UK Touring Archives - Aurora Orchestra

Aurora with the BBC Singers and Edmund de Waal

30 September 2025

Artist Edmund de Waal introduces the BBC Singers and Aurora in a concert weaving together three centuries of psalm settings.

A conductor leads the Aurora Orchestra during a live performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall. The musicians, dressed in formal black attire, play violins, cellos, and other orchestral instruments. The conductor stands on a red podium in front of the ensemble, passionately directing the musicians, who are arranged closely around him. The stage is warmly lit, and the atmosphere is focused and intense.

Mozart from Memory, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford

30 September 2025

We make our Schwarzman Centre debut with a joyful programme, featuring a memorised performance of Mozart’s mighty Jupiter Symphony.

A full orchestra performing on a wooden concert hall stage, featuring string, brass, woodwind, and percussion musicians. The performers are dressed in formal black attire, and the stage is warmly lit with wooden paneling on the back wall. The audience is visible in the foreground.

Aurora & the BBC Singers at the Schwarzman Centre, Oxford

30 September 2025

Aurora celebrates the enduring musical resonance of the Book of Psalms with artist Edmund de Waal and the BBC Singers.

"Conductor leads a standing orchestra during a live performance, with violinists, a cellist, and a double bassist playing around him on stage."

Mendelssohn 4, Snape Maltings Concert Hall

17 July 2025

Enjoy Aurora’s signature concert experience with a dreamy orchestral programme of memorised Mendelssohn, alongside Prokofiev’s second concerto with violin superstar Chloë Hanslip.

A man smiles whilst conducting an orchestra. Behind him four violinists pluck their violin strings.

Mendelssohn 4, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

27 June 2025

It’s been twenty years since Aurora Orchestra tore up the rule book and made its name worldwide as a boundary-breaking ensemble, creating extraordinary musical experiences by incorporating drama and choreography and making even the most familiar classical works feel new-minted by performing them entirely from memory.

Mendelssohn 4, Wiltshire Music Centre

27 June 2025

Aurora Orchestra makes its debut at the Wiltshire Music Centre with a memorised performance of Mendelssohn’s uplifting Fourth Symphony.

A conductor leads an orchestra during a performance. Two female violinists play attentively in the foreground, while other musicians, including a man with a trumpet, are visible in the background. The conductor, dressed in a black suit, stands in front of a music stand with an open score.

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

24 April 2025

We return to Saffron Hall with a signature memorised and dramatised performance. This year, we unwrap Shostakovich’s gripping Fifth Symphony.

A man with curly hair conducts an orchestra.

Mendelssohn 4, Saffron Hall

14 April 2025

Nothing lifts the spirits quite like the opening of Mendelssohn’s symphony, which bursts into life with an irrepressible energy that could lift you off your feet.

Mendelssohn 4 by Heart – UK Tour

14 April 2025

The latest in our memorised series is Mendelssohn’s uplifting Fourth Symphony, which we’re taking on tour around the UK this autumn.

An orchestra is performing on a wooden stage in a concert hall. The conductor stands on a red podium, energetically leading the musicians. The musicians, dressed in black, are playing violins, cellos, brass instruments, and timpani. The hall is warmly lit with wooden paneling and spotlights overhead.

Shostakovich Inside Out

17 March 2025

Explore Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony as the Aurora Orchestra unpacks its drama, depth and defiance.

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