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The Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno will open the new season with a concert at the Besední dům
The Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno opens its 33rd concert season and the 18th year of the Subscription Concert Series. The first subscription concert of this season will take place on Sunday at the Besední dům in Brno. The concert programme includes Symphony in G minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Missa solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven. more
The Moravian Autumn will open with a light piano
The International Music Festival Moravian Autumn begins next Sunday and will open with Heinrich's work entitled Singing the Spirit of the Wild Forest or Glimpses of Yankee Doodle. Anthony Philip Heinrich's "American Beethoven" will be followed by works from Beethoven, Pärt and Scriabin - his Prometheus for light piano. Pianist Polina Osetinskaja will take the solo part, the Brno Philharmonic will be accompanied by the Slovak Philharmonic Choir with the evening being led by chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies. more
An International Musicology Colloquium on the Czechoslovak Interwar Opera Avant-Garde will take place in Brno
The 57th International Musicology Colloquium will take place in Brno, this year under the title New Paths in Opera. It is organised by the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University (FFMU) together with the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera through the Musica non grata project. World renowned figures from the ranks of musicologists, conductors, opera directors, dramaturges and representatives of music producers will discuss avant-garde musical theatre of the first half of the 20th century with an emphasis on "Entartete Musik". The conference will be streamed live on Musica non grata and FFMU platforms. The project includes the opening concert of the Brno Contemporary Orchestra season. more
The ReConnect conference is part of the Batch club festival. A diverse range of music professionals will gather in Brno for three days to discuss key topics and issues in the music industry. more
The Thalia Award makes its way to Brno. It was awarded to Jaroslav Březina
Jaroslav Březina received the Thalia Award for his role as Herod in the opera Salome. more
The Jacobin will launch a season dedicated to Czech music
The next two seasons of the Janáček Opera at the National Theatre Brno will be in the spirit of the Year of Czech Music 2024. This year's first premiere will therefore belong to the Czech opera The Jacobin by Antonín Dvořák. Thanks to the OperaVision project, the opera production directed by Martin Glaser will reach audiences all over the world. Czech Television will record the performance for the CT ART channel. more
Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and Milan Paľa to close the Moravian Autumn festival
The 52nd Moravian Autumn festival is now coming to an end. On Sunday, it will close at the Janáček Theatre with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century. The evening’s soloist Milan Paľa will perform his Viola Concerto and, in the second half, Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 2. more
October 2023 Culture Newsletter from the BCH Department of Culture
The Brno Culture Newsletter brings you an overview of what is happening in theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno. more
Guitarist Milan Bátor to launch an album with Beatles songs in Brno
The theme of guitarist Milan Bátor’s second album is the legendary The Beatles in instrumental arrangements for solo guitar, written by Italian guitarist Mario Gangi. The album, entitled I Beatles, will be launched in the Löw-Beer Villa in Brno. more
Members of one of the most influential bands in rock history, the British King Crimson, will present The Crimson Marathon project, created exclusively for the Czech festival Prague Music Performance, at Brno’s Sono Centre. The aim of the project, created with the consent of the group’s founder Robert Fripp, is to present the individual members of King Crimson through their own projects and through the work of the group itself. 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
