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The Brno Philharmonic is heading to Carnegie Hall. They will open their American tour with a Glass Symphony
The Brno Philharmonic is preparing for an American tour. It will give the New York premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12 “Lodger” at Carnegie Hall with the composer in attendance. The Brno Philharmonic will play seven concerts in seven venues overseas in February. more
Brno - UNESCO City of Music presents the Year of Choirs
The Brno - UNESCO City of Music Office is launching a multi-year project that aims to map Brno’s amateur music scene. This year will be the Year of Choirs. The biggest event is being prepared for the European Music Day. Several dozen Brno choirs will perform on the stage at the Cabbage (Zelný) Market as part of a large-scale happening. more
The Brno Marathon of Music 2023 festival presented the first part of its programme today. In August, Omar Sosa as the festival’s resident pianist, the band Dubioza Kolektiv, and the Estonian duo Puuluup will perform in Brno. more
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno will celebrate Petr Fiala’s 80th birthday with a concert
Petr Fiala, founder, choirmaster, and director of the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, will celebrate his jubilee. Fiala’s Stabat Mater will also be performed during the festive concert, which will take place in the Besední dům. The concert will be conducted by conductor Robert Kružík. more
Cultural newsletter of the MMB Department of Culture for March 2023
The Brno cultural newsletter brings you an overview of events and opportunities in the coming period concerning theatres, clubs, festivals, and cultural events in Brno. more
Jiří Slavík released a new album Nostalgia. Today he will present it in Brno
Anděl Award winner and acclaimed double bassist Jiří Slavík introduces a new international trio. Paul Clarvis, the percussionist of the legendary Abbey Road studio, will be on drums, and Clarvis’ long-time collaborator, the leading English pianist Liam Noble, will be the third. The Noble-Slavík-Clarvis trio released the album Nostalgia on the Bivak Records label of the JazzFestBrno festival, which they will present today at the Cabaret des Péchés club in Brno. more
The 30th Easter Festival of Sacred Music is subtitled Transformation
The Easter Festival of Sacred Music enters its thirtieth year and is subtitled Transformation (Přetváření). It will open with a new setting of the once famous Stabat Mater by Brno Cathedral organist František Musil, in which soloists, the Brno Philharmonic and five choirs under the direction of Tomáš Krejčí will join forces. more
NdB will perform the opera Falstaff directed by Ondřej Havelka
Ondřej Havelka returns to the Brno opera stage after a long break and with him comes the comedy opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi. Falstaff returns to the Janáček Opera repertoire after fifty years. The soloists will be Spanish baritone Luis Cansina, Italian baritone Damiano Salerno, Pavla Vykopalová, Václava Krejčí Housková, Markéta Cukrová, Jana Hrochová and others. more
Easter concerts at the MdB: Iva Bittová, Markéta Cukrová, and Vilém Veverka will perform
Easter concerts will take place at the Brno Municipal Theatre on Friday and Saturday during the Easter weekend. This year’s guests include Iva Bittová, Ondřej Vaníček, Markéta Cukrová, Vilém Veverka, and the Ars Brunensis choir with the Brno Municipal Theatre Orchestra under the direction of choirmaster and chief conductor Dan Kalousek. more
The Brno National Theatre has announced the titles for the 2023/2024 season
The Brno National Theatre has presented the upcoming premieres for the 2023/2024 season. Among the opera productions on the programme next season will be, for example, The Jacobin or Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. Ballet will be represented by Coco Chanel, choreographed by Mario Radačovský, and The Vigil, a follow-up to the award-winning 4 Elements. The upcoming season will be dedicated to the Year of Czech Music 2024, which commemorates the anniversary of composers ending with a four and generally focuses on Czech music. 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
