For 29 years, the Bohuslav Martinů Days Festival has aimed to present and promote the music of the Polička native. The focus of the programme is on concerts by leading Czech chamber ensembles and top soloists, who also present the composer's less frequently performed works. The festival includes the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition, which supports the performance of the composer's works by the youngest generation of performers and thus helps to shape young artists. The concerts in cooperation with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra each year also feature large-scale symphonic compositions. The festival thus showcases the richness and diversity of Bohuslav Martinů's work in the context of the works of Czech and international composers who share historical and stylistic influences and relationships with Bohuslav Martinů.

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The 28ᵗʰ Bohuslav Martinů Days Festival and the 27ᵗʰ Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition for young artists on the threshold of their musical careers took place from  November 27 to December 17 2022. Visitors had the opportunity to hear a total of ten concerts. Seven of them in the Martinů Hall, where we welcomed the Czech performing elite. The other three took place in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum in cooperation with the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Chamber Music Society. The audience had the opportunity to hear performances by both Czech and foreign artists. Among the highlights of this year's edition was, for example, the renewed premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's String Quartet No. 1, in the version of the Bennewitz Quartet, which is based on the parts of the Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet with notes by the composer himself. Furthermore, a performance of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 H 293 performed by world superstars Leonidas Kavakos and the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Jakub Hrůša. A standing ovation was also given to the January concert in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum, which took place in cooperation with our traditional partner - the Czech Chamber Music Society.