2024-2025 MASTERPIECE SERIES
SINFONIA TORONTO ~ NURHAN ARMAN Music Director
Exciting music, amazing guest artists and beloved classics
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Adults: 4 remaining concerts for $136 BUY
Seniors (60+): 4 remaining concerts for $122 BUY
Students: 4 remaining concerts for $51 BUY
Single concert tickets ~ Adult $52; Senior (60+) $40; Student $20
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Upcoming concerts
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 accordionist 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
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
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 Violin Concerto world premiere
WOLF-FERRARI Serenade
Saturday, May 3, 2025 8 pm, George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge Street
SUNNY'S BEETHOVEN ~ Flowering Moon
Young superstar Sunny Ritter returns to play an all-time favourite piano concerto, Nurhan Arman conducts Barbara Assiginaak's ode to nature, and 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 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 plays 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
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).
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Sinfonia Toronto respectfully acknowledges that we work in the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
and the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples
Friday, December 6, 8 pm, Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front Street East
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