Aurora Orchestra
@auroraorchestra.bsky.social
Playing all the notes since 2005. Proud creators of Aurora Classroom, helping teachers teach music with confidence.
Come and say hello https://linktr.ee/auroraorchestra
Come and say hello https://linktr.ee/auroraorchestra
Chatting to Mark Taylor on the Education on Fire podcast, our Creative Director Jane Mitchell discusses the importance of breaking down barriers to classical music and fostering creativity and confidence in children and teachers alike.
Listen now: www.educationonfire.com/education-on...
Listen now: www.educationonfire.com/education-on...
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Chatting to Mark Taylor on the Education on Fire podcast, our Creative Director Jane Mitchell discusses the importance of breaking down barriers to classical music and fostering creativity and confidence in children and teachers alike.
Listen now: www.educationonfire.com/education-on...
Listen now: www.educationonfire.com/education-on...
📅 Sat 11 April
Don't miss one of two UK performances of our award-winning Orchestral Theatre production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from memory.
Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/.../snape-ma...
Don't miss one of two UK performances of our award-winning Orchestral Theatre production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from memory.
Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/.../snape-ma...
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📅 Sat 11 April
Don't miss one of two UK performances of our award-winning Orchestral Theatre production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from memory.
Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/.../snape-ma...
Don't miss one of two UK performances of our award-winning Orchestral Theatre production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from memory.
Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/.../snape-ma...
We're returning to Britten Pears Arts for a weekend residency in 2026!
📅 Fri 10 April, Light and Motion
A programme ablaze with colour and life with music by Fauré, Ravel and John Adams, in a collaboration with Nicholas McCarthy, the BBC Singers and the Britten Pears Chamber Choir
📸 Andrew Staples
📅 Fri 10 April, Light and Motion
A programme ablaze with colour and life with music by Fauré, Ravel and John Adams, in a collaboration with Nicholas McCarthy, the BBC Singers and the Britten Pears Chamber Choir
📸 Andrew Staples
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We're returning to Britten Pears Arts for a weekend residency in 2026!
📅 Fri 10 April, Light and Motion
A programme ablaze with colour and life with music by Fauré, Ravel and John Adams, in a collaboration with Nicholas McCarthy, the BBC Singers and the Britten Pears Chamber Choir
📸 Andrew Staples
📅 Fri 10 April, Light and Motion
A programme ablaze with colour and life with music by Fauré, Ravel and John Adams, in a collaboration with Nicholas McCarthy, the BBC Singers and the Britten Pears Chamber Choir
📸 Andrew Staples
Tickets are now on sale for our two intimate and immersive performances of Mozart’s Jupiter symphony on Sunday 28 June 2026. Join us as we invite you into Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall to experience Mozart's groundbreaking symphony at the very heart of the orchestra.
📸 Mark Allan
📸 Mark Allan
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Tickets are now on sale for our two intimate and immersive performances of Mozart’s Jupiter symphony on Sunday 28 June 2026. Join us as we invite you into Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall to experience Mozart's groundbreaking symphony at the very heart of the orchestra.
📸 Mark Allan
📸 Mark Allan
Just announced: we take our trademark memorised performances to the next level, inviting you up onto and around the stage to experience Mozart’s Jupiter symphony at the very heart of the orchestra. Turning the concert hall on its head for two intimate concerts on the Sunday 28 June 2026.
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just announced: we take our trademark memorised performances to the next level, inviting you up onto and around the stage to experience Mozart’s Jupiter symphony at the very heart of the orchestra. Turning the concert hall on its head for two intimate concerts on the Sunday 28 June 2026.
We're overjoyed that Aurora Classroom has been shortlisted in the 'Outstanding Musical Initiative' category at the 2026 Music & Drama Education Awards! We'll find out whether we're winners in February.
Check out our free music resources for schools at auroraclassroom.co.uk 🎶
📸 Stanton Media
Check out our free music resources for schools at auroraclassroom.co.uk 🎶
📸 Stanton Media
October 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We're overjoyed that Aurora Classroom has been shortlisted in the 'Outstanding Musical Initiative' category at the 2026 Music & Drama Education Awards! We'll find out whether we're winners in February.
Check out our free music resources for schools at auroraclassroom.co.uk 🎶
📸 Stanton Media
Check out our free music resources for schools at auroraclassroom.co.uk 🎶
📸 Stanton Media
Just announced: we're looking forward to joining the BBC Singers and one of the finest choirs of the southern hemisphere, Voices New Zealand, for a concert celebrating choral music from Australia and New Zealand with European influences.
Head to the link in our bio to find out more.
Head to the link in our bio to find out more.
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just announced: we're looking forward to joining the BBC Singers and one of the finest choirs of the southern hemisphere, Voices New Zealand, for a concert celebrating choral music from Australia and New Zealand with European influences.
Head to the link in our bio to find out more.
Head to the link in our bio to find out more.
There’s truly nothing like the sound of 500 children screaming ‘violin’ at the top of their lungs! 🎻
Thank you our fabulous team for making Meet the Instruments a roaring success, transforming the Southbank Centre into a music and games-filled street party.
📸 Julian Guidera
Thank you our fabulous team for making Meet the Instruments a roaring success, transforming the Southbank Centre into a music and games-filled street party.
📸 Julian Guidera
October 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There’s truly nothing like the sound of 500 children screaming ‘violin’ at the top of their lungs! 🎻
Thank you our fabulous team for making Meet the Instruments a roaring success, transforming the Southbank Centre into a music and games-filled street party.
📸 Julian Guidera
Thank you our fabulous team for making Meet the Instruments a roaring success, transforming the Southbank Centre into a music and games-filled street party.
📸 Julian Guidera
[5/5] ... 🌬️ And our Principal Wind Players perform quintets and sextets that echo to times past. And don't miss our London performance of psalm settings, from Bach to Nico Muhly via Bernstein, with the BBC Singers.
Find out more: www.auroraorchestra.com/live-events/
📸 Nick Rutter
Find out more: www.auroraorchestra.com/live-events/
📸 Nick Rutter
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[5/5] ... 🌬️ And our Principal Wind Players perform quintets and sextets that echo to times past. And don't miss our London performance of psalm settings, from Bach to Nico Muhly via Bernstein, with the BBC Singers.
Find out more: www.auroraorchestra.com/live-events/
📸 Nick Rutter
Find out more: www.auroraorchestra.com/live-events/
📸 Nick Rutter
[4/5] 🧠 We're back at Kings Place in 2026 as part of their new annual theme, Memory Unwrapped. In January father-daughter duo Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social let us in on a lifetime of intimate music-making together...
📸 Matt Johnson
📸 Matt Johnson
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[4/5] 🧠 We're back at Kings Place in 2026 as part of their new annual theme, Memory Unwrapped. In January father-daughter duo Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social let us in on a lifetime of intimate music-making together...
📸 Matt Johnson
📸 Matt Johnson
[3/5] 🎼 We're heading to Oxford twice to perform at the new venue, the Schwarzman Centre. In June, you can hear Mozart's Jupiter Symphony from memory and in November we weave our way through three centuries of psalm settings with the BBC Singers, introduced by Edmund de Waal.
📸 Viktor Erik Emanuel
📸 Viktor Erik Emanuel
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[3/5] 🎼 We're heading to Oxford twice to perform at the new venue, the Schwarzman Centre. In June, you can hear Mozart's Jupiter Symphony from memory and in November we weave our way through three centuries of psalm settings with the BBC Singers, introduced by Edmund de Waal.
📸 Viktor Erik Emanuel
📸 Viktor Erik Emanuel
[2/5] 🔥 Our award-winning presentation of The Rite of Spring is returning for one night only on Thursday 16 April at the Southbank Centre. Actors will join Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and our musicians to dissect the riotous premiere, before we play the full symphony from memory.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[2/5] 🔥 Our award-winning presentation of The Rite of Spring is returning for one night only on Thursday 16 April at the Southbank Centre. Actors will join Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and our musicians to dissect the riotous premiere, before we play the full symphony from memory.
[1/5] 2026 is just around the corner 👀 Luckily that means a barrage of exciting concerts are coming your way! We have not one but three exciting announcements today...
📸 Maarit Kytöharju/Helsinki Festival
📸 Maarit Kytöharju/Helsinki Festival
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[1/5] 2026 is just around the corner 👀 Luckily that means a barrage of exciting concerts are coming your way! We have not one but three exciting announcements today...
📸 Maarit Kytöharju/Helsinki Festival
📸 Maarit Kytöharju/Helsinki Festival
Have you got your invitation to our party at the Southbank Centre at 2pm on Sunday?
We’ve just released the final row of tickets. See you there! www.auroraorchestra.com/event/meet-t...
We’ve just released the final row of tickets. See you there! www.auroraorchestra.com/event/meet-t...
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Have you got your invitation to our party at the Southbank Centre at 2pm on Sunday?
We’ve just released the final row of tickets. See you there! www.auroraorchestra.com/event/meet-t...
We’ve just released the final row of tickets. See you there! www.auroraorchestra.com/event/meet-t...
"The remarkable thing about this live recording is how exactly this kind of musical language and this spirit.. can so infectiously and effectively inhabit a larger ensemble" (The Arts Desk)
Listen to our album with Abel Selaocoe now www.warnerclassics.com/release/four...
📸 Julian Guidera
Listen to our album with Abel Selaocoe now www.warnerclassics.com/release/four...
📸 Julian Guidera
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"The remarkable thing about this live recording is how exactly this kind of musical language and this spirit.. can so infectiously and effectively inhabit a larger ensemble" (The Arts Desk)
Listen to our album with Abel Selaocoe now www.warnerclassics.com/release/four...
📸 Julian Guidera
Listen to our album with Abel Selaocoe now www.warnerclassics.com/release/four...
📸 Julian Guidera
Here we go! Listen live on BBC Radio 3 from 7pm www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
August 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here we go! Listen live on BBC Radio 3 from 7pm www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony - a joyful way to spend a Saturday afternoon! Catch us tomorrow performing from memory at the Southbank Centre.
Find out more www.auroraorchestra.com/event/in-ita...
Find out more www.auroraorchestra.com/event/in-ita...
June 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony - a joyful way to spend a Saturday afternoon! Catch us tomorrow performing from memory at the Southbank Centre.
Find out more www.auroraorchestra.com/event/in-ita...
Find out more www.auroraorchestra.com/event/in-ita...
To mark our 20th Anniversary, we're launching the Life-Changing Music Campaign, to transform the scale of our work, expand our schools’ programme and safeguard our existence for future generations.
Support our Campaign and DOUBLE your donation at www.auroraorchestra.com/life-changin...
Support our Campaign and DOUBLE your donation at www.auroraorchestra.com/life-changin...
May 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
To mark our 20th Anniversary, we're launching the Life-Changing Music Campaign, to transform the scale of our work, expand our schools’ programme and safeguard our existence for future generations.
Support our Campaign and DOUBLE your donation at www.auroraorchestra.com/life-changin...
Support our Campaign and DOUBLE your donation at www.auroraorchestra.com/life-changin...
Keeping our musicians on their toes!
A huge thanks to Maggie for conducting Saint-Saëns’ ‘Tortoises’ from Carnival of the Animals so brilliantly as part of our Join the Carnival! show for under-6s this weekend at Britten Pears Arts.
A huge thanks to Maggie for conducting Saint-Saëns’ ‘Tortoises’ from Carnival of the Animals so brilliantly as part of our Join the Carnival! show for under-6s this weekend at Britten Pears Arts.
May 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Keeping our musicians on their toes!
A huge thanks to Maggie for conducting Saint-Saëns’ ‘Tortoises’ from Carnival of the Animals so brilliantly as part of our Join the Carnival! show for under-6s this weekend at Britten Pears Arts.
A huge thanks to Maggie for conducting Saint-Saëns’ ‘Tortoises’ from Carnival of the Animals so brilliantly as part of our Join the Carnival! show for under-6s this weekend at Britten Pears Arts.
Who wants some good news? Aurora Classroom is now totally FREE 🎉
We're making our Creative Learning platform Aurora Classroom totally free. We believe that every child should have access to a music education, and this is our chance.
Explore it for yourself at auroraclassroom.co.uk
📸 Stanton Media
We're making our Creative Learning platform Aurora Classroom totally free. We believe that every child should have access to a music education, and this is our chance.
Explore it for yourself at auroraclassroom.co.uk
📸 Stanton Media
April 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Who wants some good news? Aurora Classroom is now totally FREE 🎉
We're making our Creative Learning platform Aurora Classroom totally free. We believe that every child should have access to a music education, and this is our chance.
Explore it for yourself at auroraclassroom.co.uk
📸 Stanton Media
We're making our Creative Learning platform Aurora Classroom totally free. We believe that every child should have access to a music education, and this is our chance.
Explore it for yourself at auroraclassroom.co.uk
📸 Stanton Media
Aurora’s 20 today 🎉
Little did we know as we played the opening notes of our first concert at the Wathen Hall in Barnes, organised over a kitchen table, that Aurora would still be flourishing 20 years later. Here’s to the next 20!
🎶 Francesca Lombardelli and Heledd Gwynant
Little did we know as we played the opening notes of our first concert at the Wathen Hall in Barnes, organised over a kitchen table, that Aurora would still be flourishing 20 years later. Here’s to the next 20!
🎶 Francesca Lombardelli and Heledd Gwynant
April 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Aurora’s 20 today 🎉
Little did we know as we played the opening notes of our first concert at the Wathen Hall in Barnes, organised over a kitchen table, that Aurora would still be flourishing 20 years later. Here’s to the next 20!
🎶 Francesca Lombardelli and Heledd Gwynant
Little did we know as we played the opening notes of our first concert at the Wathen Hall in Barnes, organised over a kitchen table, that Aurora would still be flourishing 20 years later. Here’s to the next 20!
🎶 Francesca Lombardelli and Heledd Gwynant
Grab your spot on a beanbag and enjoy the show – Edinburgh International Festival tickets are now on sale!
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/edinbu...
📸 Mark Allan
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/edinbu...
📸 Mark Allan
March 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Grab your spot on a beanbag and enjoy the show – Edinburgh International Festival tickets are now on sale!
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/edinbu...
📸 Mark Allan
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/edinbu...
📸 Mark Allan
“I have been in love with ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ for 30 years. I heard it as a young girl and its immense power was the reason I became a singer.”
Kate Wakeling sat down with leading Mahler singer Alice Coote ahead of our upcoming concerts.
Read now www.auroraorchestra.com/.../alice-co...
Kate Wakeling sat down with leading Mahler singer Alice Coote ahead of our upcoming concerts.
Read now www.auroraorchestra.com/.../alice-co...
March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“I have been in love with ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ for 30 years. I heard it as a young girl and its immense power was the reason I became a singer.”
Kate Wakeling sat down with leading Mahler singer Alice Coote ahead of our upcoming concerts.
Read now www.auroraorchestra.com/.../alice-co...
Kate Wakeling sat down with leading Mahler singer Alice Coote ahead of our upcoming concerts.
Read now www.auroraorchestra.com/.../alice-co...
Distinguished audience members, we’d like to welcome you into the world of Dr. Frompou. In this brand-new production of The Carnival of the Animals, our musicians are pushed to their limits by physical theatre experts Frantic Assembly.
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
📸 Stanton Media
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
📸 Stanton Media
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Distinguished audience members, we’d like to welcome you into the world of Dr. Frompou. In this brand-new production of The Carnival of the Animals, our musicians are pushed to their limits by physical theatre experts Frantic Assembly.
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
📸 Stanton Media
www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
📸 Stanton Media
Day 1 of Carnival rehearsals = complete ✅
Scott Graham, director of Frantic Assembly, put Aurora players through their paces today, both on the ground and up in the air. Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
Scott Graham, director of Frantic Assembly, put Aurora players through their paces today, both on the ground and up in the air. Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
March 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Day 1 of Carnival rehearsals = complete ✅
Scott Graham, director of Frantic Assembly, put Aurora players through their paces today, both on the ground and up in the air. Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...
Scott Graham, director of Frantic Assembly, put Aurora players through their paces today, both on the ground and up in the air. Find out more at www.auroraorchestra.com/event/carniv...