PMP – Prague Music Performance is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 with the aim of organizing the Prague Music Performance Institute & Festival.
As part of Prague Music Performance, the international PMP Orchestra and the music publishing house Prague Music Platform were established. PMP also organizes the Ivan Moravec Academy and the South Bohemian Piano Courses and Festival.
PMP focuses on contemporary classical, jazz, and experimental music. Over the course of fifteen years, the festival has presented many internationally renowned artists, including John Zorn, Kronos Quartet, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding, Uri Caine, Thurston Moore, Einstürzende Neubauten, David Thomas, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Garth Knox, Mary Halvorson, Ikue Mori, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Barry Guy, Gareth Davis, Roland Dahinden, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, Marc Ribot, Julian Lage, Phantasm, Quatuor Diotima, Miroslav Srnka, Mahan Esfahani, Francesco Tristano and others.
Among the lecturers of the institute were Alfred Brendel, Ivan Moravec, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Zenon Fishbein, Boris Giltburg, Tamás Vásáry, Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrei Gavrilov, Saleem Ashkar, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Uri Caine, Roland Dahinden and others.
PMP closely collaborates with other artistic institutions such as the International Music Institute Darmstadt, the Tri-Centric Foundation in New York, the Czech Philharmonic, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the National Gallery Prague, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, the National Film Archive, and the international festivals Prague Spring and Music is.
PMP’s activities are supported by the EEA Grants 2014–2021, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, the Prague City Hall, the Stadler-Trier Music Foundation, and the Pamela Stacy Fund.