SINFONIA TORONTO

NURHAN ARMAN Music Director

present

SINFONIA GEMS

Sunday, March 9, 2 pm sold-out

A free 'My Piece of the City' concert sponsored by the RCM, the Daniels Corporation and the

Music Performance Trust Fund with support from the Toronto Musicians' Association.

Concert duration is 60' without intermission

Program

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

Sinfonia Toronto, now in its 26th season, has toured twice in Europe, in the US, South America and China, receiving glowing reviews. It has released six CD’s, including a JUNO Award winner. Under the baton of Maestro Nurhan Arman, they perform an extensive repertoire including all the major string orchestra works of the 18th through 21st centuries and premieres of many new works.

Nurhan Arman has conducted throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the US, returning especially often to Europe. Among the orchestras Maestro Arman has conducted are the Moscow Philharmonic, Deutsches Kammerorchester Frankfurt, St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra, Orchestre Régional d’Ile de France, Hungarian Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic and dozens of orchestras in Italy, with many return engagements.

Sinfonia Toronto is supported by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Government of Ontario.