VIRTUOSITY - Sinfonia Toronto Concert
SINFONIA TORONTO OPENS NEW SEASON
Sinfonia Toronto will open its 17th season with a brilliant concert titled ‘Virtuosity’ featuring the extraordinary Canadian pianist Dmitri Levkovich on Saturday, October 24, 8 pm. The orchestra’s Music Director Nurhan Arman will step onto the podium in George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts to conduct a program ranging from Beethoven’s first piano concerto to the North American premiere of Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov’s brilliant Chamber Symphony No. 4.
Commenting on the program Nurhan Arman said: “I am thrilled to be conducting this program with just two amazing and contrasting works. Pianist Dmitri Levkovich had an incredibly successful collaboration with us three seasons ago, so I wanted to invite him again. Montreal composer Ichmouratov is a fascinating talent. Last season when we premiered his Chamber Symphony No. 3 audience couldn’t get enough of it and were asking for more works by him. So now we’ll be playing the North American premiere of this brilliant symphony”.
Dmitri Levkovich’s performances have taken him to every continent except Africa. He has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals including the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Carnegie Hall in New York and Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. He has appeared as a soloist with numerous ensembles, among them the Cleveland Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, Sinfonia Toronto, the China National Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Portugal. Many of his performances have been broadcast on television and radio.
Now in its 17th season, Sinfonia Toronto has toured in United States and twice in Europe, receiving glowing reviews. It has released four CD’s, including a JUNO Award winner, and performs in many Ontario cities. Its extensive repertoire includes all the major string orchestra works of the 18th through 21st centuries, and it has premiered many new works. Under the baton of Nurhan Arman the orchestra’s performances present outstanding international guest artists and prominent Canadian musicians.
Nurhan Arman has conducted throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the United States, returning regularly to many orchestras in Europe. Among the orchestras Maestro Arman has conducted are the Moscow Philharmonic, Deutsches Kammerorchester Frankfurt, Filarmonica Italiana, St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra, Orchestre Regional d’Ile de France, Hungarian Symphony, Milano Classica and Belgrade Philharmonic.
Tickets are $42 adult; $35 senior and $15 student. They can be purchased by phone at 1-855-985-2787 or online at http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com/
Subscriptions to Sinfonia Toronto’s seven-concert Masterpiece Series are available from http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com/ or from 416-499-0403 with an additional $10 per subscription for phone orders.
Details at a glance:
VIRTUOSITY
Saturday, October 24, 2015 Toronto Centre for the Arts
SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
DMITRI LEVKOVICH Pianist
“One of the important romantic pianists of the 21st Century”
and a brilliant new Canadian symphony
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
ICHMOURATOV Chamber Symphony No. 4 North American premiere
Tickets: $42 ad; $35 senior; $15 student 1-855-985-2787 or online
