Martinů Festtage 2022
The 26th edition of the Martinů Festtage will take place in Basel from 23 October 23 to 6 November 2022.→ More
Nikolay Biryukov won the Martinů Prize at Concertino Praga
Young russian pianist Nikolay Biryukov won the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Prize at the Concertino Praga competition. The prize is awarded for best rendition of composer's piece. The jury appreciated Biryukov's interpretation of Dupák from Three Czech Dances, H 154.→ More
BBC Proms | Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Friday 5 August 2022. The chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Semyon Bychkov and the Labèque Sisters will perform a double piano concerto by Martinů at the famous BBC Proms festival.→ More
Bohuslav Martinů Institute at the IAML Congress
The employees of Bohuslav Martinů Institute are taking part in the Congress organized by International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) that takes place in Prague 24-29 July. The Institute will also welcome the congress participants and present its library and way of work.→ More
New issue of Martinů Revue about newly found correspondence and photos
First issue of Martinů Revue in 2022 documents the relationship between Bohuslav Martinů and the diplomat Vladimír Vaněk. Their newly available correspondence and photos of the composer from Vaněk’s archive shed a new light and the late Italian period of Martinů’s life. The eminent Czech diplomat and the composer met as young men already in Paris where they even shared an apartment. They met again and the end of their lives in Rome. Around fifty newly discovered photos of the working composer were shot there. The new issue of the magazine reflects their relationship in an article by Martin Ledvinka. It contains a text from the Vaněk himself, “I went to Vieux-Moulin for a penknife”, in which he remembers meeting with Charlotte after the composer’s death.→ More
Martinů pieces performed at a unique concert celebrating the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU
Musicians from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and the Belgian Luca School of Arts performed together a unique concert celebrating the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU on 3rd July 2022. The concert was held simultaneously in the Martinů Hall in Prague and Kamermuziekzaal in Leuven. They were interconnected by the unique technology of the CESNET association, which transmits sound and high-definition video with minimal delay.→ More
Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Medal was awarded to Ludvík Kašpárek
The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Medal was awarded to the musicologist, publicist, and dramaturge PhDr. Ludvík Kašpárek at the occasion of his jubilee. The Board of Directors has given the award and diploma on 14th June 2022.→ More
Aleš Březina speaks about Martinů recordings on German Radio
The director of Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Mgr. Aleš Březina, Ph.D, spoke about recordings of pieces by Bohuslav Martinů on the program Interpretationen of the German radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He spoke with the host Elisabeth Hahn about the composition and recordings comparison of three compositions related to the war period, Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani, H 271, Field Mass, H 279, and Memorial to Lidice, H 296.→ More
The Martinů Award at the Prague Spring Competition goes to the clarinetist Anna Sysová
The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Award for the best rendition of B. Martinů piece was won by the clarinetist Anna Sysová at the Prague Spring Competition. The price was handed over by doc. Irvin Venyš, the director of Bohuslav Martinů Foundation.→ More
Martinů fest Polička 2022
The 25th year of the traditional Martinů fest Polička festival will take place from 12 to 19 May 2022. The composer's work, but not only his, will be commemorated by a lot of concerts and the accompanying program.→ More
Czech soprano Kateřina Kněžíková wins BBC Music Magazine Award
Czech soprano Kateřina Kněžíková wins BBC Music Magazine Award, also with Martinů music!!!→ More
Josef Špaček | The Voice of Rare Violin
Thursday 28 April 2022. Martinů's first violin concerto is said by its Ostrava performer Josef Špaček to be technically demanding, even "borderline written". The orchestra will be conducted by the chief conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Vasily Sinai.→ More
Serenades and Harpsichord Concerto | NeoKlasik orchestra
Monday, 25 April 2022, 8 p.m. NeoKlasik orchestr plays Serenades No. 1 and 3 and Concerto for Harpsichord and Small Orchestra→ More
Martinů's Duos for violin and cello on new CD by Jamník and Špaček
Paths – crossing and diverging, those we choose ourselves and those that are predestined and inevitable: through this prism the violinist Josef Špaček and the cellist Tomáš Jamník view the music by Leoš Janáček, Gideon Klein, Bohuslav Martinů and Ervín Schulhoff written within a mere 35 years of the 20th century. Supraphon will release their album Paths on 22 April 2022 on CD and in digital formats within international distribution.→ More
La revue de cuisine | Czech Chamber Music Society
4 April 2022 The combination of suites from a 1927 jazz ballet and 1918 ballet music for seven instruments is not accidental; both date from about the same time and share chamber instrumentation requiring excellent performers.→ More
To the Paris episode of Adolf Loos and Jan Zrzavý
23 March 2022 Online lecture by PhDr. Dagmar Černoušková on Adolf Loose's contacts with Jan Zrzavý, Bohuslav Martinů and other artists in interwar Paris.→ More
Current exhibitions
These days, it is possible to visit two music exhibitions, which also present the work of Bohuslav Martinů.→ More
Songs on One Page recorded in orchestral version by Jiří Teml
Sopranist Karolína Janů recorded Songs on One Page, H 294 by Bohuslav Martinů in orchestral version created by Jiří Teml. The soloist sings with Pilsen Philharmonic under the baton of Chuhei Iwasaki. The new CD was released by German publishing house Ars Produktion. The composer Jiří Teml is former member of Supervisiory board of Bohuslav Martinů Foundation. The orchestral arrange of Songs was written in 1997, Teml instrumented also Antonín Dvořák’s Gypsy Melodies, op. 55, that is on the new CD too.→ More
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