© Kamil Jursa

Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor Brno

In January 2020, the Classical Prague Awards Foundation Council honored the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno for the best vocal interpretation in 2019. With the award, the Council declares the choir's exceptional performance in concerts with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Leos Janáček's "Glagolitic Mass" under the baton of conductor Petr Altrichter.


The choir regularly makes guest appearances at international music festivals and venues, whether in Prague (Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall, Brno Besední House and Janáček Theater), Vienna Konzerthaus, Musikvereine or at the Odeon Theater, Basel Casino, London-BBC Proms, Milano, Rome Santa Cecilia, Vatican, Paris, Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Bonn Beethovenhalle, Linz Brucknerhaus, Passau, Dresden, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Stuttgart Liederhalle, Rheingau Wiesbaden Basilika Eberbach, Heidenheim, Budapest, Brugge, Lille, Liege and Grafenegg, Locarno KKZ etc. 


The founder, music director, composer and conductor of the choir is Petr Fiala (born in 1943), who has been a choir director and conductor for 55 years. The choir was founded in 1990 - despite its short history, today it is one of the most sought-after professional music choirs in Europe. In 2007, it received the ECHO Klassik Award for the best vocal ensemble of the year with the a cappella program "Bruckner's Motets" (MDG). 


With the CD recording "Christus" by Franz Liszt, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno together with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (conducted by Roman Kofman) won another ECHO award.
The recording of Paul Klenau "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod..." together with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and P. Mann were nominated for the Danish P2 Music Prize in the category "Symphonic Recording of the Year 2008". 


The choir's Zimmermann recording "Requiem for a Young Poet" earned the German Record Critics' Award in January 2009. In 2011, the choir was awarded the TOKUSEN Award by the Japanese journal "Geijutsu Disc Review" for its recording of Dvořák's "Requiem". The choir makes regular guest appearances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, RSO Prague, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Teplice, Olomouc, Zlín, Ostrava, Brno, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Litomyšl, České Budějovice and Plzen. 
Last season he gave concerts in Stuttgart with Marcus Bosch, in Bamberg with Jakub Hrůša, in Dortmund with Gabriel Feltz, at the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle the debut with the Staatskapelle Berlin, concerts in Katovice with NOSPR and Alexander Liebreich, Liège with Christian Arming, Linz (Mahler VIII) with Marcus Poschner, at the Grafenegg Festival (conductor: Vasily Petrenko), at the Richard Strauss Festival in Ga-Pa with Cornelius Meister, at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Music Festival in Schleswig Holstein and Prof. Justus Frantz, Gstaad Menuhin Festival (conductor: Marco Armiliato), with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin with conductor Christoph Eschenbach, Musica, Katovice (conductor: Lawrence Foster), Frankfurt Alte Oper (conductor: Marcus Bosch), Bonn (opening concert of the Beethoven Year 2019, conductor: Dirk Kaftan), Stuttgart, Aschaffenburg (conductor: Dan Ettinger), Dortmund (conductor: Gabriel Feltz), Liege (conductor: Gergely Madaras), Gstaad, Ljubljana, Grafenegg (conductors: Gianandrea Noseda, Jaap van Zweden) and at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. 


In the next season 22/23 the choir will give concerts all over Europe, among others at all Czech festivals, in Strasbourg, Madrid, Northern Italy, Ludwigshafen, Bamberg, Dresden, at the Rheingau Music Festival, at the Grafenegg Festival, at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and many more.The choir sings almost 100 concerts per year. Meanwhile the singers cooperate with all Czech and the most recognized international orchestras. Partners on the podium were among others Conductors such as Petr Altrichter, Jiří Bělohlávek, Leoš Svárovský, Zdeněk Mácal, Vladimír Válek, Libor Pešek, Jakub Hrůša, Jakub Klecker, Juraj Valčuha, Marco Armiliato, Stephan Blunier, Marcus Bosch, Bertrand de Billy, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Aldo Ceccato Andrés Orosco-Estrada, Christoph Eschenbach, Dan Ettinger, Dennis Russell Davies, Charles Dutoit, Justus Franz, Gabriel Feltz, Iván Fischer, Lawrence Foster, Justus Frantz, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Leopold Hager, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Manfred Honeck, Wilson Hermanto, Marek Janowski, Kristjan, Paavo and Neeme Järvi, Mark Junk, Carlos Kalmar, Isaac Karabschevsky, Dirk Kaftan, Yakob Kreizberg, Emanuel Krivine, Hooman Khalatbari, Roman Kofman, Marco Letonja, Alexander Liebreich, Zubin Mehta, Roberto Montenegro, Kurt Masur, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Roger Norrington, Matthias Pintscher, Markus Poschner, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Yutaka Sado, Marc Soustrot, Steven Sloane, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Georg Schmöhe, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Mario Venzago, Walter Weller, Ralf Weikert, Hugh Wolff, Simone Young, Jaap van Zweeden and others.


Since September 2022, Michael Dvořák also works with the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno as a second choirmaster. The activity of the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno is supported by the South Moravian Region, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Statutory City of Brno. TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING, A. G. acts as the general partner of the TPCHB. 

concerts featuring Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor Brno