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The Brno Philharmonic will launch its 65th season and continue its collaboration with Dennis R. Davies
The Brno Philharmonic will launch its 65th season with Arvo Pärt and Anton Bruckner on Petrov. The chief conductor and artistic director Dennis Russell Davies, who will conduct the concert, is entering his third season in Brno this year. Davies has signed an extension to the cooperation, so his contract will now last until 2024. more
Concentus Moraviae is celebrating 25 years, featuring Collegium 1704, Magdalena Kožená and others
The Concentus Moraviae festival is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. Within the programme, which will take place this year no earlier than during the autumn, twenty-five concerts will be performed by the foremost Czech artists. The concerts will take place in castle halls, basilicas and churches, as well as modern venues. This dramaturge of this season is Barbara Maria Willi, who called it My Home. more
Ensemble Versus: Motets by Thomas Stoltzer and Josquin Desprez
The September concert of Ensemble Versus chamber choir confronts sacred compositions of two Renaissance giants – Thomas Stoltzer and Josquin Desprez. more
Bacha na Mozarta! cycle will be launched with an operatic pantomime with Arnošt Goldflam
The Czech Ensemble Baroque is once again preparing a cycle of baroque and classical music called Bacha na Mozarta! (translator's note: in Czech, this is a pun meaning both "Bach on Mozart!" and "Beware of Mozart!") The opening concert of the season will offer The Dream, an operatic pantomime by Michael Haydn with Arnošt Goldflam as the narrator. more
The Hausopera Association continues its Trilogy for the City
Hausopera will present two short operas connected with important functionalist monuments in Brno. The performances will take place in the 'Zemanova kavárna a cukrárna' ('Zeman's Café and Confectionery Shop') and in the 'Knihkupectví Michala Ženíška' ('Michal Ženíšek's Bookshop'). The venues, well-known to everyone, will appear in a new light and context during the opera shows. Jiří Nekvasil undertook the directing of both pieces. more
Metronome Blues are sending their album Garden Of Eden out into the world. They will release it in their domestic Kabinet Múz (Cabinet of Muses), where they will also present their new line-up. Garden Of Eden is the fourth serial album of the band Metronome Blues. It was released digitally in the spring of 2020 during "lockdown" in New Zealand. Its vinyl version will be released in October by the Brno label Kabinet Records. more
You can listen to music of Leoš Janáček in the streets of Brno
With the upcoming Janáček Brno 2020 festival, dummies of Leoš Janáček with his dog Čipera started to appear in the streets of Brno. A QR code is placed on each of the dummies, which, after scanning, will play a sample of his works. more
Zdenek Merta at the piano with Ondřej Pivec
The musical evenings entitled Zdenek Merta u klavíru v Městském divadle Brno ('Zdenek Merta Playing the Piano at the Brno City Theatre') are continuing. The concert to be held in October promises Ondřej Pivec as a guest – a pianist, composer and winner of a American Grammy Award for 2017. more
The Metropolitan Opera is returning to Czech cinemas, offering archive recordings in the autumn
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Metropolitan Opera will not start the season until January of the following year. Traditional cinematographic broadcasts will now make use of the Met's archive. In the autumn, three classic works of Italian opera and one bonus screening are planned. more
The Brno Philharmonic is preparing a double premiere. It will perform a composition by Kurt Schwertsik in his presence
The Brno Philharmonic is preparing one global and one Czech premiere for this week. However, there will be one change to the programme: as opposed to the original one, Mozart's Symphony No. 32 in G major will be played instead of the previously announced composition Angels of Sorrow by Giya Kancheli. Furthermore, works of Josef Haydn and Kurt Schwertsik will be featured; the latter will attend this premiere in person. 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
