All lovers of the opera and balet will have a great oportunity to enjoy very rare repertoir during this season of the Mahler Jihlava festival. On the June 12 they can visit the performance of Bohuslav Martinů - Theatre Behind the Gate, H. 251 - opera/balet in three acts.

The Gala Opening concert of the Mahler Jihlava festival 2013 will be performed under the baton of the leading European conductor Libor Pešek!

You can follow the programme of the Mahler Jihlava - the Music of Thousands festival in the programme section of our webpage!

Barbora Polášková with Miroslav Sekera On Thursday 18th October the final concert of the ‘Music of Thousands’ Mahler Festival in co-operation with the Vienna Czech Centre took place, given by Barbora Polášková and the pianist Miroslav Sekera at Klosterneuburg near Vienna. The concert was at the same time part of an International series in support of young artists, organised by the Stift Klosterneuburg whose representative introduced the gala occasion. The ‘Music of Thousands’ festival is displaying its activities and, most importantly, its plans for the future years in the Czech Centre’s windows at No.17 Herrengasse in Vienna during November. Since the festival concerts at Jihlava and other places in the Highlands on the Czech-Moravian border have been attracting more and more visitors from Austria, it is hoped that the information displayed at the Czech Centre will prove useful. Music at the Klosterneuburg concert included very successful performances of solo piano compositions (Bedřich Smetana’s On the Seashore and Zdeněk Fibich’s recently discovered Variations in B flat major), as well as song cycles by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Antonín Dvořák’s Gypsy Songs – a work which had its first ever performance in Vienna in 1881. And it was the performance of the Dvořák that was greeted with shouts of bravo and rhythmic clapping from the audience who were rewarded by Barbora Polášková with an effective encore from Carmen. The concert represented a brilliant international conclusion to this year’s – the eleventh – annual festival ‘Music of Thousands’ – Mahler Jihlava 2012.

Tuesday 19th July, 7.30pm. Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague. European Tour 2011 http://www.obecnidum.cz/web/en/news/university-of-manchester-symphony-orchestra-1 Tickets 500Kč / 100 Kč (students) box office number +420 222 002 101 Conductor - Mark Heron

Festival Mahler Jihlava 2011 continued by traditional meeting of brass bands in Kaliste near Humpolec. See more.

The brand new CD - Gustav Mahler, Symphony No 1 and Alma Maria Mahler, Songs. Sung by Barbora Polášková, performed by Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zdeněk Mácal. This CD will be presented at the opening ceremony of Mahler Jihlava Festival on May 17th, 2011 in Jihlava.

The Mahler Society is organising a commemorative act at the grave of Gustav Mahler in Grinzing, Vienna on 14th May. Join us there at 12,30, or you can come with us from Jihlava /departure 9,00 hotel Gustav Mahler/.

This year’s Music of Thousands – Mahler 2011 Festival will be a special jubilee event, marking the 100th anniversary of the great composer’s death. The Mayor of the town of Jihlava, Ing. Jaroslav Vymazal, together with representatives of the Festival committee – will lay a bouquet of roses (of the named variety Gustav Mahler) and a granite pebble from the Vysočina highlands at Mahler’s grave at Grinzing in Vienna on May 14th, the eve of the Festival. The visit to Vienna will be open to all others interested in the event – a special bus will be provided in Jihlava. The Festival proper will this year be opened earlier, on May 17th, so that lovers of Mahler’s music will be able to attend the Prague performance of the Eight Symphony, as part of this year’s Prague Spring Festival, on May 18th. The Music of Thousands together with the Prague Spring Festival are putting on a special project and presentation about Gustav Mahler with the musical director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - one of today’s greatest Mahler conductors - Michael Tilson Thomas. The project, Keeping Score, will be presented on May 18th at 2 p.m. at the Evald Cinema in Prague. The day before, Tuesday May 17th, at 3 p.m. at the Masaryk Square in Jihlava there will be the traditional young orchestras’ concert. There will, in fact, be two such orchestras this year – the ZUŠ (Primary Arts School) orchestra from Humpolec and the ZUŠ orchestra from Chotěboř. Following a ceremony at 4 p.m. an exhibition will be opened at the Jihlava Town Hall of works by the artist Alfred Roller. The Festival’s gala opening concert will begin at 7 p.m. with the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony and Verdi’s Requiem on the programme. Soloists taking part will be Lada Biriucov, Barbora Polášková, Josef Zedník and Roman Vocel, with the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno (chorusmaster Petr Fiala) and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimír Válek. Festival guests and the opening concert’s audience will be able to ‘try out’ for the first time the beautiful interior of the Church of the Holy Cross after its recent reconstruction, where it is hoped more orchestral concerts will take place in the future. Of the subsequent Festival events, a special occasion will be the concert of an American orchestra from Boston on Monday June 20th: the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Boston, with conductor Benjamin Zander, will play Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. Another orchestra appearing at the Festival will be the Prague Symphony’s Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jurek Dybal (member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) which will take place at the Gustav Mahler birthplace at Kaliště near Humpolec on Saturday 18th June. Among the very attractive recitals will be one given by the mezzo soprano Andrea Kalivodová on Friday June 3rd, with Czech Lieder on the programme, including works by Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Otakar Ostrčil and Jan Kunc. Some of the best young artists will – in cooperation with the Prague Academy of Performing Arts - appear in Jihlava in a programme of popular operatic arias: Kateřina Šmídová-Kalvachová, Anna Trahová and Michael Kubečka. As in the case of Andrea Kalivodová, these singers will be accompanied on the piano by Miroslav Sekera. More artists from abroad taking part in the Music of Thousands – Mahler Jihlava 2011 Festival will include the noted Italian ensemble Trio Variable whose members will play works by Beethoven, Bruch and Brahms on Tuesday May 24th, while guitar enthusiasts will be able on Tuesday May 31st hear the guitar duo Siempre Nuevo whose new CD has attracted a great deal of interest both at home and abroad. The Festival will also include some interesting events, such as a great open-air get-together of youth wind bands at Kaliště near Humpolec on Saturday May 21st, a presentation of a documentary film ‘Meeting Mahler’ at the newly established design centre EXIT 112, as well as a scientific conference about Mahler and his legacy between May 24th and 28th in Vienna. The conference will be attended by representatives of the Festival and of the Gustav Mahler Society – MAHLER 2000, while conference participants will pay a visit to Jihlava and Kaliště.

Many new photos of Gustav Mahler Jubilee day 7.7. 2010 here. by Jan Černo

Thank you all for coming to Jihlava and Kaliste yesterday...great day with great music...

The statue of Gustav Mahler in Jihlava was officialy showed yesterday. The ceremony joined President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus.

One more information from Kaliště near Humpolec...the stage for the evening concert is alredy there...

The Czech President Vaclav Klaus will visit the official opening of the Gustav Mahler park in Jihlava, then he will go to Kaliště near Humpolec, where he will plant a rose in Mahler rosarium and will visit recital of Thomas Hampson in Gustav Mahler birthplace.

New CD "Gustav Mahler and Military music in Jihlava 1875" will be available during the Gustav Mahler celebration 7.7. 2010 in Kaliště near Humpolec.

The international festival Mahler Jihlava – The Music of Thousands in Jihlava ended - to remain all events follow photogelleries. We are looking forward to meeting you in Kaliště near Humpolec 7. 7. 2010.

We managed to update all photogalleries from concerts of festival Mahler Jihlava – The Music of Thousands. Follow this link to see them.

The festival is very succesfull...
...The concert 20.V. 2010 was just wonderful!!!
Zdenek Mácal delivered an extraordinary performance - many thanks for arranging for these tickets.
Now I have one question: When will you publish the program for 2011 ?
Many thanks in advance“
Kurt

Norman Lebrecht has recommended LIVE CD from the music festival Mahler Jihlava - The Music of Thousands 2009 in his every week review. "...this is a valid reading of a work written at the peak of Mahler’s domestic happiness and the atmosphere feels appropriately organic..." MORE

The Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 9 on 27 April with conductor Andreas Sebastian Weiser.

Standing ovations for Zdeněk Mácal and Prague Symphony Orchestra - so succesfull was yesterday concert of Mahler: Symphony No. 1 „Titan“ in Jihlava.

The music festival Mahler Jihlava - The Music of Thousands 2010 was opened with very succesfull concert of Gustav Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde!

The Music Festival Janáčkův Máj will also take part in MAHLER RELAY with Festival Prologue. To the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler´s birth will be performed Gustav Mahler: The Song of the Earth.

A new rose variety has been bred and named the ‘Gustav Mahler’ to mark this year’s Gustav Mahler jubilee. It is the result of many years’ work by the rose breeder Ing. Josef Urban of the Zahradnictví URBAN at Želešice near Brno. Zahradnictví URBAN is a classic family business, focusing on the production of fruit trees, roses and garden flowers. Its success rests on the work of ancestors of the present owners. The name Josef Urban is well known to rose experts, since its holder is one of our leading rose breeders who has produced many well known and beautiful roses, e.g. Lidka, Josef Klimeš, Jitka and others. The new rose, Gustav Mahler, continues the tradition. All roses, garden flowers and fruit trees are grown in the fields around Želešice and Hajany near Brno, under the supervision of State Phytosanitary Administration and Central Agricultural Control and Testing Institute which exercise control over the health and genuineness of the varieties.

Norman Lebrecht together with Jeremy Evans from BBC Radio 3 visited the Czech Republic - Kaliště near Humpolec and Jihlava. Norman Lebrecht is preparing the program about Gustav Mahler. That was the reason they visitied the birthplace in Kaliště near Humpolec and Jihlava, where Gustav Mahler grew up until his 15. The program will be broadcast on July 18, 2010.

We would like to invite all Gustav Mahler Societies and their members and all Gustav Mahler lovers for the big Gustav Mahler Day 7.VII. 2010 to Jihlava and Kaliště near Humpolec. Thomas Hampson recital and big Symphony orchestra concert in the evening - more at www.gustavmahler.eu. It is going to be the main event of the 7.VII. 2010 celebration. Let´s all of us go to the birthplace of Gustav Mahler to Kaliště near Humpolec. The tickets: www.flyunited.cz

Please note the change of start of the evening concert 7.7. 2010 in Kaliště near Humpolec. The concert, which will be broadcasted live by several television companies, will begin at 20.15!

Gustav Mahler Connection - our Society took part in it. Follow this link.

After the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK and other organizations taking part in the project of "Mahler relay 2010 - 2011", now The Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra will play Mahlers Symphony No.5 on April 15 as a part of this long-term co-operation of Czech music organizations. !

Promotional campaign of festival Mahler - Jihlava The Music of Thousands 2010, that will be held from 18 May to 7 July and includes a great celebration on 7th July in Jihlava Kaliště near Humpolec, was started today.

New CD ArcoDiva in co-operation with Vysočina region: UP 0122 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 /Moravan Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Petr Vronský - conductor/

There will be also an evening concert on 7. 7. 2010 in Kaliště. Mahler GALA - G. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (parts)+ Songs live outdoor TV-concert

Thomas Hampson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Manfred Honeck – conductor

tickets info: Fly United – Jana Vondrkova

http://www.gustav-mahler.it - this is address of Gustav Mahler Connection - our Society took part on it