Guests From Europe - Sinfonia Toronto Concert December 12, 2008

Sinfonia Toronto will present a colourful and varied program in a Masterpiece Series concert on Friday, December 12 at 8 pm. The concert will take place under the baton of guest conductor Rista Savic at Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road).

The concert titled ‘Guests from Europe’ will feature Slovenian clarinet virtuoso Darko Brlek performing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in an orchestral version.
Clarinetist Darko Brlek has performed throughout Europe and in many distinguished musical centres all over the world. As a soloist he performed with radio Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Sinfonia Toronto, Mannheim Kammerorchester, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Bashmet’s Moscow Soloists, Cannes Symphony Orchestra, Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Philip Emanuel Bach Orchestra Berlin, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. He has recorded for the Slovenian and Bosnian Radio and TV, for the French and Spanish national radio houses and for the HSR, BR, SRT, ORF, RAI and Mexican television. He has also recorded several compact discs.
Conductor Rista Savic, has been guest conductor with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Archi della Scala Milano, Torino Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Peking Philharmonic, the Shenzhen (China) Symphony Orchestra, the Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Toronto, the Constance Southwest German Philharmonic, the Bari Symphony Orchestra, the Long Mount Symphony (Colorado, USA), the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Pilsen, the Florence Chamber Orchestra, the United Europe Chamber Orchestra Milano, the Virtuosi di Praga, the Philharmonic Orchestra Cluj, the Rio Camerata (Brazil) and many others. Since 2001 Rista Savic has been the principal conductor of the German Chamber Orchestra Frankfurt am Main and also the First Guest Conductor of the China Peking Philharmonic.
In addition to Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet, the concert will feature selections from Grieg’s colourful Peer Gynt Suite, Holst’s St. Paul Suite as well as one of Mendelssohn’s brilliant string works Sinfonia No. 10. Toronto composer Ronald Royer’s Mistico will open this varied program.
There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, guest-conductor and soloist.

Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 416-499-0403 or at the door.

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