Swiss SUGYP won the festival Grand Prize

The Swiss team won both the grand prize of the festival and the prize for the best music. Finns received the prize for the best compulsory part.

The REGIOJET IGNIS BRUNENSIS Grand Prize was awarded to the Swiss company SUGYP for its mysterious show The Enigma of Paradoxes, inspired by Sherlock Holmes and filled with extraordinary colors and vivid effects. The award was decided by a 15-member expert jury composed of specialists in various artistic fields.

SUGYP will also take home the Czech Radio Prize “Music amidst the fires” for best musical composition for a fireworks display from Brno.

The Swiss team had already won the festival’s grand prize in 2013, and the award for best music in 2017 for a show prepared in collaboration with a Chinese team. They thus successfully defended both of their previous awards at this year’s festival.

“I'm really so happy, we've been coming to Brno for many years to see the shows and meet with friends in a place where the atmosphere is so great and it's about the heart of fire. There are also great designers on the same level and the level is so high, so we're so proud to win. We're also so happy that our Finnish colleagues won the prize for the best obligatory melody, because their take on that part was so good and so clean. We'll happily come back in the future, Brno is in our heart. When we won in 2013, it was the first win in such a competition for us,” said SUGYP's designer Nicolas Guinand.

The special prize by the Mayor of Brno for the design of the compulsory music part went to the JoHo Pyro team – the first Finnish company to perform at the festival – for their pyromusical The Pendulum of Light and Silence.

Designer Johan Holländer didn't expect to win in this category, especially with the level of competition and the quality of all the competing teams: “I'm very proud about that part. When I saw what Nicolas Guinand from SUGYP prepared with the moving stars effect, I thought that it was perfect. So I was surprised to win this award and I'm very happy that we were able to win.”

The compulsory melody for the 29th edition of the festival was a 90-second segment from Hans Zimmer’s composition Discombobulate. The Finns prepared an unconventional show for the Brno audience, featuring a flawless performance that also impressed the jury.

“We hope we can change the minds of people about fireworks, that it's not only about shooting stuff into the air, but that it's art, that it's about the heart of fire. And it's not only about the design, we also need skilled technicians,” agreed both designers from the awarded teams.

In this 29th edition, the Audience Choice Award for the most popular fireworks display is still to be presented. Audience members can still vote for each show on Facebook today; the award will go to the pyromusical with the highest audience rating.

The festival isn’t over yet—we still have the Summer Festival of Fun and, for example, the Festival of Planets at the Brno Observatory ahead of us. The 30th anniversary edition of Ignis Brunensis will take place in June 2027, with the event scheduled to extend into the beginning of summer holidays. We plan to hold the competition fireworks displays at Brno Lake starting June 23, but we’ll adjust the dates to accommodate the MotoGP schedule,” said Jiří Morávek from the organizing company SNIP&CO.

Dominika Pivodová Lišková