We've been shortlisted for not one, but two OPUS KLASSIK awards!
The first for our Beethovenfest Bonn performance of Shostakovich's Fifth by Heart last year and the second for our Warner Classics album of Abel Selaocoe's Cello Concerto 'Four Spirits'.
📸 Julian Guidera
As Artistic Director of @auroraorchestra.bsky.social, Jane Mitchell has been thinking about what an orchestra can and should be for the past 20 years. Join us at 3pm on Monday 4 May for a talk exploring what it takes to create and sustain an orchestra.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-05-...
Find out more www.auroraorchestra.com/event/bbc-pr...
Mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis joins us in our first-half memorised and dramatised introduction, as we lift the bonnet on a musical distillation of the composer’s life in sound: klezmer bands to the natural world, folk dances to funeral marches, symphony and song united as one.
📸 Dane Suarez
We are back with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon at the BBC Proms this summer with none other than... Mahler's First Symphony!
📸 Chris Christodoulou
In breaking news, @auroraorchestra.bsky.social has been completely bloody amazing again.
(I missed the original Rite of Spring performance at Proms 2023. SO glad they decided to revisit it.)
★★★★★ The Rite by Heart @auroraorchestra.bsky.social #MultitudesFestival @southbankcentre.bsky.social - with an exhilarating display of changing rhythms & moods, this semi-dramatised evening was as illuminating as it was exhilarating, says @hallibee1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Wait until the end for a special surprise 👀
Introducing our actors for our dramatised introduction to The Rite by Heart.
🗓️ Sat 11 April @brittenpearsarts (sold out)
🗓️ Thu 16 April @southbankcentre
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/the-ri...
An introduction to 10 of the female violinists who are leading British orchestras:
www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/features/fem...
We're looking forward to performing Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the incredible Nicholas McCarthy, Pianist this Friday at Snape Maltings. He caught up with Petroc Trewlany on BBC Radio 3's In Tune ahead of our weekend of concerts. Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Aurora and Nicholas Collon return to the BBC Proms for a memorised performance of Mahler's First, with an exploration of his life in sound.