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The Brno Music Marathon 2020 presents the first part of its programme
The multi-genre Brno Music Marathon festival is about to enter its fourth season. In August, Brno will have four days full of music that will sound in the city squares, in the festival rooms of Kateřina Šedá, and traditionally in the Alfa pasáž shopping mall. The genre representation in the programme ranges from groove, dance and Romani music through opera, folklore, world music, classics and musicals. Performers will include Pavel Fischer & Jakub Jedlinský, VUS Ondráš with a project by Jiří Slavík, the Indigo Quartet, Monika Načeva, the Epoque Quartet and many others. more
A series of six concerts will take place in the compound of the former Řečkovice brewery. One of them will be an evening called Pocta Petru Skoumalovi [Tribute to Petr Skoumal], featuring Jaroslav Olin Nejezchleba and Malý Bobr. more
The Jazz Courtyard Will Once Again Make the Old Town Hall Resound with Music
After a long pause, jazz music also comes to the fore. The Jazz Courtyard will take place again this year, promising a series of concerts jointly initiated by the jazz departments of Prague’s HAMU and Brno’s JAMU musical academies. The students' ensembles of both schools, their own long-term projects of selected students and, in the case of Brno, also teachers will present themselves in the Czech and Moravian metropolises. more
Fête de la Musique will be celebrated today with an online concert from all over the world
The world celebration of music, known as Fête de la Musique, will be held on this particular day of 21 June. The current situation does not allow for mass celebrations in the form of concerts, happenings and performances in the streets of UNESCO Music Cities. That is why this year's celebrations of music will take place in the form of an online concert. Today's virtual music festival, which starts at 12:00, is jointly held by more than 20 cities from all around the world. You can watch the concert on the Facebook page UNESCO Cities of Music and on YouTube. more
Latest: Jakub Hrůša and Ivo Kahánek won the Anděl Award for 2019
Ivo Kahánek, Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony won the Anděl Award for the best album in the classical music category. The album entitled Dvořák & Martinů: Piano Concertos also won the BBC Music Magazine award this year. more
The two-day Ghettofest festival is entering its ninth season. Its fundamental idea is to present the "Brno Bronx" as an open and friendly place for at least two days. The motto of this season is An Affair of the Heart, thematically following on from the Masopust (Carnival) festivity, which took place in February. Due to sanitary precautions, the programme will be divided between several smaller separate stages this time. The artists featured will be David Kraus & Gipsy Brothers, Tafrob, Maniak or Prago Union. The festival will also feature a programme for children. more
The Znojmo Music Festival Will Take Place in Full
Despite coronavirus measures, the 16th Znojmo Music Festival will take place unchanged and in full. During July, more than 25 music events will take place in Znojmo and its surroundings. The central theme is the blending of theatre and music. The subheading is "Music in theatre, theatre in music". more
The festival for the Jewish quarter of Boskovice will take place in a more intimate version with a limited number of visitors this year. The organisers invite you to a three-day festival to take place this August. The programme promises representation of the Czech-German jazz scene, blues, theatre performances, site-specific projects, readings and lectures. more
The Brno Philharmonic is filling the position of Executive Editor
The management of the Brno Philharmonic has announced a selection procedure for the position of Executive Editor, who will be supposed to start work from 1 November 2020. more
Ibérica Festival: Spanish artists will visit Brno as late as August
The Ibérica Festival of Ibero-American Cultures is entering its 17th season on new dates. Due to the current pandemic situation, it will not take place until August. In addition to Brno and Prague, the festival will also visit the castles in Lysice and Čechy pod Kosířem. The talented flamenco dancer Mónica Iglesias will be featured this year. The Brno part of the festival will also host the guitar player Pavel Steidl. 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
