Since I started working with Per and Ola last January I felt the Energy. No actually, I felt it already when they interviewed me right before Christmas. Ola and Per are not ordinary people, they love what they do, and it is virtually impossible to resist their enthusiasm. I was asked to help with Aurora communication, and we decided to start working right away with a new website. I received tons of emails by both of them every day asking to implement stuff, discussing how we could make it work …

Kära publik, nu inför vår totalt 19e festival i Vänersborg – Trollhättan är det en hel del nytt i Auroras värld.
Ni har kanske sett våra affischer samt broschyrer om Vårfestivalen? Ganska annorlunda mot förut, eller hur? Vad tycker ni?
Själva är vi väldigt nöjda med detta nya utseende – samt med vår helt nya hemsida som vi hoppas ni alla kommer finna funktionell, lätt att hitta i och med en massa spännande och intressant att läsa. Tips – spana in bloggen…..där skriver oftast jag & Ola, men också våra artister & …

In our profession it is rare to be involved in a festival that is so committed To its students,aurora is one of these places. I have enjoy coming year after year and work with such an impressive class of clarinetists from all over the world,in intense studies and performances as well as enjoy so very much my colleagues .
If it is August ….Aurora is the place to be.
Warm greetings to all,
Yehuda Gilad
Professor/ USC school of Music
music Director/ conductor,the Colburn Orchestra

I think most of musicians ask themselves what is their purpose for being musicians. Why do we spend many hours of our lives practicing? Why do we try to remember hundreds of notes?
Even if we don’t want to show our doubting personality, questions like these are always somewhere deep inside our mind.
Trying to find the answers can be a very long and even a painful process.
It is so important to understand, that music doesn’t have to prove something to somebody. We play the most beautiful pieces in the world …

I’m excited to get back to Aurora Festival for my second visit! My first visit was in 2010 and the energy from so many talented young musicians, buzzing around from masterclasses to rehearsals and concerts, was something you could breath in.
The appetite for learning was almost overwhelming, including in my cello class, where I ended up teaching violinists, violists and singers too. We had such a fantastic time from the beginning to the end of each day, professors and students mixing and enjoying the immersion, discussing music, even between …

Everyone who comes to Aurora in August will get a lot of exciting stuff to do. Big festival with great concerts, master classes and chamber music. We tend to be almost 200 musicians from around the world.
One of many great parts at Aurora is that everybody will have solo master classes with some of the greatest artists in the world.
The master class is programmed for 13 days!! between 09.00 – 15.00 everyday.
This is a unique opportunity for our students to work with our fantastic professors, such as Roby Lakatos, Kostantin …

There are many places where we can play chamber music, have lessons with famous professors, meet friends and have parties. But believe me there is only one place where pure music exists every single moment and the most fantastic professors become our friends. The place of real Friends and Art… Unforgettable minutes on a stage and inimitable parties with Tequila Rose…;) Last summer Aurora Festival became one the best summer in my life.
I will keep in my heart all those beautiful feelings that were shared by my great colleagues from …

To play Stringquartet is the best and most important thing a person can do with his life.
Living with The last String quartets by Beethoven is to devote yourself to the peak of humanity. This is where Beethoven takes us to a level never surpassed before or after.”
Norbert Brainin, 1st violinist of the Amadeus String Quartet, 1947-1987.
 “This, The Gran Partita, was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I had never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing …

is the last day to apply for the master classes in august.
Read all about it here
Hope to see you in the summer

We are extremely happy and proud to annonce that the french violinist ELEONORE DARMON will receive the Aurora Chamber Music Scholarship 2012.
Some of you might remember her fantastic performance of the Carmen-suite by Waxman at a Spring festival in Vänersborg 3 years ago!?
Eleonore is a fullblooded soloist with an explosive temperament and virtuosity, and she will put all that into display in Paganini’s 1st violinconcerto together with Johannes Gustavsson and the Aurora Symphony Orchestra.
Eleonore joins the exquisit club of former Aurora Scholarships like Jakob Koranyi, Andreas Brantelid, Alissa Margulis, Zlata …