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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 8d

[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

Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 8d

[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

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 8d

[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

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 8d

[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.

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 8d

[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

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 12d

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...

Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 14d

"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

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Nick Boston @nickb86uk.bsky.social · Aug 19

Nicholas Collon and @auroraorchestra.bsky.social pull off another dramatic performance from memory at the Proms @royalalberthall.bsky.social

Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra pull off another dramatic performance from memory

Max Revell as Dmitry Shostakovich © BBC/Andy Paradise Max Revell (actor/dancer) Polly Frame (actor) Craig Stein (actor) Sarah Twomey (ac...

nicks-classical-notes.blogspot.com

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · 29d

We’d say some Mozart and Beethoven is VERY fast… 😜

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · Aug 18

Nicholas Collon and @auroraorchestra.bsky.social pull off another dramatic performance from memory at the BBC Proms
✍️ Nick Boston
bachtrack.com/review-collo...

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edin1981.bsky.social @edin1981.bsky.social · Aug 18

Fantastic performance of Four Spirits just finished by #AbelSelaocoe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. He just led the @auroraorchestra.bsky.social - and audience - at the Usher Hall. Tears at this end. #edintfest

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Sue Badman @sukesbad.bsky.social · Aug 17

Brilliant exposition and performance of Shostakovich 5th by @auroraorchestra.bsky.social and Frantic Assembly. Hats off to actor/dancer Max Revell as the composer. BBC Proms @royalalberthall.bsky.social

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Twopenny Theatre @twopennytheatre.com · Aug 17

@auroraorchestra.bsky.social's annual "By Heart" performance at the BBC Proms was - once again - excellent. Impressively combined are:
- A theatrical exploration a symphony's composition, including its composer's life, and musical themes.
- A performance of the full symphony - from memory!

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · Aug 17

I went to that #Proms up town last night, snapped me some background on #Shostakovich who danced, & took a bow after his 5th Symphony got the most scintillating rendition you're ever likely to hear/see from @auroraorchestra.bsky.social. So pop your telly on tonight #BBCFOUR & cop it all. #Brilliant

Aurora Orchestra & performers from Frantic Assembly take a bow in a crowded Royal Albert Hall after a performance if Shostakovich's 5th Symphony Sat 16 Aug 2025

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · Aug 17

Just been to the second performance of this. I turn up again and again, giving Aurora the chance to be somehow less than amazing, and... yep, amazing AGAIN. It's becoming a habit.

Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon will be on BBC Radio 4 tonight to discuss our upcoming memorised performances of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Listen in from 7.15pm www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk

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Leonora @toomuchsinging.bsky.social · Aug 17

Huge thanks to @auroraorchestra.bsky.social not only for their electrifying performance of Shostakovich 5 at the Proms tonight, but also for programming one of my favourite symphonies on my birthday. An astonishing feat all round.

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · Aug 17

You’re welcome! 😉

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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · Aug 16

The annual visit of @auroraorchestra.bsky.social has become a must-attend Prom for us.

Stupendous Shostakovich 5. Very moving first half where they put the symphony in context, then a blazing performance of the full work

It was recorded for TV. Look out for it - unmissable

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Lisa Osborne @elleosborne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wonderful evening at #BBCProms, first with #franticassembly exploring Shostakovich’s 5th symphony and the spaces between politics and art, and then with the astonishing @auroraorchestra.bsky.social playing it from memory!

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sadly not at the moment..

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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · Aug 16

Prom was superb! I can't get over the difference it makes having all the context and detail before hearing it, although the music by itself was sublime too. @auroraorchestra.bsky.social

Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Prom tonight was really great btw. On telly tomorrow I think. Do watch. And maybe accompany it with Origin Story podcast on Stalin and Shostakovitch if you want the story in a bit more detail.

Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 16

Well. Early #ConfinedCocktails as promised. The Albert Hall's finest*

(Cheap seats only)

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · Aug 16

Just before the start of a fabulous @auroraorchestra.bsky.social performance 👏👏👏

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · Aug 16

They did not 😜

Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · Aug 16

I wonder if the members of the @auroraorchestra.bsky.social knew what they signed up for when they first started playing symphonies from memory? This year, not content with learning Shostakovich's 5th by heart, a few of them also performed solos while being lifted up and carried around the stage.

A view from the Choir of a very relieved orchestra. They are looking in the direction of a first violinist who had been doing some acrobatics while playing earlier in the evening.

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Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social · Aug 16

BBC4 on Sunday night!

David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · Aug 16

The annual visit of @auroraorchestra.bsky.social has become a must-attend Prom for us.

Stupendous Shostakovich 5. Very moving first half where they put the symphony in context, then a blazing performance of the full work

It was recorded for TV. Look out for it - unmissable

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