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Latest: Jana Šrejma Kačírková wins a Thalia Award
Jana Šrejma Kačírková, a soloist of the Janáček Opera, was given a Thalia Award 2020 this evening. more
The JazzFestBrno festival has announced the first names of performers for the coming anniversary year. The 20th season of this international festival will start in March and its programme so far boasts names such as Chick Corea, Vicente Amigo, Cécile McLorin Salvant and the GoGo Penguin trio. more
Cultural Newsletter of the Department of Culture of the Brno City Municipality
The Brno Cultural Newsletter provides an overview of events and changes that concern theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno in the coming period. more
The Czech Ensemble Baroque Quintet is preparing an ANTI-VIR-tual concert
One of the scheduled November concerts of the Czech Ensemble Baroque has only 5 performers, which is the maximum number in which singing can be done even in these times. Members of the Czech Ensemble Baroque's vocal quintet were thus able to meet and rehearse a concert. You can watch it on YouTube. more
NdB director Martin Glaser has been elected to lead the prestigious Opera Europa organisation
At the November online conference entitled "Survival of the Fittest", Martin Glaser – manager of the National Theatre Brno – was elected to the Opera Europa’s management. more
Angels' Saturday: An Advent online concert by Martina Komínková
The Brno-based flautist and music teacher Martina Komínková is preparing the streaming of her solo concert, which will also feature her original work from the new CD Resonance. more
A concert from the "Barbara Maria Willi presents…" series will take place online. Josef Špaček will appear as a guest artist
The Brno – City of Music portal in cooperation with the "Barbara Maria Willi presents ..." cycle will offer you the livestreaming of a concert from the Convent of the Merciful Brethren. Violin virtuoso and one of today’s most sought-after Czech artists, Josef Špaček, will appear as a guest performer. Together with Barbara Maria Willi, they will perform compositions by Bach, Biber and Corelli. more
Brno as a European centre of world music, headed by Milan Tesař
After almost thirty years, Brno has replaced the German capital Berlin as the main centre of the European panel of radio music publicists World Music Charts Europe (WMCE). From Berlin public radio, where the founder of this platform, Johannes Theurer, worked until 30 November 2020, the centre of WMCE's activities is moving to the Brno headquarters of Radio Proglas. Milan Tesař, one of its two current Czech members and head of the music section of Proglas, became the new secretary of the panel starting from 1 December. more
Přání. New single by Nebeztebe
The single Přání (Wish) by the Brno-based Nebeztebe band presents their upcoming album Zásobování duše (Supply of the Soul). more
Brno's Vilém Spilka Quartet is preparing a concert at the renowned jazz club Cantina Bentivoglio in the Italian city of Bologna. The concert will take place thanks to the cooperation of the "UNESCO Creative Cities of Music", among which Brno and Bologna belong. Both cities expressed their support for the event. 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
