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The Brno – UNESCO City of Music team recently participated in the evaluation of the annual report for the to date four-year activities of two other member cities – Kingston (Jamaica) and Katowice (Poland). The city of Katowice, which has carried the title of UNESCO Creative City of Music since 2015, has managed to be inscribed on the cultural map of Europe. more
This year, the Brno Music Marathon will welcome Tinatin Tsereteli and Nicola Manzan
As part of this year's international festival Marathon of Music Brno 2019, guests from the partner UNESCO Cities of Music – Tinatin Tsereteli (Hanover) and Nicola Manzan (Bologna) will also appear. more
Magdalena Kožená will sing in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice
The world-renowned mezzo-soprano and native of Brno Magdalena Kožená will perform in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice. Katowice is, just like Brno, a UNESCO City of Music. As part of the recital, which will take place under the auspices of Brno and Katowice, Kožená will be accompanied by her husband – Sir Simon Rattle. more
A new album of AzBest is on its way. The Brno artist has released his first music video featuring the track Do lesa
Active as part of the group Recordinace, the hiphopper of Brno AzBest is working on his first album. He has accompanied his single Do lesa with a new music video. more
Brno City Theatre is getting ready for another series of its summer performances to take place at the Bishop’s Courtyard
Brno City Theatre is planning its programme for the coming summer. The Bishop’s Courtyard (Biskupský dvůr) is going to get busy with multiple theatre shows featuring Alena Antalová, Hana Holišová, Michal Isteník, Boleslav Polívka, Petr Štěpán and other artists. There will be as many as 37 performances presenting six individual theatre plays. Tickets can be booked as of today. more
The Prospects of Research into the Franciscan Culture in Bohemia: An online workshop
Subtitled History – Spirituality – Liturgy – Music and Art, this online workshop is organized by Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The deadline for applications for this one-day event is this Friday, i.e., 15 January 2021. more
A new cultural newsletter issue released by Culture Department, Brno City Municipality
Brno Cultural Newsletter presents a summary of events and changes to relate to theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno in the upcoming period. more
The National Theatre’s opera ensemble will perform at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2021
The Janáček Opera gave a guest performance with success as part of year 45 of the prestigious international Hong Kong Arts Festival with Janáček’s Makropulos Affair earlier in 2017. This time, the Brno opera ensemble is returning to the Hong Kong festival’s stage. Due to the pandemic situation, the festival management decided that foreign ensembles would be participating online – through recordings and live streams. more
Brno City Theatre: The results of the “Wings” poll will be formally announced online this year
Throughout the theatre season, those favouring Brno City Theatre can vote for their best actress, actor, director, designer and composer, as well as their best creative work or individual staging performance. Voting is possible via poll tickets published in the Dokořán theatre magazine or on the theatre’s site. The results will be announced online this year. more
Czech Ensemble Baroque invites you to watch their live streaming on Sunday
Dubbed “Vienna’s Bach”, Johann Josef Fux is known as one of the top world's Baroque composers. On Sunday, Czech Ensemble Baroque will perform the composer’s Missa pro defunctis (Kaiserrequiem K 51-53). The concert from the Brothers of Mercy Convent will be streamed online. 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
