New CD – Jana Vöröšová

Czech Music Information Centre releases a new CD in the Composer Portraits series, dedicated to the composer Jana Vöröšová. Her creative range is broad, encompassing large orchestral scores, pieces for various chamber ensembles and vocal music, as well as works that are highly challenging to programme. The CD can be found...

CMQ 4/2025

This year’s last issue of Czech Music Quarterly 4/2025 is available online and in print. Among other things, you can read an interview with the composer Jakub Rataj, which is also available online on our website...

CMQ 3/2025

New issue of the Czech Music Quarterly 3/2025 is available online and in print on request. You can also read an interview with Ondřej Skovajsa online on our website. You can order the magazine by email: or purchase online for download...

CMQ 2/2025

The summer issue of the Czech Music Quarterly 2/2025 is available online and in print on request. You can also read an interview with the composer Mark Keprt online on our website. You can order the magazine by email: or purchase online for download...

CMQ 2025/1

The first issue of this year Czech Music Quarterly 1/2025 is available online and in print for subscription. You can read, among other things, an interview with Barbora Vackova Gillies about Czech women composers from the socialist era, which she discusses in her dissertation. It is also available online on...

CMQ 2024/4

This year’s last issue of Czech Music Quarterly 4/2024 is available online and in print. Among other things, you can read an interview with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, which is also available online on our website...

New album – Rudolf Komorous

Czech Music Information Centre releases a new CD in the Composer Portraits series, dedicated to the composer Rudolf Komorous. The recording features a single composition by Wu (2002-2003) for solo piano. The performer is Belgian pianist Daan Vandewalle. The CD can be found on Bandcamp and ordered at or simultaneously with...

The Smiling Frankenstein

New book just released by the Czech Music Information Centre In this highly personal and thoroughly researched volume, composer Jaroslav Šťastný (Peter Graham) introduces his perspective on John Cage, one of the strongest compositional voices of the twentieth century. Comprised of two older essays and the recent text that gives...

CMQ 2024/3

The autumn issue of Czech Music Quarterly is now available both online and in the print version. You may read Petr Ferenc´s portrait of Oldřich Janota (1949-2004) for free here...