What does a day on tour look like for our concertmaster, Jan Fišer? 🎻 How does he spend his time between morning violin practice at a hotel in Amsterdam and a post-concert beer in London?

What does a day on tour look like for our Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov? “A musician’s life is wonderful, but though we travel the world, we actually see nothing—just the hotel room and the concert hall,” he says. Watch more in the video.

101 musicians, 3 soloists, 1 Maestro. Over the past few weeks, we’ve played eight hours of Shostakovich, four hours of Mahler, and just under two hours of Mozart. In five cities across five countries, nearly 15,000 listeners joined us. 🎶 Thank you!

Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins is still in the hall, but you can catch Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance with Simon Rattle on stream: bit.ly/Livestream-ČF. 🔗 Thursday, April 10 at 20:30 – on our YouTube channel.

Tonight, we perform Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, conducted by Simon Rattle. Join us for the first-ever live stream with an aftertalk, starting at 8:30pm: bit.ly/Livestream-ČF.

Wonderful news has just arrived from London: our nomination for the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Awards has won the Orchestral Award! The winning recording is Má vlast by Smetana, performed by the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Semyon Bychkov. Thank you!

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes explains in the latest episode of the Philharmonious podcast why courage is more important than ego. Listen to the conversation about life, music, and Grieg's Piano Concerto: bit.ly/10Andsnes.

Concerts booked, bags packed, everything ready for Carnegie Hall – and then you forget Semyon in Prague… That was the story behind our campaign, now awarded gold, two silvers & bronze at the ADC Czech Creative Awards. Thank you!

Smetana’s Má vlast was first performed at the Prague Spring on 12 May 1946 – by the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Rafael Kubelík. Since then, we’ve played 430 festival concerts and performed Má vlast 76 times. Tonight marks the 77th. Join us: bit.ly/ČF-MáVlast

Thank you for being with us! The Prague Spring Festival has officially opened under the baton of Semyon Bychkov. 📸 Václav Hodina

Hanover lies in the valley of the Leine River, and Baden-Baden is crossed by the Oos. This week, though, both cities will be united by the sound of a different river: the Vltava. We’re bringing it to our neighbors with Smetana’s Má vlast. Can’t wait to hit the road!

To keep homesickness at bay on our Germany tour, we brought a piece of home with us – Smetana’s Má vlast. 🙂 Thank you for the warm welcome, Baden-Baden and Hanover! 📸 Michael Bode

At the premiere of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in 1910, the Munich Exhibition Hall had to squeeze in 1,029 performers. How many do you think will take the stage at the Municipal House for the closing concert of the Prague Spring Festival, where we’ll perform this monumental work?

Beautiful pictures captured at last night's performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at the Prague Spring Festival, giving a sense of the scale of the number of musicians and singers taking part. 📷 Václav Hodina

The Czech Philharmonic opened this year’s Smetana Litomyšl Festival with music by Smetana, Beethoven, and Prokofiev – performed in the brand-new Smetana Hall under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, joined by violinist Vilde Frang. 📷 František Renza & Ivan Malý

The season is coming to a close and we're getting ready for the final Open Air concert: bit.ly/ČFOpenAir. Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska will lead the colourful programme. Rehearsals are done and the forecast looks great: sunny 24°C. 🌞 See you tomorrow!

This feels like a truly joyful way to close the season. 💙 Janáček and Bizet had us dancing, Ravel hypnotized us with Boléro… 🎶 A big thank you to Dalia Stasevska for conducting this vibrant Open Air concert that brought us to the end of our 129th season.

Internationally acclaimed Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša will become Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic from Sept 2028. "I am overjoyed and deeply honoured that the Czech Philharmonic has chosen to align its path with mine from 2028."

Nothing ends with Smetanova Litomyšl Festival: we’re moving forward. Literally. We’re heading 383 kilometers west to Bad Kissingen, Bavaria. Taking with us Tomáš Netopil, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. 📸 František Renza

“Music of indescribable beauty and indescribable tenderness,” says Semyon Bychkov about Mahler. 💙 As the composer was born exactly 165 years ago today, we’re celebrating with a short excerpt from his Fifth Symphony. 🎼