PMP – Prague Music Performance – is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 by Czech pianist Jan Bartoš for the purpose of organizing the Prague Music Performance Institute & Festival.
Prague Music Performance has founded the international orchestra PMP Orchestra and the Prague Music Platform recording label and publishing house. PMP also organizes the Ivan Moravec Academy and the South Bohemian Piano Courses and Festival.
PMP primarily focuses on contemporary classical, jazz, and experimental music. The list of renowned artists PMP has introduced throughout its history includes Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, 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, Quatuor Diotima, Phantasm, Mahan Esfahani.
PMP closely collaborates with other art institutions such as International Music Institute Darmstadt, Tri-Centric Foundation in New York, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Academy of Performing Arts, National Gallery in Prague, National Film Archives in Prague, The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, international festivals Prague Spring and Music is.
PMP Institute & Festival is supported by the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the State Fund of Culture, the Capital City of Prague, Stadler-Trier Music Foundation, and the Pamela Stacy Fund.