Just a few weeks ago, we finished the latest edition of Aurora. It was a great success with 100 musicians from all over the world and many sold out concerts.
Gerhard Schulz & Elena Nemtsova
Gary Hoffman & Aurora friends
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 The fantastic Avanesyan Trio
 

32 international cellists playing Poppers Requiem
 

 
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Now it is time for a new edition and we feel confident that it can be just as successful again.
We are delighted to present some completely amazing professors and artists who will lead master classes, chamber music and perform during the festival April …

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 …

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 …