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The mezzosoprano Magdalena Kožená together with Brno – city of music
UNESCO and the ZUŠ Open festival prepared the exceptional benefit concert. The song recital will take place on Monday, 13 December at 7 p.m. in Brno's Besední dům and will also be available as a live video broadcast. The purpose of the evening is to support and raise the profile of the unique Czech system of Primary Art Schools (ZUŠ). more
Percussion Instrument Festival: Nick Woud, Katarzyna Myćka, Aurélien Gignoux and more
The International Biennial Percussion Instrument Festival returns to the Orlí Street Theatre, but only after three years due to last year’s pandemic situation. Students from music schools in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will meet in Brno to exchange experiences. The event offers five concerts for the public over three days, a gala opening of a photographic exhibition and the opportunity to try out various percussion instruments as part of the “PerkuSeanse” project. Students are then invited to workshops with well-known percussionists. more
Notes of a Wandering Folklorist: Author’s reading by Jiří Plocek
The book Zápisky potulného lidopisce (Notes of a Wandering Folklorist) by Jiří Plocek was published last year. The Jiří Mahen Library, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, will host this author’s reading from two parts of the book. more
Brno Cultural Newsletter presents a summary of events and changes relating to theatres, clubs, festivals and, overall, cultural events in Brno in the upcoming period. This time, it also focuses on Brno’s candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2028. more
Stone mantras under the mammoth: Brno Contemporary Orchestra’s concert at Anthropos
Brno Contemporary Orchestra will once again perform in a non-traditional space. This time they will play under the direction of conductor Pavel Šnajdr at Anthropos in Brno. They will present spectacular compositions by Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, a post-modern chamber cantata by Miloslav Ištvan, the work entitled Hours of the Past by the recently deceased Lithuanian composer Bronius Kutavičius and a composition by Michal Rataj, composed directly for BCO. more
Brno Cultural Newsletter presents a summary of events and changes relating to theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno in the upcoming period. Last but not least, it also invites you to join the upcoming session of the Brno Cultural Parliament (Brněnský kulturní parlament). more
Vladimír Maňas and his lecture on Nicolaus Zangius: musician of the late Renaissance
Tomorrow there will be the public habilitation lecture of Vladimír Maňas entitled Nicolaus Zangius: musician of the late Renaissance. Maňas’ book on Nicolaus Zangius and a recording of his compositions was published by Munipress and is available online. more
The Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno’s concert commemorates Saint Ludmila of Bohemia
This year marks the 1100th anniversary of the death of St. Ludmila, an important personality of Czech history and patroness of the Czech lands. To mark the occasion, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno is preparing a concert at the venue of the Community Hall (Besední dům), featuring an oratorio by composer Petr Fiala, The Baptism of Saint Ludmila, set to a text by poet Zuzana Nováková-Renčová. Together with the Choir and the Czech Virtuosi orchestra, actress Simona Postlerová will perform. more
HLUK is topped off by an experiment featuring field recordings: Bariel & TMA, rlung, and Vision of 1994
The series of musical/discourse events known as HLUK, which is put on by the musical platform AlterEcho, is finishing out its third edition in the club Bajkazyl Brno. For the musical section, the pair of Prague electronic musicians Bariel & TMA will perform a live set, as will the originally Russian experimental producer rlung and the ambient project Vision of 1994. more
The international festival Groove Brno is celebrating its 15th birthday at Metro Music Bar and Sono Centrum with musical guests such as the Oakland ensemble Tower of Power, the New York group Spyro Gyra, and the Grammy-nominated band from Boston, Lettuce. 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
