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Violin Magic
Presented by: Sinfonia Toronto

Sinfonia Toronto Masterpiece Concert titled Violin Magic’will feature the orchestra’s concertmaster Violinist Mary-Elizabeth Brown in Schubert’s playful Rondo and Sarasate’s virtuoso showpiece Gypsy Airs.

The concert In addition to her position as concertmaster of Sinfonia Toronto, Mary-Elizabeth is currently Associate Concertmaster of Orchestra London Canada as well as Concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. In June 2007 she assumed a new position as Principal Second Violinist of the Britten-Pears orchestra in Aldeburgh, England. She has played under distinguished conductors such as Kryszstof Penderecki, Lorin Maazel, Benjamin Zander, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Isaac Karabtchevsky and Placido Domingo.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the University of Toronto, the City of London, DePaul University, the Hazel Crydermann-Wees Foundation, the Université de Montréal, Fonds des Amis de l'Art and the American Suzuki Foundation. She has soloed in masterclasses with Regis Pasqier, Pierre Amoyal, Sylvia Rosenberg, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman and the late Lorand Fenyves, among others. She has appeared with the London Youth Symphony, Orchestra London Canada and the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, she has been heard on CBC Radio and at major festivals across Canada including the Scotia Festival, Le Festival Internationale du Domaine Forget and the Banff Summer Arts Festival. She has worked with members of the St. Lawrence, Orford, Artur Leblanc and Brentano Quartets as well as the Gryphon Trio, William Aide and Laurence Lesser. A two-time laureate of the Canadian Music Competition National Finals, she plays on a 1737 Guidantus violin and an F.N. Voirin bow on loan from the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Other works on the program are Janacek’s brilliant Suite and Dvorak’s romantic Serenade.

There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, conductor and soloists.

Music Director, Nurhan Arman will conduct.

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Runs: Nov 14, 2008
At: Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd, Toronto
Playing: Friday

Times: 8 pm
Cost: Online discount tickets: $35, $27 senior, $7 student or regular price by phone or at the door.

Getting there: To get to Grace Church by public transport, use the subway to get to the St. Clair station on the Yonge line. Transfer to the streetcar and travel west on St. Clair to Russell Hill Road. Then walk north 2 blocks to Lonsdale Road. Or travel to the St. Clair West station and use the streetcar to travel east to the corner of Russell Hill and St. Clair. On weekdays only, the Forest Hill bus leaves the St. Clair West station every 20 minutes and travels north on Spadina, stopping at the corner of Lonsdale one block from the church. Parking can be found on-street at most times of day. Paid parking is available on Lonsdale, and free parking on Russell Hill southbound weekdays and weekends, or northbound after business hours on weekdays. On Sunday, the parking places in front of Bishop Strachan School on the northeast corner of Lonsdale are also available for use by churchgoers.

For more information contact: Margaret Chasins
Phone: 416-499-0403
Email: sinfoniatoronto@sympatico.ca

Web site: www.sinfoniatoronto.com

 
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