to qualify for the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as performers. They are dancers Veronika Lálová and musician Jakub Škrha. The festival will begin with a procession, and then it will continue with concerts and thematic workshops. more
The band Mňága a Žďorp will bring to Brno their new recording entitled Třecí plochy [Friction Surfaces]. Guest musicians on the album are singer Jitka Andrášková and keyboard player Milan Nytra, both of whom will attend the Brno concert at the Fléda club. 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
