Calendar
PETROF 160 – Piano as a Technical Masterpiece
The exhibition was created on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the founding of the company, which is one of the leading European manufacturers of acoustic pianos and grand pianos.
Famous Czech composers at the Days of Czech Culture 2024
Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, Martinů - four big names in Czech music that became a world phenomenon. Different generations, style and distinctive handwriting. Their works are different, but they have something in common.
Czechia-Greece: Music inspiration - exhibition by Pavel Piekar
The Year of Czech Music 2024 is being celebrated in Greece not only with a series of concerts, but also with an art exhibition created for this anniversary by Pavel Piekar, chairman of the Association of Czech Graphic Artists.
Anniversary of the Award of the Honorary Doctorate to Leoš Janáček
The Academic Senate at Masaryk University awarded its first honorary doctorate in 1924 to Leoš Janáček, who delivered his famous Spondeo ac polliceor! speech on the occasion. Janáček’s speech is to be delivered by Petr Kotík.
Rymarov Primary School of Arts Concert for the Year of Czech Music
The pupils of the ZUŠ Rýmařov will perform a concert to mark the Year of Czech Music. We can look forward to a musical production, opening of an art exhibition, screening of pupils' films, theatre and dance.
Music trips – Baroque soul: Bach, Händel, Zelenka
The masters of Baroque music will be performed by exceptional musicians from the Moravian-Silesian region: youthful and talented soprano Levková, internationally acclaimed clarinetist Františák, piano virtuoso and organist Kozák.
Theatrical-musical performance "...because of Alma"
A happy childhood in a prominent music family, even marrying a brilliant musician - all this seemed to predestinate the excellent violinist Alma Rosé to a rich and successful life, the main axis of which will forever remain music.
Vítězslav Novák: musical heritage and inspiration
The concert introduces the work of an important and somewhat underrated Czech composer of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Vítězslav Novák, who was a follower of the Smetana and Dvořák schools.
Matinée: Feng-yün Song and Lenka Navrátilová
Pianist Lenka Navrátilová and singer Feng‑yün Song will be performing Bohuslav Martinů’s Songs on One Page and Songs on Two Pages, Leoš Janáček’s Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs and Antonín Dvořák’s In Folk Tone, Op 73.
Music trips – Baroque soul: Bach, Händel, Zelenka
The masters of Baroque music will be performed by exceptional musicians from the Moravian-Silesian region: youthful and talented soprano Levková, internationally acclaimed clarinetist Františák, piano virtuoso and organist Kozák.
Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen - Closing Ceremony of the Festival
The Cunning Little Vixen will celebrate her 100th birthday on 6 November 2024. It will be a spectacular end of the whole festival with the production of the Brno ensemble directed by Jiří Heřman and conducted by Marko Ivanonić.
Concert of the Laureates of the Bohuslava Martinů Foundation Competition
The winners of last year’s contest pianist Pavol Praženica and the Siebeneichener Quartet, will play together with those who will become the laureates of 2024. (Free entry)
Music trips – Baroque soul: Bach, Händel, Zelenka
The masters of Baroque music will be performed by exceptional musicians from the Moravian-Silesian region: youthful and talented soprano Levková, internationally acclaimed clarinetist Františák, piano virtuoso and organist Kozák.
Hudební výlety – Ondřej Ruml & Matej Benko Quintet: Ježek, Voskovec, Werich
Ondřej Ruml, together with the Matej Benko Quintet, will present newly interpreted songs from the Liberated Theatre, featured on his album "Ondřej Ruml Sings Ježek, Voskovec, and Werich".
Stage Project of the Brno Conservatory Opera Studio
The Opera Studio at Brno Conservatory, in co-operation with National Theatre Brno, will present the production Vitka the Fated (A Love Carol) with music by Vítězslava Kaprálová and Bohuslav Martinů as directed by Alexandra Bolfová
Recital: Pavla Vykopalová, Karel Dohnal and Eliška Novotná: Láska a žal
Compositions by Pavel Haas, Miloslav Ištvan, Bohuslav Martinů, Antonín Tučapský, Vítězslav Novák and Leoš Janáček as performed by soprano Pavla Vykopalová, clarinettist Karel Dohnal and pianist Eliška Novotná.
