Aurora Festival – November 2012 in Vänersborg/Sweden
Arenskij – String Quartet no 2,Op 35
Mi-kyung Lee -Violin, Alexander Zemtsov – Viola
Marko Ylönen -Cello, Mikhail Nemtsov – Cello
Unforgettable!

Aurora Festival – November 2012 in Vänersborg/Sweden
Mozart – Piano concerto no 12 ,A-Major
Staffan Scheja – Piano
Aurora Festival Strings

Aurora Festival – November 2012 in Vänersborg/Sweden
32 Auroracellists from all over the world led by Per Nyström play Popper – Requiem, Op 66

Arno Babadjanyan — Piano Trio
IV. Impromptu, ”Exprompt”
Avanesyan Trio
Hrachya Avanesyan- Violin
Sevak Avanesyan- Cello
Julien Libeer- Piano

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 …

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 …

We may sound boring ”politically correct” when we say that our festivals are always attended by artists:
- from around the world
- of all ages
- from different cultural backgrounds
- with all variations of sex?
Aurora has no party programs in that style, but, in the election of all artists, we care only about what they can and want with their musicality and instruments on stage.
Other political grounds would only serve to undermine the artistic result, and we promise, it interests me neither, or Per.
It is our belief that this is the best for …

Imagine…..if Girolamo Amatis son Nicola Amati also would have died when the plague was hitting hard on Cremona in 1630…..
The art of violinmaking is told to have started with Nicola’s grandfather Andrea, 1511 -1577. He passed it on to his two sons Antonio who left the building in 1607, and Girolamo who died in the plague in 1632…..another early giant Magginid vanished when the plague came to Brescia in 1632…..
So, left was only Nicola.
Thank God he got such a remarkable long life!! he became 88 years old and passed away …