Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Czech: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně; abbreviation in Czech: JAMU) is a university-level school in Brno in the Czech Republic. The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts is one of two academies of music and the dramatic arts in the Czech Republic. It is named after Leoš Janáček and was founded in 1947. Following the collapse of the communist government in the 1980s, music and theatre Faculties were re-established, a number of professors who had been unable to teach were brought back, young teachers were admitted to the staff, new fields of study were introduced and foreign contacts were initiated. The institution soon gained wide recognition. Honorary doctorates have been...