November music dreaming

Czech Dreams will colour November across Europe with a variety of musical experiences. We will visit Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Leszno in Wielkopolska, Košice in Eastern Slovakia and three cities of music belonging to the prestigious UNESCO Creative Cities Network, namely Veszprém in Hungary and Katowice and Bydgoszcz in Poland. The November ambassadors of the Czech Dreams are Duo Jedlinský-Fischer, Gankino Quintet and Duo Ardašev, a pair of concerts will feature the patron of the Czech Dreams Magdalena Kožená in a swing programme with Ondřej Havelka's Melody Makers.

The autumn tour starts today in Veszprém, Hungary. The Gankino Quintet, a dynamic ensemble of Pardubice Conservatory students combining ethnic melodies with jazz elements in an original line-up of violin, clarinet, accordion, guitar and double bass, will perform at the famous Papírkutya cultural café there.
On Saturday, the renowned Duo Jedlinský-Fischer will visit the Polish town of Leszno, where they will play the programme "Blood and Honey" in the hall of the Stanisław Grochowiak Library. Violin, accordion and vocals of both virtuosos tell musical stories processed by the duo members and influenced by the idiom of Eastern European music. The concert will be preceded by the opening of an exhibition of Bohuslav Reynek's works, poetically titled "The Lord of Mood"; selected prints by Reynek and Reynek´s son´s Daniel photographs of his father at work have been lent by the Gallery of Fine Arts in Havlíčkův Brod. The concert and the opening are part of the programme of the visit of the delegation of the Czech partner town, which since last year has been Žďár nad Sázavou. The Jedlinský-Fischer duo with "Blood and Honey" will then continue to the eastern Netherlands; on Wednesday 20 November they will perform at the important cultural centre Brebl in Nijmegen.
On Sunday 17 November, the patron of Czech Dreams, the star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, will perform in the hall of the State Philharmonic Košice. Together with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers, she will take the audience into the world of jazz and swing in a programme called "Let's Misbehave!" The same dynamic stage show will be offered to the audience on Thursday 21 November at the famous NOSPR in Katowice, Poland. The city, linked to the Moravian capital by its membership in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, will also offer its inhabitants an exhibition of 3D models entitled "Brno, the City of Modernism". The opening will take place in the Katowice City of Gardens gallery at 5:30 pm and will be on display until November 30.
The November tour will be closed by the legendary Duo Ardašev. In the beautiful surroundings of the palace complex in Ostromeck near Bydgoszcz, they will fill the last Sunday in November with the tones of Smetana's unsurpassed My Country in an original version for four-hand piano.

The concerts in Poland and Slovakia are held under the kind patronage of Their Excellencies, Ambassadors Břetislav Dančák and Rudolf Jindrák, and in cooperation with the Czech Centre in Warsaw and the Czech Centre in Bratislava. Thank you!