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.
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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 our website.
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 Czech Music Quarterly magazine. … Read more
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 this volume its name, The Smiling … Read more
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.
CMQ 2024/2
Summer issue of the Czech Music Quarterly Magazine just available online and in the the printed version. You can read the on chapter – an interview with the Czech poet Pavel Zajíček here.
CMQ 2024/1
New issue of the magazine just available online and in the the printed version. You can read the on chapter – an interview with the Czech composer and artist Ian Mikyska here.