Sinfonia Toronto
2005-2006 Profile


Sinfonia Toronto performs its seven Masterpiece Series concerts in Glenn Gould Studio. A four-concert Mozart in Jeans Series is presented at the Walmer Road Baptist Church (188 Lowther). The Strauss & Swing Viennese Ball is on March 27, 2006. The orchestra travels to other Ontario centres, broadcasts on CBC and holds a biennial Concerto Competition. 

Sinfonia Toronto’s strings perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, blending each musician’s soloistic energy into a brilliant ensemble under music director Nurhan Arman. A roster of winds and percussion joins the strings for programs drawn from the chamber orchestra repertoire.


Soloists for 2005-2006 include pianists Robert Silverman and Michael Esch, violinists Scott St. John, Etsuko Kimura, Leonid Peisahov, Konstantin Popovic, cellist Rafael Hoekman, percussionist Beverley Johnston, and guest conductors Carlo Palleschi and Giuseppe Lanzetta.


Sinfonia Toronto has been acclaimed by critics. The Toronto Star writes of “a remarkable range of colour,” “ample eloquence” and “gripping authority,” while La Scena Musicale declared, “Nurhan Arman and his orchestra literally conquered us.”
 

Nurhan Arman, music director and conductor
Margaret Chasins, administrator
264 Bloor Street West, Box 52545, Toronto ON  M5S 3C5
416-499-0403   sinfoniatoronto@sympatico.ca
www.sinfoniatoronto.com

 

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