What lies within Sound? This year’s New Music Exhibition will feature spectral music. Musicians will be guided by street sounds, chess players, and recordings of brain activity.

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PRESS RELEASE What can be the starting point for a musical composition? The human voice, a single tone, sounds from the surrounding environment, a synthesizer or an algorithm? Where does the composer end and technology begin? The festival Exposition of New Music will offer answers to these questions; this year’s edition bears the subtitle Ars…

Špilberk Festival: practical information

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Dear listeners, Our Špilberk Open-Air Festival is fast approaching. From August 17 to 23, we’ll be gathering under the open sky in the large courtyard of Špilberk Castle. Here’s some practical information that will come in handy before you head to the concert.   WHEN TO ARRIVE Concerts start at 8:00 p.m.; the courtyard opens…

The Brno Philharmonic presents its 71st season, subtitled “All Roads Lead to Brno.” The lineup includes Laurie Anderson, David Robertson, and Daniel Müller-Schott

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PRESS RELEASE    Brno, April 28th 2026 The Brno Philharmonic is kicking off its 71st concert season with a clear message: All roads lead to Brno. This refers to the composers who left their mark on the city during their visits—Mozart, Brahms, Mahler, R. Strauss—and whose works will be featured in the new season. It…

The Brno Philharmonic celebrates Pēteris Vasks’s 80th birthday. It will present his chamber and large-scale works, complemented by music from the Oscar-winning *Hamlet* starring Simon Callow

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PRESS RELEASE Brno, March 16, 2026 Pēteris Vasks, one of the world’s most prominent composers, will celebrate his 80th birthday in April. The Brno Philharmonic will join in the celebrations with three concerts. “First a chamber concert at Besední dům, followed by two large-scale concerts at the Janáček Theatre. This is our favorite and proven…

Filharmonie Brno is looking forward to a record-breaking March with seventeen concerts and the start of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music

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PRESS RELEASE February 27, 2026 The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra has an exceptionally busy month ahead. In March, it will play or organize a total of seventeen concerts, covering a very wide range. In addition to smaller and chamber concerts at the Besední dům, it is preparing large orchestral evenings at the Janáček Theater, two jazz…

Clarinetist Sharon Kam will perform twice in one evening

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PRESS RELEASE  Brno, February 2, 2026 The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is preparing two concerts this week, featuring world-renowned clarinetist Sharon Kam as soloist under the baton of internationally acclaimed conductor Ivor Bolton. The program, entitled Three Stars of German Romanticism, will feature works by Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Johannes Brahms. “The…

Filharmonie Brno is releasing a recording of a unique performance of the opera The Emperor of Atlantis, or The Denial of Death. It is thus joining the dialogue on the threats of totalitarian power

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PRESS RELEASE                                                                                                         Brno, January 26, 2026 An emperor who usurps the right to decide on the life and death of people, to take their souls. And Death, who is so offended by this that he decides to take revenge on both him and humanity: he will not allow anyone to die. This is the…

Closing of the Ticket office

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Dear listeners, due to a planned power outage, our ticket office will be closed tomorrow. Online sales will continue to function, so you can purchase tickets online. We look forward to seeing you again at the ticket office on Wednesday from 1 p.m. Thank you for your understanding.