Sinfonia Toronto performs its Masterpiece Series concerts in CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. The orchestra travels to other Ontario centres for performances on regional concert series, and has also joined Canada’s leading choir, the Elmer Iseler Singers, for several oratorio performances. In addition to its Masterpiece Series Sinfonia Toronto performs a number of community outreach concerts.  

Many of Sinfonia Toronto’s Masterpiece Series concerts have been recorded for broadcast nationwide on 'Symphony Hall' and regionally on 'Music Around Us' on  CBC Radio Two.

The core of Sinfonia Toronto consists of thirteen virtuoso strings. They perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, blending each musician’s soloistic energy and passion into a brilliant ensemble style under Maestro Arman’s inspired direction. A roster of Toronto’s finest woodwinds, brass and percussion joins the strings for programs drawn from the full range of chamber orchestra repertoire.   Sinfonia Toronto’s performances have been acclaimed by critics in and outside Toronto. The Toronto Star writes of "a remarkable range of colour," "ample eloquence" and "gripping authority." The Barrie Advance headlined "A Treasured Experience" and described a performance ranging from "tender longing" to "gusto." The Toronto Star, again, praised Grieg’s Holberg Suite and the Dvorak Serenade, "both of which Arman led in an affectionate, unhurried manner, with an appreciation of their singing qualities," while La Scena Musicale declared, "Nurhan Arman and his orchestra literally conquered us."  

Sinfonia Toronto has collaborated with outstanding soloists of national and international reputation. Among those guest artists sharing the stage with Maestro Arman and Sinfonia Toronto are pianists Andre Laplante, Janina Fialkowska, Richard Raymond, Jane Coop, Robert Silverman and Francine Kay; violinists Dmitri Berlinsky, Corey Cerovsek, Erika Raum, Scott St. John, Jasper Wood and Judy Kang; clarinetist Julian Milkis; sopranos Nathalie Paulin and Aline Kutan.

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SINFONIA TORONTO PERFORMED REPERTOIRE

AGER, ANDREW Intermezzo
ALBINONI Sinfonia
ANDONIAN In memoriam (world premiere) / Rhapsody (world premiere)
ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikowsky
ARUTUNIAN Sinfonietta (Canadian premiere) / Violin Concerto (Ontario premiere)
BACH  

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Piano Concerto in A major

Piano Concerto in D minor

Piano Concerto in F minor

Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor

Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major

Concerto for Two Violins in d minor
BACH/STOKOWSKI Mein Jesu / Prelude in b minor
BAKER, MICHAEL CONWAY Flute Concerto
BARBER Adagio for Strings
BARTOK Divertimento / Romanian Folk Dances
BEETHOVEN 

Triple Concerto for Violin, Piano and Cello

Piano Concerto No. 2

Quartet op. 95  (Arman)

Grosse Fugue op. 133

Serenade

Quartet op. 135 (Arman)   
BIBER  Battalia Suite
BOCCHERINI 

Cello Concerto in B-flat major (Arr for strings by Nurhan Arman)
BORODIN  Sinfonia
BRAHMS   

Liebeslieder Waltzes

Piano Quintet in F (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)

Clarinet Quintet (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)

Hungarian Dances nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6
BRITTEN  

Les illuminations

Simple Symphony
BURGE

Forgotten Dreams for Flute and Orchestra (Toronto premiere)

Upper Canada Fiddle Suite

Flanders Fields Reflections (world-premiere)

One Sail (Toronto premiere)
CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings
CHOPIN  

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor (String orchestra version by Nurhan Arman) / Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor (String orchestra version by Nurhan Arman)
CORELLI  Sarabande, Gigue and Badinerie / Christmas Concerto 
DVORAK 

Serenade

The Cypresses

Two Waltzes 

American Quartet op. 96 (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman) 

Sextet (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)

Quintet in A for Piano and Strings (Arman)

Slavonic Dances nos. 10 & 15 (Arman)
ELGAR 

Introduction and Allegro

Serenade

Suite from the Spanish Lady

FAURÉ Requiem
FINZI Eclogue for Piano and Strings
FORSYTH Serenade
FREEDMAN, HARRY Fantasy and Allegro
GOUD, SCOTT

Anguished Grief (world premiere)
GADE Children's Christmas Eve
GERSHWIN 

It Ain't Necessarily So / Summertime / Bess You Is My Woman / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
GLAZOUNOV/LIADOW/SOKOLOV Les Vendredis Polka
GOMIDAS Armenian Folk Dances
GRANT Symphonie estrienne / Bhajan for Cello and Orchestra
GRIEG 

Holberg Suite

The Wounded Heart / The Last Spring

Anitra's Dance / Solveig's Song / Ase's Death
HANDEL The Messiah / Viola Concerto / Israel in Egypt
HATZIS Love Among the Ruins (in the aftermath of Seprtember 11)
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 28, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49

Violin Concerto in C major

Cello Concerto in D

Cello Concerto in C

Divertimento in D

The Seasons
HOLST  St. Paul’s Suite
HONEGGER Symphony No. 2
HOVHANNES 

Violin Concerto No. 2 (Toronto premiere)

Armenian Rhapsody No. 3 (Toronto premiere)
JANACEK  Idyll / Suite for Strings
JOPLIN  The Entertainer
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade Suite (Arr for strings by Nurhan Arman) (world premiere)
KREISLER

Liebesfreud / Liebesleid (Arman) / Dance Espagnole / Tango / Spanish Dance / 
KULESHA  Serenade
LEVKOVICH  Brasiliana Suite (world premiere)
LISZT 

Piano Concerto No. 1 (String orchestra arr. by Nurhan Arman)

Les maledictions

Angelus
LOCATELLI Christmas Concerto
MACDONALD, ANDREW Triangulum (Toronto premiere)

MACMILLAN, ERNEST SIR  Two Canadian Sketches
MANFREDINI Christmas Concerto
MARTINS Sinfonia No. 8 Three Dolphins Dancing on the Horizon (world premiere)
MENDELSSOHN

Violin Concerto in D minor

Concerto for Violin and Piano

Sinfonia Nos. 7, 9, 10, 12

Elijah
MERCADANTE Flute Concerto in E Minor
MIASKOWSKY Sinfonietta
MIRZOYAN 

Sinfonia for Strings and Timpani (Toronto premiere)

Tema and Variations (Toronto premiere)

Poem: Epitaph in Memory of Aram Khachaturian (Toronto premiere)
MOZART  

Symphony No. 29

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Divertimenti nos. K136, K137, K138, K251

Adagio and Fugue

Cassation No. 2 

Exultate Jubilata

Piano Concertos Nos. 9, 12, 14

Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Clarinet Concerto

Sinfonia Concertante 

Quintet in E flat major

Pantalone and Columbine

Requiem

Ave Verum

The Hunt Quartet (Arman)
NIELSEN Little Suite / Bohemian Danish Folksong Paraphrase
CHAN KA NIN The Land Beautiful
PACHELBEL Canon and Gigue
PARTOS Yizkor

PENTLAND Holiday Suite

PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
PIERNE Canzonetta
POPOVICI Codex Caioni
PREVOST Scherzo

PUCCINI  Messa di Gloria / Three Minuets / Crisantemi
PURCELL Christmas Op. 145/3
RACHMANINOV Romance and Scherzo
RAMINSH  Two Canzonas and a Fugue

RAVEL  String Quartet in F (String orchestra version by Nurhan Arman)
REBIKOFF Waltz from the Christmas Tree
REGER Christmas Music

REINECKE Serenade in g                                                                  
RESPIGHI Ancient Air and Dances Suite No. 3
ROSENBERG Suite on Popular Swedish Folk Melodies
ROSSINI  

Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 

Tema and Variations for Flute and Strings 

The Barber of Seville Overture 

ROYER Mistico / Concerto for Viola and Harpsichord (world-premiere)

SAINT-SAENS Cello Concerto in A minor (String version by Nurhan Arman)
SARASATE Zigeunerweisen (String orchestra version by Nurhan Arman)
SAVIC Clarinet Concerto (North American premiere)
SCHIASSI Christmas Symphony
SCHMIDT, HEATHER Piano Concerto No. 3 

Piano Concerto No. 6 (world-premiere)

Serenade
SCHOENBERG Transfigured Night
SCHUBERT 

Death and the Maiden

Five German Dances

Five Minuets and Six Trios

Rondo for Violin and Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH

Sinfonia op. 49a

Sinfonia op. 110

Sinfonia op. 118a  

Piano Concerto No. 1

Quartet No. 1 (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman) 

Quartet No. 11  (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)

Four Preludes, Op. 34

Chamber Symphony op. 83 (Arman)

Chamber Symphony op. 73 (Arman)
SHOUJOUNIAN  Surp Khatch Oratorio (world premiere)
SIBELIUS Rakastava / Romance
STRAUSS, RICHARD Metamorphosen (arranged for 13 solo strings by Nurhan Arman)
SUK  Serenade
TARTINI Devil's Trill (Arman)

Cello Concerto in A
TELEMANN  Don Quixote Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY 

Serenade

Souvenir de Florence

String Quartet No. 1. op. 11 (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)
TORELLI Christmas Concerto
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Charterhouse Suite / The Lark Ascending (arr. Arman)
VERDI  Symphony for Strings

VITALI/RESPIGHI Chaconne for solo violin and strings
VIVALDI The Four Seasons / Gloria

WEBER Clarinet Quintet (orchestral version)
WEINER Divertimento No. 2 in a minor
WEINZWEIG  Interlude in an Artist’s Life / Divertimento for Flute and Strings   
WIENIAWSKI  Faust Fantasy for Violin and Strings (Arranged for strings by Nurhan Arman)
WILLAN, HEALEY Poem
WIREN, DAG IVAR Serenade
WOLF-FERRARI Serenade
ZFASMAN  Intermezzo 

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