Aurora Chamber Music

I have just had breakfast at the hotel and decided to update you a bit about yesterday. Yesterday’s concert was amazing! There was so much audience so we had to put in more chairs.

At first read Samuel Fröler (Swedish actress) section of the letter from Mozart. It is something that I can recommend you to read!

Miriam Fried Biss (violin), Alissa Margulis (Violin), Thomas Riebl (Viola), Cheryl Law (Viola) and Per Nyström (Cello) played String quintet in G minor K 516 by W.A Mozart. It was so beautiful!

Miriam Fried plays a particularly noteworthy violin, a 1718 Stradivarius that is said to have been the favorite of its 18th-century owner, the composer-conductor Louis Spohr. It was also owned by Regina Strinasacchi who, it is thought, used the instrument to play with Mozart the Sonata in B-flat, K. 454, which had been written for her.

So the idea that Mozart might once have touched this violin made ??the music even more magical. After the break played Thomas Riebl and Håvard Gimse Schubert’s Arpeggione. Thomas Riebl played on a five-string viola so he could in the places you usually octave up, he could continue down. This gave the whole piece a wonderful sense of dark baritone singing.

After this beautiful sonata ended Håvard Gimse the concert with four beautiful piano pieces. The last tune made a huge impact on the audience and he was calld in several times!

After the concert we went to Suad pub and celebrated the evening’s success.

Yesterday Per called me and asked me if I wanted to come to Aurora spring edition and document what this all is about. So after I had reschedule all my rehearsals I traveled from Copenhagen to the little (but very beautiful) city Vänersborg.

During the train journey I read about the love affair between Clara Schuman and Brahms, I think this article from the guardian is very good read more.

Okay now Im going to try to explain to you how this course works.

This is Auroras heart, the information board!

Here the students can see when en where there master classes is. So during the course the students have two lessons with their teacher and also at least 2 open chamber music lessons.

Aurora Chamber Music together with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Musikakademi Vänersborg welcomes a group of 80 exceptional artists from all over the world to apply for the Aurora Master Classes in April-May 2011.

Participants will be offered masterclasses, both individually and chamber music.

Proffesors:

• Miriam Fried Biss Violin
• Philippe Graffin Violin
• Thomas Riebl Viola
• Marko Ylönen Cello
• Håvard Gimse Piano
• Per Nyström Chamber music

More about Aurora Masterclasses 2011 Here »

Per Nyström /Artistic Director

What a fantastic week it was in Vänersborg 2010!

Home again with all usual stuff and wonder where all went ?… it is so empty and boring without all you wonderful musicians.

We miss of course also already all the concerts, audience and all the nice host families.

Just talked with Mats that was depressed because Torleif had crushed him in table tennis tournament at Mission Church.

Fortunately, it is very soon time again for Aurora 10 to 18 July. We are working hard now with all the details about it.

Really hope we get to meet you all again, even then.

Very nice if you write something here and publisch some pictures.

Big hug from Ola & Per

Dear Ola and Per
the Italian Police had a chat with us, after preventing us to hang the Aurora posters on the forehead of the main statue of the Trevi Fountain…

We told them that after one Aurora…you can never do without! But they found it a weak claim in favour of us!

Anyways…
…loads of love from Italy!

Rossana and Giorgia