SINFONIA TORONTO ~ NURHAN ARMAN Music Director
Next concerts
Friday, April 11, 2025, 8 pm, Trinity St-Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West
A superb new violin concerto composed for a young Canadian star and a warm Mediterranean serenade with an Italian maestro
SINFONIA TORONTO / GIULIO MARAZIA Conductor
CHRISTINA BOUEY Violinist
RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3
MACDONALD A Distant Point in the Vast Heavens: Violin Concerto No. 2 world premiere
WOLF-FERRARI Serenade
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 8 pm, George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge Street
Young superstar Sunny Ritter returns to play an all-time piano favourite and Nurhan Arman conducts Shostakovich's awesome and only work from 1946
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
SUNNY RITTER Pianist
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
ASSIGINAAK Waawaaskone-giizis (Flowering Moon) world premiere
SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony op. 73
Guest Artist Sponsor: Hampton Securities
Past 2024-2025 concerts
Saturday, September 28, 8 pm, George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge Street
MOZART & MASQUERADE ~ The Stars Align
Brilliant violinist Conrad Chow plays Bach, three young competition winners play Mozart and the orchestra soars through a dazzling ballet suite
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
CONRAD CHOW Violinist
VICTORIA ZENG, ANISSA SHE, JONATHAN WANG Pianists
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20
BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade
Friday, November 8, 8 pm, Trinity St-Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West
CHOPIN & SHOSTAKOVICH ~ Slavic Gems
Chopin wrote songs? Yes, beautiful folk-inspired gems!
Polish soprano Dominika Zamara interprets a dozen songs, and pianist Anya Alexeyev joins the orchestra for a Shostakovich favourite
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
ANYA ALEXEYEV Pianist
DOMINIKA ZAMARA Soprano
KALINNIKOV Serenade
CHOPIN Polish Songs
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G Minor orchestra version
Friday, December 6, 8 pm, Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front Street East
Four centuries of beauty – gems by Bach, Mozart, a Schumann masterpiece in the hands of a major European soloist and a Toronto composer’s poignant new oboe concerto
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
MARIANNA SHIRINYAN Pianist
CAITLIN BROMS-JACOBS Oboist
MOZART Serenade in C Major Ganz kleine Nachtmusik K 648 Canadian premiere
KEVIN LAU Prayer in a Green Cathedral Oboe Concerto Ontario premiere
BACH Piano Concerto in F Minor
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 orchestra version
Friday, January 24, 2025, 8 pm, Trinity St-Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West
PIAZZOLLA & PALEJ ~ Tears and Tango
Two exciting soloists: a violin virtuoso in a melodious showpiece, and the Canadian debut of one of the world’s top accordionists in the premiere of Toronto composer Norbert Palej’s ‘Tears of Things’ plus irresitible Piazzolla tangos
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
MACIEJ FRACKIEWICZ Accordionist
DAVID BAIK Violinist
MOZART Divertimento K. 138
WIENIAWSKI Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust, op. 20
PALEJ Lacrymae Rerum - tears of things world premiere
PIAZZOLLA Five Tango Sensations
Guest Artist Sponsors: Meredith MacFarquhar and Edward Thompson; Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 8 pm, George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge Street
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN ~ Playing for Peace
A concerto odyssey through dreams and prayers with one of Europe’s finest violinists, plus one of Schubert’s most famous, emotional and beautiful works
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
HAIK KAZAZYAN Violinist
BERLINER Jacob’s Dream Violin Concerto Canadian premiere
SCHUBERT Death and The Maiden
Sunday, March 9, 2025, 2 pm, Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. West
SINFONIA GEMS sold-out
Nurhan Arman conducts Sinfonia Toronto in a program of light classics
SINFONIA TORONTO
NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
MOZART Divertimento K 138
VIVALDI Sinfonia in G major, RV 146
KHACHATURIAN Waltz, Mazurka and Romance from the Masquerade Suite
MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik, movements 1 and 3
DVORAK Slavonic Dance in E Minor
KHACHATURIAN Sabre Dance
A free 'My Piece of the City' concert sponsored by the RCM, the Daniels Corporation and the Music Performance Trust Fund of the Canadian/American Federation of Musicians.
Sunday, March 23, 2025, 3 pm, The Music Room, Hart House
18 Queen's Park Crescent West
Sinfonia Toronto violist Jacob Clewell and pianist Sasha Bult-Ito present an exciting afternoon recital of beautiful music for violin, viola and piano followed by a reception
CHAMPAGNE Habanera for Violin and Piano
FRANCK Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano
ENESCU Concertpiece for Viola and Piano
REBECCA CLARKE Sonata for Viola and Piano
Sponsored by the Hart House
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario)