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Fléda Music Club celebrates twenty years
The Fléda Club celebrates twenty years of its existence this year. For this festive season, subtitled FXX, it brings a number of new additions as well as refurbished premises. As the organizer, it will present the new MAUSHAUS festival at the Brno Exhibition Centre for the first time. more
Evgeni Irshai will celebrate his landmark birthday together with Milan Paľa
Evgeni Irshai is one of the most important contemporary Slovak composers. This year he celebrates his 70th. On this occasion, his joint concert with Milan Paľa will take place in the hall of the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy. The concert will feature works by the personality. more
The Cotatcha Orchestra, a big band from Brno, is preparing another concert in a series presenting the work and anniversaries of famous jazzmen. The Croatian singer Daniel Caccia will perform with them as a guest this time. Traditional as well as new arrangements will feature works by trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, who was born 120 years ago, singer Jon Hendricks, who would have turned 100 this year, and pianist Stan Kenton, ten years older than Hendricks. more
Berlin-based producer Boys Noize and the Fléda Club’s anniversary celebrations
German DJ and producer Boys Noize will present his new album +/- in Brno. This prominent personality of the electronic scene will perform at the Fléda Club as part of the celebration of the club’s 20th anniversary. The work of this musician, innovative in terms of genre, is on the border of techno, house and electro-pop. more
Janáček Opera Brno to perform The Greek Passion
The great choral opera – The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinů – returns to the stage of the Janáček Theatre. Members of Český akademický sbor (Czech Academic Choir) and Dětský sbor Brno (Brno Children’s Choir) will join the ranks of the Brno National Theratre´s Janáček Opera choir. The musical production is the work of conductor Robert Kružík. Directed by Jiří Heřman, for whom The Greek Passion is the third production of Martinů’s work, after The Miracles of Mary and The Epic of Gilgamesh, the piece will feature, in the main roles, soloists of the Brno National Theratre´s Janáček Opera as well as its regular guests Peter Berger (Manolios), Pavla Vykopalová (Katarina), Jan Šťáva (Grigoris), David Szendiuch (Fotis), Ondřej Koplík (Yannakos) and others. more
The New Music Encounters Plus festival starts today. The festival runs until December
Thirteen concerts will take place at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno and the Divadlo na Orlí (Orlí Street Theatre) as part of the 24th annual festival, which begins today. YouTube streaming will also be available. more
National Theatre Brno: Janáček Opera announces auditions for the opera choir
Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno is looking for new singers for the opera’s choir – the tenor voice group. The audition is announced for the end of November. more
The Brno Philharmonic presents one of the highlights of the season: Schnittke’s Faust Cantata and Iva Bittová
Edvard Elgar’s The Black Knight and Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata “Seid nüchtern und wachet” – the programme to be performed over two evenings at the Janáček Theatre is described as one of the highlights of the 66th philharmonic season. Two dramas: a horror story and a battle for the human soul. And two pieces of work with extensive casting, with nearly two hundred performers on stage. The Mephistopheles part will again be taken by Iva Bittová. The concert is conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. more
The 21st annual jazz festival is characterized by big bands and connecting world-renowned musicians with Czech ones. Among the performers will be Maria Schneider’s Orchestra, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra in conjunction with Dan Bárta, pianist Brad Mehldau in a Bach-based programme with the Brno Philharmonic, double bass player Christian McBride’s quintet and guitarist Lionel Loueke, both solo and in a project with his Czech musical guests. more
The Brno Philharmonic is hiring for the position of Marketing Manager
Interested candidates can apply for the post of Marketing Manager until Sunday 14 November 2021. The anticipated start date for this position is January next year. 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
