Aurora Percussion Duo

The Aurora Percussion Duo was founded by Delia Stevens and Le Yu in 2010. Winners of the Royal Overseas League Ensemble Award in 2012 and alumni of the Park Lane Group Young Artist Scheme, Aurora have since received invitations to perform at the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room, as well as the Edinburgh Festival (live on BBC Radio 3) and the Lucerne Festival. The duo has undertaken two sell-out tours of China, giving performances and masterclasses in some of the country’s most prestigious concert halls and conservatoires.

Described as ‘superb’ by the Financial Times and ‘extraordinary’ by Classical Source, Aurora Percussion Duo produce adrenaline fuelled concert performances which are visually spectacular, physically demanding and presented with the artistry of dedicated chamber musicians. Aurora concert programmes present a vast repertoire of music spanning centuries from Bach to the present day, whilst exploring instruments from the five-octave marimba to the humble egg shaker.

Aurora are constantly expanding the repertoire for percussion duo and continue to commission established and upcoming composers to write for them. They also create their own arrangements of works by more familiar composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Piazzolla and Bach, whilst exploring the explosive virtuosity and innovation belonging to the core percussion duo literature.

Following a sabbatical, Aurora made a return to the concert platform in March 2017 alongside pianists Kathryn Stott and Jeremy Young for a performance of the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion at the RNCM Chamber Music Festival.