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In the new single Magnum, the big band B-Side Band tackles the hectic pace of everyday life. The clip also features actors Michal Isteník and Jakub Uličník alongside the musicians. The as yet untitled album will be released in autumn this year. The band will start touring in early 2024. more
Incursus barbarorum – composer Jan Novák in exile
The Institute of Musicology at the Faculty of Music is preparing an exhibition entitled Incursus barbarorum, dedicated to the composer Jan Novák and his work in exile. The opening of the exhibition will be introduced by Martin Flašar. more
In mid-February, the Post-Hudba duo released their third long-playing album, My všichni tady a teď (We All Here and Now), on which Dominik Zezula and producer Tomáš Havlen focus on the reality of the lives of today’s thirty-somethings. This can also be heard in the song 90’s kids, for which the band in cooperation with the director Štěpán Svoboda created a new video and invites you to the album launch in Brno’s Kabinet Múz. more
Janáček Opera invites you to a preview of Falstaff
The production team and soloists will present a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, directed by Ondřej Havelka, at the Janáček Opera NdB at the beginning of April. The preview can also be watched online. more
The Dance Career Foundation is organizing a seminar on second careers for dancers in the Czech Republic. more
The Dialogues Minifestival will close with a concert of Schnittke & Rachmaninoff with Milan Paľa
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra has prepared this week's concerts under the title Schnittke & Rachmaninoff. The programme includes two works: Alfred Schnittke's Violin Concerto No. 4 and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A minor. It concludes the Dialogues Minifestival, which the Orchestra prepared for the home audience after its return from the American tour. Friday's concert will be broadcast live on Czech Radio Vltava. more
The musical “Matilda” is based on the book by the English novelist Roald Dahl, published in 1988. The Brno premiere of the musical will be translated and directed by Petr Gazdík. Matilda has three alternate performers in the title role – Anna Bergerová, Maria Juráčková, and Karolina Kabele. Other roles will be played by Jiří Mach, Milan Němec, Kristýna Daňhelová, Dagmar Křížová, Alena Antalová, Johana Gazdíková, and others. The conductors of the production are Dan Kalousek and Ema Mikešková. Choreography was created by Carli Rebecca Jefferson. more
Martin Glaser is Vice-President of Opera Europa
Martin Glaser, director of the National Theatre Brno, was elected vice-president of Opera Europa on 13 January 2023, an association that provides services to professional opera companies and opera festivals across Europe and now has 226 members in 43 countries. more
Jakub Hrůša is the absolute winner of the International Classical Music Award in the Symphonic Music category
Conductor Jakub Hrůša succeeded with the recording that he made with the Bamberger Symphony last year on Deutsche Grammophon. The editors of world music magazines and representatives of international cultural institutions have judged the recording to be the best in the Symphonic Music category. 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
