PRESS RELEASE Brno, November 4, 2025 Arvo Pärt, one of the world’s greatest contemporary composers, celebrated his 90th birthday in September. He is one of the composers regularly featured by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, which is why it has prepared two events this week to mark his anniversary: the Brno launch of the book Between Two…
PRESS RELEASE Brno, October 1, 2025 For twenty-five years, Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say has been captivating audiences and critics around the world. He captivated the Brno audience in the spring of 2014. “His concert was hopelessly sold out, so for the first time in the modern history of the philharmonic, we seated listeners…
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE FILHARMONIE BRNO ORCHESTRA invites applications for THE POSITION OF SECOND FLUTE PLAYER WITH THE DUTY OF PICCOLO FLUTE AND ALTO FLUTE The auditions are taking place in the concert hall of Besední dům, Komenského náměstí 8, Brno, Czech Republic, at 9 a.m. on December 19th 2025. AUDITION CONDITIONS: 1st round: Mozart:…
Dear listeners, the concerts in the castle courtyard will take place weather permitting. This means that we will play even in light rain; the concert will only be canceled in the event of a severe storm or heavy rain and wind. Please do not use umbrellas, as they will prevent others from seeing the stage.…
PRESS RELEASE August 5, 2025 The Moravian Autumn International Music Festival, whose 53rd edition will take place from October 12 to 26, will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras. Brno will welcome top British orchestras in which he performed. At the opening concert, Mackerras’ daughter Catherine will present an award…
The Filharmonie Brno is entering its 70th anniversary season, symbolised by the word ‘connection’. It connects the past and the future. It also connects the concerts themselves, which are not individual musical experiences, but a network woven from the ties between composers, compositions, soloists and anniversaries. ‘This year, soloists from among our musicians and works…
Dear listeners, dear listeners, due to the illness of soprano Lady Bočková, we will have to change the line-up for the Thursday and Friday concerts. The soprano part will be taken by Jana Sibera, who performed with us in December at the Janáček Theatre in Handel’s Messiah. We thank Jana very much and wish Lada a…
Dear listeners, dear listeners, due to health reasons, the originally announced soloist Ivan Ilić will not perform at the concerts this Thursday and Friday. However, we have managed to secure a full-time replacement – the excellent Czech pianist Jan Bartos, who is one of the few contemporary performers (if not the only one besides Ivan…
PRESS RELEASE Brno, 26 November 2024program The Filharmonie Brno is about to present its biggest concert project of the season , The Fabulous Mahler. It will be performed this Thursday and Friday at the Janáček Theatre, and on Sunday 8 December at the Musikverein in Vienna. “The centrepiece of the programme, Gustav Mahler’ s…
Dear Listeners, Since the Špilberk Festival concerts are held in the open air, we would like to inform you about the Organiser’s Rules in case of bad weather. . the concert is not cancelled in advance even in case of negative weather forecast, the decision to cancel the concert is made at the time of the…
PRESS RELEASE Brno, 17 May 2024 90, 200, 150. Three numbers marking important anniversaries have significantly shaped Filharmonie Brno’s upcoming 69th season. “The number 90 refers to the season’s most important project, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied/Song of Lamentation. We will be performing this in its original three-movement form on the day exactly ninety years…
The composition “Happy Birthday Maestro” was written as a gift for the 80th birthday of the Filharmonie Brno’s chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies. We chose the opening from Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 80 in D minor as the main theme. We approached several Czech and international composers who have collaborated with Dennis Russell Davies in recent years…
