Sinfonia Toronto performs its Masterpiece Series of concerts in the acoustical splendor of the Grace Church on-the-Hill 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.  

Each season, Sinfonia Toronto’s Masterpiece Series concerts are 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, Stepan Arman, 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 / Roumanian Folk Dances
BEETHOVEN  Triple Concerto for Violin, Piano and Cello / Piano Concerto No. 2 / Quartet op. 95 (Serioso)   
                  Grosse Fugue op. 133 / Serenade / Quartet op. 135 (Arman)   
BENDA, FRANZ Sinfonia in C
BIBER  Battalia Suite
BOCCHERINI  Cello Concerto in B-flat major (Arranged 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)
ELGAR Introduction and Allegro / Serenade / Suite from the Spanish Lady
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
HANDEL The Messiah / Viola Concerto 
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 Concert in D and C / Divertimento in D
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
JOPLIN  The Entertainer
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade Suite (Arranged for strings by Nurhan Arman) (world premiere)
KREISLER Liebesfreud / Liebesleid (Arman)
KULESHA  Serenade
LEVKOVICH  Brasiliana Suite (world premiere)
LISZT  Les maledictions / Angelus
LOCATELLI Christmas Concerto
MACDONALD, ANDREW Triangulum (Toronto premiere)
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 No. 7, 9, 12
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)
MORAWETZ Divertimento
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 for Violin and Viola / Quintet in E flat major / Pantalone and Columbine / Requiem / Ave Verum
NIELSEN Little Suite / Bohemian Danish Folksong Paraphrase
CHAN KA NIN The Land Beautiful
PACHELBEL Canon and Gigue
PARTOS Yizkor

PENTLAND Holiday Suite
PIERNE   Canzonetta
POPOVICI Codex Caioni
PREVOST Scherzo / Hommage
PURCELL Christmas Op. 145/3
RACHMANINOV Romance and Scherzo
RAMINSH  Two Canzonas and a Fugue
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 
SARASATE Zigeunerweisen (String orchestra version by Nurhan Arman)
SAVIC Clarinet Concerto (North American premiere)
SCHIASSI Christmas Symphony
SCHMIDT, HEATHER  Piano Concerto No. 3 
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)
SHOUJOUNIAN   Surp Khatch Oratorio (world premiere)
SIBELIUS  Rakastava / Romance / Voces Intmae (Arman)
STRAUSS, RICHARD Metamorphosen (arranged for 13 solo strings by Nurhan Arman)
SUK  Serenade
TARTINI Devil's Trill (Arman)
TELEMANN  Don Quixote Suite
TCHAIKOWSKY Serenade / Souvenir de Florence / String Quartet No. 1. op. 11 (orchestral version by Nurhan Arman)
TORELLI Christmas Concerto
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Charterhouse Suite
VERDI  Symphony for Strings
VIVALDI The Four Seasons / Gloria
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