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Annemarie Federle
9 January 2023
Annemarie Federle is Principal Horn of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Aurora Orchestra, and she regularly appears as guest principal with other major orchestras in the UK, including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras. Annemarie was a grand finalist in the BBC Young Musician 2020 competition, performing Ruth Gipps’ Horn […]
Torun Sæter Stavseng
4 November 2021
Torun Sæter Stavseng is a Norwegian cellist with diverse musical interests active as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader and teacher. In 2010 she was awarded the Swedish Royal Academy of Music honorary prize after her debut in Britten ́s Cello Symphony with Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In the same year she was awarded the […]
Ruth Gibson
4 November 2021
Ruth loves communicating through music, taking on an open-minded approach to music-making, and pursuing a diversity of creative projects. As a Samaritan and qualified yoga teacher she strives for meaning and balance on and off the stage. Her recent collaborations have included a Mozart string quintet cycle with the Heath Quartet, Mozart piano quartets with […]
Maia Cabeza
4 November 2021
Canadian-American violinist Maia Cabeza enjoys a multi-faceted performing career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. She has been successful in several international competitions, and her major awards include 1st prize at the 2013 Leopold Mozart Violin Competition in Augsburg and 2nd prize (Bach-prize) of the 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. As […]
Amy Harman
4 November 2021
Amy Harman started the bassoon after a failed early career as a cellist. From 2010-15 she was principal of the Philharmonia and is currently a YCAT Artist, Member of Ensemble 360 and Principal of ENO and Aurora Orchestra. Career highlights include performing as a ‘flying soloist’ in Birmingham Opera’s premiere of Stockhausen’s ‘Mittwoch aus Licht’ […]
Ben Griffiths
4 November 2021
Ben officially joined Aurora in 2012 shortly after performing Mozart’s infamous double bass showpiece ‘Per quest bella mano’ with the orchestra. He has wide and varied experience of orchestral playing, including dozens of tours with the LSO and the John Wilson Orchestra. Chamber music includes regular appearances at the Cheltenham Festival, Guy Johnston’s Hatfield House […]
John Reid
4 November 2021
John has appeared as a soloist with Aurora over the past season at the Aldeburgh Festival, in collaboration with Poet in the City and as part of the Mozart concerto series at Kings Place. He is especially well known in the field of chamber music and song as a performer and teacher; he is an […]
Alexandra Wood
4 November 2021
Alex graduated from Cambridge with a starred double first, and went on to the Royal College of Music to study with Itzhak Rashkovsky. She subsequently became a Junior Fellow. A prize winner of various international competitions, in addition to her role as Leader with Aurora she also leads City of London Sinfonia, and is regularly […]
Henry Baldwin
4 November 2021
Henry combines his role at Aurora with the position of Section Principal Percussion at the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and a teaching post at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Henry has also given masterclasses at many other conservatoires in the UK. Outside music Henry likes to spend time with his […]