Duben Květen Červen Červenec
1/6Thursday 19:00Ostrava, Divadlo Antonína Dvořáka Opening concertThe opening concert will be marked by two premieres: Principal conductor of JFO Vassily Sinaisky will encounter the Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček for the first time and a young exceptional violinist, winner of the Eurovision competition Daniel Matejča will perform Dvořák´s violin concert for the first time in his steep career.
2/6Friday 19:00Opava, kostel sv. Vojtěcha (St. Vojtěch Church)Jewels of the Czech and German organ musicThe 5th Days of Silesian OrgansOrgan recital of Pavel Svoboda could be called an evening of contrasts. He sets Masters of the German baroque and the Viennese classicism against the legends of the Czech music of the 20th century, including Leoš Janáček.
3/6Saturday 19:00Ludgeřovice, kostel sv. Mikuláše (St. Nicholas Church)Liturgical and secular organThe 5th Days of Silesian OrgansEva Bublová, one of the best contemporary Czech organists, will perform on the best organ in our diocese, a great and imposing programme composed of liturgical works as well as those positively secular ones.
4/6Sunday 19:00Ostrava, Landek Park – Compressor HallNikol Bóková QuartetJazz eveningNikol Bóková started her musical career by studies of the classical music – piano play.
6/6Tuesday 19:00Ostrava, kostel sv. Václava (St. Wenceslas Church)Hindemith and Penderecki return to Ostrava!Viola recitalWe do not encounter a solo viola very often.
8/6Thursday 19:00Ostrava, DK PokladMaster instrument in Maestro´s handsSymphonic concertConcert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of beginning of the broadcasting of the Czech Radio.
9/6Friday 19:00Příbor, kostel sv. Valentina (St. Valentine Church)Daniel Müller-SchottCello recitalGreat sonatas of giants of German music, Beethoven, and Brahms, will be performed by Daniel Müller-Schott in one evening in the inspirational milieu of the St. Valentine Church in Příbor.
10/6Saturday 18:00Opava, kostel sv. Václava (St. Wenceslas Church)Lutheran baroque EuropeChamber concertNot even Johann Sebastian Bach did compose only the religious music as show cantatas presented today.
12/6Monday 19:00Ostrava, BrickHouse DOVThe evening of incoherent connectionsChamber concertThis festival evening could be labelled as the feast of Ostrava. Karel Dohnal launched his successful artistic career at the Ostrava conservatoire, Eliška Novotná is a teacher at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava and a much sought after piano accompaniment and Sylva Smejkalová, today working at HAMU in Prague, has her origin and family roots closely connected with Ostrava, too.
13/6Tuesday 19:00Ostrava, Národní zemědělské muzeum DOV (National Agriculture Museum)Crows – Musical Movement PerformanceFestival crossoverThey live with us side by side as well as in the forests, far from the people.
14/6Wednesday 20:00Ostrava, katedrála Božského SpasiteleStabat materCantata eveningStabat mater by Antonín Dvořák, cantata for solos, mixed choir, and orchestra, is one of the most beautiful and powerful works among world musical compositions.
16/6 – 18/6 Fri – Sun Hukvaldy, ZŠ Leoše Janáčka (Primary school of Leoš Janáček, Hukvaldy)Masterclass with Kateřina Kněžíková and Ivo KahánekVocal and piano output of Leoš JanáčekCourse for art school students.
18/6Sunday 10:00 Ostrava, Zámek Vítkovice (Chateau Vítkovice)Our good compatriots, or famous Czechs in ViennaSunday matinee with brunchImaginary meeting of an architect Adam Loos, a publicist Karel Kraus, a poet Rainer Maria Rilke and a painter Oskar Kokoschka in a Viennese café with an inevitable piano.
18/6Sunday 16:00 Hukvaldy – ZŠ Leoše Janáčka (Primary school of Leoš Janáček Hukvaldy)Concert of participants to the Masterclass with Kateřina Kněžíková and Ivo KahánekConcerts of participants to the first and the second Masterclasses were very successful and young beginning performers gave good account of themselves thanks to a leadership of their masters.
20/6Tuesday 19:00Ostrava, Evangelic Christ´s ChurchWith songs around the worldchoral concert CANCELED South Korean artists conquer the musical world. They win many interpretational competitions; they are members of prestigious opera companies and orchestras.
21/6Wednesday 19:00Ostrava, DK PokladGreetings of the European NorthSymphonic concertMemory of the stay of Bedřich Smetana in Gothenburg and a famous and popular piano concert by Edvard Hagerup Grieg performed by Christian Ihle Hadland, Norwegian pianist of a world renown.
24/6Saturday 15:00Hubert – Hukvaldy Bishop´s Environmental ResortDuvetsOpera performance for childrenChamber comic opera by Jiří Najvar is primarily intended for a children audience but it will enchant also the adult audience for sure.
24/6Saturday 17:00Hukvaldy, a game preserve – vicinity of the amphitheatreLeoš´s art and music workshops1/7Saturday 15:00Hukvaldy, kostel sv. Maxmiliána (St. Maxmilian Church)
24/6Saturday 19:00Hukvaldy, a game preserve – the amphitheatreTher Gingerbread CottageOpera performanceWe all know a fairy tale about the Gingerbread Cottage. But who knows its musical form? Jan Kučera felt himself into children audience and performers and composed this special opera.
25/6Sunday 18:00Hukvaldy, a game preserve – the amphitheatreHarafica Symphonicor a peculiar quest for folklore in the wake of Leoš JanáčekTogether with a cimbalom band Harafica and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, we shall set forth a journey on the Janáček´s path to the Moravian folk songs that he loved to collect, write down and get inspired by them.
26/6Monday 19:00 Ostrava, Gong DOV70 years in all its gloryGala concert for the 70th anniversary of foundation of the Janáček Conservatoire in Ostrava (JKO)Janáček Conservatoire has existed in Ostrava – although a name was changed several times – for seventy years already.
27/6Tuesday 18:00 Hukvaldy, a game preserve – the amphitheatreClosing concertOratorian evening – The Return of TobiasOratorio The Return of Tobias by Franz Joseph Haydn with Adam Plachetka in a star part and staged by an erudite Roman Válek, systematically working with the classicist music, will be a grand finale of this festival year.
1/7Saturday 15:00Hukvaldy, kostel sv. Maxmiliána (St. Maxmilian Church)Festival epilogue with a toastTraditional festival epilogue will – with the exception of a transcription of the overture by Mozart – belong to the Czech music and, of course, to Leoš Janáček.