HARMONIA MORAVIAE 2023
HARMONIA MORAVIAE 2023 International Music Festival
21.9. - 2.11. 2023
This festival is organised by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture, the statutory City of Zlín and the Zlín regional authority.
It presents concerts of an exceptionally high standard with top-notch conductors, outstanding soloists and musicians for a broad spectrum of the music-going public. The festival’s 21st season comprising 11 concerts takes place between 21. 9 – 2. 11. 2023, with thematic presentations giving a foretaste of what is to come in celebrating the Year of Czech Music in 2024.
The central theme of the festival reflects the century-long links of Czech music and culture with those of Europe as a whole, demonstrating that Czech music has never been an island unto itself in the heart of Europe. Indeed, it has always been a melting pot of active contacts with the musical world around it. The concerts are individually themed around the music of European localities and Czech composers who worked in those places and thus influenced the musical life there, a nd some programmes reflect the way that European musical and wider cultural movements made their mark on Czech musical life. The festival at this notional interface of Czech and European music presents music not only on the orchestral scale, but also chamber and vocal music, with a range of styles from sacred to folk, film and jazz.
21. 9. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
LETICIA MORENO
HARMONIA MORAVIAE OPENING GALA CONCERT
LETICIA MORENO violin
ROBERT KRUŽÍK conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell), Op. 34
MAURICE RAVEL Tzigane. Rhapsody for violin and orchestra
PABLO DE SARASATE Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25. Concert Fantasy on themes from Carmen for violin and orchestra
MAURICE RAVEL La valse. Choreographic poem for orchestra
A festive gala concert featuring the vivacious Spanish violinist of Peruvian descent Leticia Moreno, whose natural charisma, virtuosity and great power of interpretation captivates audiences and critics alike throughout Europe.
27. 9. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
18.15 hrs, pre-concert talk
MAGYAR TÁNCOK
JAN ČMEJLA piano
LEOŠ SVÁROVSKÝ conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
GYORGY LIGETI Concert Românesc
FRANZ LISZT Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124
JOHANNES BRAHMS Hungarian Dances. selection
An excursion through music to Hungary, a special land of dance where the csardas and the verbunk waft through the fresh Transylvanian country air.
1. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Velehrad Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius
GALA CONCERT
COMMEMORATION OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP ANTONÍN CYRIL STOJAN
STOJAN GYMNÁZIUM CHOIR VELEHRAD
FRANTIŠEK MACEK conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
FRANTIŠEK MACEK Intráda in Homage to Czech Saints, Op. 28
FRANTIŠEK MACEK My Cross! (Můj kříži). Song to Words by Archbishop Antonín Cyril Stojan, Op. 6
ANTON BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major “Romantic“
“I have what I have given to others.“
Gala concert commemorating the extraordinary legacy of Archbishop Antonín Cyril Stojan, who was instrumental in the development of Velehrad and Svatý Hostýn as sacred pilgrimage sites.
3. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
JEONJU CIVIC CHORALE MIXED CHOIR
CHEOL KIM artistic and choral director
WOOHYUN KANG and MIREU LEE instrumentals
JEONJU CIVIC CHORALE
JOSEF GABRIEL RHEINBERGER ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS KYUNGSUK CHEON ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD ARRIGO BOITO and more
A unique musical programme by the acclaimed South Korean choir from Jeonju in an innovative artistic and visual presentation.
5. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
VIVE LA FRANCE!
IVAN VOKÁČ cello
TOMÁŠ BRAUNER conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Orchestral scherzo
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Cello Concerto No. 1 in A-minor, Op. 33
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ Špalíček, ballet suite, H. 214
A concert redolent with the scents of France, featuring the cellist Ivan Vokáč and the conductor Tomáš Brauner.
10. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
THE BITTOVÁ PHEMONENON
IVA BITTOVÁ vocals, violin, piano
Adaptations of folk songs from Moravia, Slovakia, Ukraine and elsewhere in a unique fusion of jazz elements and ethnomusic style.
Our star performer this evening is the multi-talented singer and highly versatile instrumentalist Iva Bittová, one of the best known Czech musical artists whose unbridled spontaneity and incomparable creativity have deservedly won her the title of queen of the Czech avant-garde.
11. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre
SINFONIA FIŠERIANA
STANISLAV VAVŘÍNEK conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
The Troops of St. Tropez, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and more
SINFONIA FIŠERIANA II a sequence in music and pictures of themes from film and TV music by LUBOŠ FIŠER
15. 10. 2023 18.00 hrs, Church of the Virgin Mary Help of Christians, Zlín - Jižní Svahy
CANTATE DOMINO
GIRLS’ CHOIR OF THE STŘEDNÍ PEDAGOGICKÁ ŠKOLA KROMĚŘÍŽ
JIŘÍ JABLUNKA choral director
EVA KOČAŘOVA piano
LEOŠ JANÁČEK EUGEN SUCHOŇ TOMAŠ KAČO ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS and more
A concert by the Girls’ Choir of the Middle Pedagogical School in Kroměříž, acclaimed participants in international competitions both in this country and abroad, in a varied programme of outstanding group and solo performances.
19. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
GOGOL IN THREE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
ROBERT KRUŽÍK conductor, spoken word
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
MODEST PETROVICH MUSSORGSKY / ARR. ANATOLY LYADOV Overture and Hopak from the opera Sorochintsy Fair
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARR. GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY Gogol Suite
LEOŠ JANÁČEK Taras Bulba. Rhapsody for orchestra
A concert of musical tales from a sorely tested country, with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Robert Kružík.
26. 10. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
18.15 hrs, pre-concert talk
MUSICAL GIANTS
JAN SCHULMEISTER piano
TOMAŠ NETOPIL conductor
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The Consecration of the House, Overture, Op. 124
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D-minor, K. 466
ANTONIN DVOŘAK Symphony No. 5 in F-major, Op. 76
Tomáš Netopil and Jan Schulmeister – two outstanding artists associated with the musical scene in Kroměříž, in a programme celebrating the mastery of three musical giants.
2. 11. 2023 19.00 hrs, Zlín Congress Centre tickets
RUDY LINKA TRIO “LIVE“
RUDY LINKA guitar
RUDY ROYSTON percussion
CHRIS VAN VOORST VAN BEEST double bass
World-format jazz from the internationally acclaimed jazz musician and wizard guitarist Rudy Linka and friends from his American trio.