Fireworks! Bravura Show-Stoppers at Sinfonia Toronto
FIREWORKS! BRAVURA SHOW-STOPPERS AT SINFONIA TORONTO
Sinfonia Toronto’Äôs April 9th ’ÄòFavourite Fireworks’Äô Masterpiece Series concert is a light-hearted mix of violin and piano pyrotechnics. The concert features Sinfonia Toronto’Äôs Composer-in-Residence Heather Schmidt as pianist, playing her own brilliant new concerto and some favourite showpieces with Sinfonia Toronto violinist Xiaohan Guo. Orchestra’Äôs Music Director Nurhan Arman will conduct.
Composer Heather Schmidt lives a busy dual life as a sought-after concert pianist and a prolific composer of concert music and film scores. She has been nominated for the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, won the Julliard Composers’Äô Competition, two SOCAN Composer’Äôs Competitions and 3 consecutive BMI Awards. In the past decade, Dr. Schmidt has received over forty commissions and recorded for NAXOS and CBC Records. At this concert Ms. Schmidt will give the Toronto premiere of her Piano Concerto No. 6.
Born in China, Violinist Xiaohan Guo began her studies at the age of six and enrolled at the Shenyang Conservatory at 13. She won the 2001 Mozart Violin Concerto Competition, and as a member of the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra she performed with outstanding musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Seiji Ozawa and Mstislav Rostropovich. She arrived in Canada in 2004 to study with Eleonora Turovsky at the Universitˆ© de Montreal and has been a first violinist with Sinfonia Toronto since 2008.
Sinfonia Toronto is comprised of thirteen virtuoso string players, and is ’Äúa world-class ensemble’Äù according to Germany’Äôs Russelsheimer Echo. They perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Nurhan Arman. 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." Their most recent CD, Flanders Fields Reflections won the 2009 Juno Award as ’ÄòBest recording of a Canadian Classical Composition’Äô. The CD features music of John Burge.
The programme for the evening includes Mozart’Äôs Divertimento K 138, Saint-Saens’Äô Caprice, Franz Waxman’Äôs Carmen Fantasy, Astor Piazzolla’Äôs Four for Tango and Shostakovich’Äôs Prelude and Scherzo.
Tickets for this concert are $12 - $40 and are available through the Roy Thomson Hall box office at www.roythomson.com, 416-872-4255. Visit www.sinfoniatoronto.com for more information.
Details at a glance
Apr 9, 2010, 8 pm
Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front St. W)
SINFONIA TORONTO
NURHAN ARMAN, Conductor
HEATHER SCHMIDT, Pianist
XIAOHAN GUO, Violinist
Sinfonia Toronto’Äôs April 9th ’ÄòFavourite Fireworks’Äô Masterpiece Series concert is a light-hearted mix of violin and piano pyrotechnics. The concert features Sinfonia Toronto’Äôs Composer-in-Residence Heather Schmidt as pianist, playing her own brilliant new concerto and some favourite showpieces with Sinfonia Toronto violinist Xiaohan Guo. Orchestra’Äôs Music Director Nurhan Arman will conduct.
Composer Heather Schmidt lives a busy dual life as a sought-after concert pianist and a prolific composer of concert music and film scores. She has been nominated for the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, won the Julliard Composers’Äô Competition, two SOCAN Composer’Äôs Competitions and 3 consecutive BMI Awards. In the past decade, Dr. Schmidt has received over forty commissions and recorded for NAXOS and CBC Records. At this concert Ms. Schmidt will give the Toronto premiere of her Piano Concerto No. 6.
Born in China, Violinist Xiaohan Guo began her studies at the age of six and enrolled at the Shenyang Conservatory at 13. She won the 2001 Mozart Violin Concerto Competition, and as a member of the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra she performed with outstanding musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Seiji Ozawa and Mstislav Rostropovich. She arrived in Canada in 2004 to study with Eleonora Turovsky at the Universitˆ© de Montreal and has been a first violinist with Sinfonia Toronto since 2008.
Sinfonia Toronto is comprised of thirteen virtuoso string players, and is ’Äúa world-class ensemble’Äù according to Germany’Äôs Russelsheimer Echo. They perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Nurhan Arman. 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." Their most recent CD, Flanders Fields Reflections won the 2009 Juno Award as ’ÄòBest recording of a Canadian Classical Composition’Äô. The CD features music of John Burge.
The programme for the evening includes Mozart’Äôs Divertimento K 138, Saint-Saens’Äô Caprice, Franz Waxman’Äôs Carmen Fantasy, Astor Piazzolla’Äôs Four for Tango and Shostakovich’Äôs Prelude and Scherzo.
Tickets for this concert are $12 - $40 and are available through the Roy Thomson Hall box office at www.roythomson.com, 416-872-4255. Visit www.sinfoniatoronto.com for more information.
Details at a glance
Apr 9, 2010, 8 pm
Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front St. W)
SINFONIA TORONTO
NURHAN ARMAN, Conductor
HEATHER SCHMIDT, Pianist
XIAOHAN GUO, Violinist
Suggested headline
Fireworks! Bravura show-stoppers at Sinfonia Toronto
ProgrammeMOZART Divertimento K 138
SAINT-SAENS Caprice
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasy
SCHMIDT Piano Concerto No. 6 - Toronto Premiere!
PIAZZOLLA Four for Tango
SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Scherzo
Tickets: Roy Thomson Hall Box Office 416-872-4255 www.roythomson.com
$12 students; $32 seniors and $40 adults
ProgrammeMOZART Divertimento K 138
SAINT-SAENS Caprice
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasy
SCHMIDT Piano Concerto No. 6 - Toronto Premiere!
PIAZZOLLA Four for Tango
SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Scherzo
Tickets: Roy Thomson Hall Box Office 416-872-4255 www.roythomson.com
$12 students; $32 seniors and $40 adults
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