FLUTE MAGIC Vivaldi Ho Janacek

Sinfonia Toronto shines in romantic gems, and two star flutists team up to play Vivaldi and premiere composer Alice Ho's Celestial Concerto

Thurs day, November 6 , 2025, 7:30 pm, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St. West

FLUTE MAGIC Vivaldi | Ho | Janacek

Two star flutists team up to premiere Alice Ho's Celestial Concerto and sparkle

in a Vivaldi favourite; the orchestra shines in Romantic masterpieces

SINFONIA TORONTO / NURHAN ARMAN Conductor

LUISA SELLO / SUSAN HOEPPNER Flutists

Program

GLAZOUNOV Theme and Variations for String Orchestra, Op.97

VIVALDI Concerto for 2 Flutes in C major

ALICE PING YEE HO Celestial Concerto for 2 Flutes and Strings world premiere

VIVALDI Sinfonia in G major, RV 146

JANACEK Suite

Alice Ping Yee Ho's 'Celestial Concerto' is commissioned by Sinfonia Toronto and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES

Susan Hoeppner - Canadian flutist Susan Hoeppner is an international soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, with appearances in North and South America, Europe, Japan and China. Ms. Hoeppner has performed as soloist with orchestras around the world. Her many recordings are on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and on labels, including Marquis Classics, EMI, Centrediscs/Naxos and Grammophon BIS.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ms. Hoeppner offers masterclasses and teaches at the Glenn Gould School, The Taylor Academy of the Royal Conservatory, and at the University of Toronto. During the summers she teaches at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix in Canada and at the Campus Internazionale della Musica d'Arte in Italy.

Luisa Sello, Flutist - Italian flutist Luisa Sello has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Eastern Europe and in many Asian countries. Luisa Sello has been a guest of the Wiener Symphoniker, Salzburger Krammerorchester Orchestra of the “Teatro alla Scala” in Milan under Riccardo Muti. A visiting professor at the University of Music of Vienna, she has been invited to give master classes at the universities of Koln, Aachen, Moscow, Madrid, Miami, Tallin, Zagreb, Peking, Shanghai and Buenos Aires.

Luisa Sello has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Italy and Paris where she studied flute and contemporary and Baroque performance practice. She has studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot, at the Accademia Chigiana with Severino Gazzelloni and at the Académie Internationale of Nice with Alain Marion.

Sinfonia Toronto , now in its 27th season, has toured twice in Europe, in the US, South America and China, receiving glowing reviews. It has released six 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.

Maestro Nurhan Arman has conducted throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the US, 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, Arpeggione Kammerorchester, Milano Classica and Belgrade Philharmonic.