Partners of the festival

The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic has traditionally been a strong financial partner of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the most important music festival in the Czech Republic. The Ministry also a founder of the Prague Spring, Public Service Company, which was established in 2001 from the transformation of a State Funded Organization of the Ministry of Culture. In November 2022, the partnership was strengthened by a contract, thanks to which the festival will receive an annual sum of CZK 30 million, if all the necessary conditions are met. This greatly assists the festival organisers in negotiating with foreign partners whose engagements are planned for years to come.

Mr. Martin Baxa, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prague Spring.

The City of Prague is a traditional financial partner of the festival, which has proudly carried the name of the city for 80 years. The continuous support of the municipality is essential for a music show with a world-wide reputation to be able to represent the city in the way it is expected to – i.e. with high artistic and organisational value, a dramaturgically varied offer and extraordinary experiences that the audience cannot experience during the concert season.
We are honored that Mr. Bohuslav Svoboda, Mayor of the Capital City of Prague. Prague’s Mayor, has become a member of the Festival’s Board of Trustees in 2023.

In January 2024, a memorandum on mutual cooperation was ceremoniously signed in the presence of the Minister of Culture Martin Baxa, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Prague Spring, and the CEO of the ČEZ Group, Daniel Beneš. The ČEZ Group thus became the new General Partner of the Prague Spring International Music Festival. This memorandum underlines the importance of corporate sponsorship and social responsibility for culture.

Also in 2025, ČEZ Group becomes a partner of the Opening Concert of 80th Prague Spring, where the opening performance of the festival’s emblematic work, Smetana’s My Country, was symbolically entrusted to the Czech Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov.

We value long-term partnerships, thanks to which the festival can develop artistically and offer the audience the best of the world of classical music. It is this partnership that unites us with innogy, for more than 30 years in 2025. We greatly value this special connection and look forward to dozens more artistic experiences together.

Innogy is a traditional partner of the Prague Spring Festival Closing Concert.

In 2016 and 2017, CETIN became the General Partner of the festival. Subsequently, it remained in the partnership structure in the position of Technology Partner.

Allianz has become a proud partner of the Prague Spring Festival in 2024 and will again be a Partner of the concert in 2025, specifically the performance of Beethoven’s iconic Fate Symphony by the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Antonello Manacorda on 22 May at the Rudolfinum.

Prague Spring came last year with a new project for younger audiences and teenagers. After the great success of the first edition, SpringTeen 2025 will be again a day full of concerts and various workshops for young audiences, culminating in an open-air concert in the gardens of St. Agnes Monastery. And once again we will be able to meet Yumi, the two-armed robot from ABB, which has become a partner in this project. And maybe he’ll even serve you some waffles!

The General Media Partner has been associated with the festival since time immemorial. Every year, it brings its viewers a live broadcast of the Opening Concert, regular daily festival coverage of the Echo of Prague Spring, reports and interviews from press conferences, festival concerts and other events. In cooperation with Czech Television, some exceptional documentaries were also produced about personalities of the world classical music scene – in 2017, for example, a unique documentary was produced about Daniel Barenboim and his production of Má vlast, with which he opened Prague Spring 2017.

Czech Radio – the Main Media Partner of the festival, participates in mediating artistic experiences to its listeners in the form of live broadcasts of festival concerts every year.
Czech Radio is also closely connected with the Symphony Orchestra of Czech Radio, which is a regular guest of the festival.

Exceptional media support for the Prague Spring Festival is provided by the publishing house Economia. In cooperation with Hospodářské noviny, two unique newspaper supplements are also being created, which present individual concerts of the festival or feature interviews with artists or festival organizers. Cooperation also takes place in the online space at aktuálně.cz and others.

A fleet of nearly ten luxury limousines, mostly electric or hybrid, cruises Prague every year in May and ensures the necessary comfort for the festival’s artists, and facilitates the logistics and organization for the festival’s organizing team. Every year, Merecedes-Benz becomes a partner of the cross-over concert of the festival, which takes place in the Mercedes Forum in Chodov. This year there will be a concert of Brazilian samba performed by Luciana Souza and Trio Correntesa on 21 May.