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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
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
