The closing festival week will offer five concerts. The first three will take place at the Masquerade Hall. On Tuesday 1^st August violoncellist Petr Nouzovský will perform together with guitarist Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová. The program, except for one original composition – Sonata for violoncello and guitar by Brazilian composer Radamés Gnattali – consists of transcriptions of popular compositions which are often heard on concert stages, however, not in the presence of a guitar and violoncello. On Wednesday 2^nd August the concert of the Smetana Trio, which has recently been awarded the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Award, will take place. The trio will play compositions exclusively by Czech authors – Josef Suk, Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana. The following day, on Thursday 3^rd August, the Janoska Ensemble will present an original combination of classical music with a tinge of jazz and pop with two soloists, soprano Marcela Cerno and baritone Daniel Serafin. On Friday the festival production will move to the Brewery Garden, where soloists Eva Hornyáková, Terézia Kružliaková, Otokar Klein and Peter Mikuláš, the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Stanislav Vavřínek will interpret Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. The festival finale will be untraditional. The president of the IMF Český Krumlov, Jaromír Boháč, described its form, “This year the castle garden will be a new festival venue, where the closing evening of this year’s festival will take place. We will give a welcome to the visitors at the summer riding hall from where, after a short official closing of the festival, we will all go to the Baroque fountain, where the first part of the program ‘illumination of the garden’ will be prepared. Then the guests will go to the so-called English park next to the musical pavilion, where they will listen to the concert ‘A Night of Baroque Masters’ itself. Trumpeter Marek Zvolánek and the Barocco sempre giovane ensemble will play compositions by Charpentier, Telemann, Vivaldi and Bach. And the very final part of the festival will take place by the lake where festive fireworks, accompanied by Händel’s music, await the visitors.“