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In mid-May, a festival will take place on the outskirts of Brno, attracting music, theatre, slam poetry, and books. It aims to celebrate female authorship across musical genres and artistic types. more
Easter with NdB Junior Ballet 2
On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Reduta Theatre will host a programme by the Brno National Theatre (NdB 2) Junior Ballet called Adam and Eve / REM / Pampúšik. more
VUS Ondráš is looking for a clarinet player
The Ondráš Military Art Ensemble (VUS Ondráš) is filling a position in the professional part of the ensemble. The ensemble is looking for a clarinet player. The selection process is announced for the beginning of May 2023. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa will premiere Dandelion with Milan Paľa
The Ensemble Opera Diversa is preparing another concert for solo violin. The soloist of the evening will be Slovak violin virtuoso Milan Paľa, who will perform the premiere of Dandelion by Canadian-American composer Linda Catlin Smith. more
One of the icons of punk Public Image Ltd will perform this autumn in the Brno club Fléda. The British band will present their new album End of World. It comes out after almost a decade and will honour the memory of the late John Lydon’s wife. more
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
The Husovický dvorek festival enters its 22nd year this year. The family programme will start on Sunday with the DNO theatre with the performance The Cunning Little Vixen and an exhibition of Vendula Chalánková. The festival will close with a concert by Martin Kyšperský. more
Marko Ivanović and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra received the Angel Award
On Saturday 15 April, the Czech Academy of Music announced the winners of the 2022 Anděl Awards. The awards are given in a total of fourteen categories, two of which belong to classical music and jazz. The winner in the classical category was conductor Marko Ivanović, who works at the Janáček Opera in Brno, together with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. more
Audition for dancers for the opera production “The Jacobin”
The National Theatre in Brno (NdB) is looking for dancers for a new opera production of Dvořák’s “Jakobín”. The production will be created under the direction of Martin Glaser, with a premiere on 8 October 2023. more
Dance and Music Evenings with Ondráš will visit Špilberk again
For the fourth time, the Ondráš Military Art Ensemble will present the Evenings with Ondráš benefit series. During two evenings in June, this artistic ensemble will play and dance the best of its repertoire in the open air in the courtyard of Brno’s Špilberk Castle. Together with them this year, the Pilsen folk ensemble Mladina will perform. 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
