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Sinfonia Toronto will present a colourful and varied program in a Masterpiece Series concert which 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.

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

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