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The Aurora Ensemble is an independent 501(c)(3) organization devoted to the research, preservation and performance of historic music from Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Staging public concerts across the United States in cities and regions such as Boston, New Hampshire, New York City, Cincinnati and Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Aurora is the leading advocate for lost and forgotten Nordic music across the national concert stage.
Aurora partners and collaborates with exceptional musicians from across the county who have devoted their careers to becoming "early music specialists." This means that everyone involved in the Aurora Ensemble has an extensive background in the research and performance practice of old music. Aurora performs exclusively on the historical instruments the music was originally written for, bringing this incredible repertoire to life in the closest way possible to how it was intended.
In addition to public performances, the Aurora Ensemble also produces a variety of materials and resources for the benefit of other musicians, scholars and researchers, including scores and transcriptions, research findings, and articles on Nordic musical heritage.
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THE AURORA ENSEMBLE
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HIGHLIGHTS & NEWS
Recent highlights and contributions to Nordic musicology
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The Aurora Ensemble to give American premiere performance of Augusta Wrangel's cantata
The Aurora Ensemble will present the American premiere performance of Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sünder, the only known surviving composition of Swedish noblewoman Augusta Aurora Wrangel (1658-99), on January 18, 2025 in Minneapolis. They will also perform the American premiere of Ein Edler Geist by Keiser with text by Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, Augusta's first cousin.
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The Aurora Ensemble receives grant funding to produce recording and concert inspired by Augsburg Book of Miracles
The Aurora Ensemble's Minnesota debut will feature a recording project and interactive public concert inspired by the illuminations in the Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, a 16th century illustrated manuscript covering Genesis to Revelations and hundreds of reported miracles and wonders across Old Europe in between.
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The Aurora Ensemble, Scandinavian Cultural Center produce concert honoring Swedish composer-queen
The Aurora Ensemble and the Scandinavian Cultural Center presented a concert of historic Scandinavian to a full house at Nordic Hall in Boston. The program featured the American premiere performances of Johanna Eleonora de la Gardÿ'sWelt ich will nichts von dir haben and Queen Ulrika Eleonora's Ade du schnöde Welt. The women were dear friends and their compositions are preserved on the same manuscript paper.
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The Aurora Ensemble premieres Maria Aurora von Königsmarck's cantata in America
In collaboration with Bo Andersson, professor emeritus at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, the Aurora Ensemble has produced the first modern edition of O großer Gott by Swedish countess, poetess and historical figure Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662-1728) and presented the work in a concert of historic Scandinavian music in Cambridge, MA. The recording is to be featured in an upcoming documentary on historic Scandinavian music by Pernilla Lindborg.
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The Aurora Ensemble to perform interactive concert with illustrations by Kay Neilson
The Aurora Ensemble is to present an interactive concert of historic music from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland accompanied by the beloved images of Danish fairytale illustrator Kay Neilson. The program will feature the performance of the Braun Flute Quartet (Allegro - Adagio - Allegro alla Norvege) on Classical period instruments.