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Violinist featured at New Music Guild events

Ecuadorian violinist Galo Arboleda Solzano will play two New Music Guild concerts this weekend.

Currently pursuing his master’s degree in violin performance at Kent State University, he previously studied at the National Conservatory of Music and was a member of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under the distinguished conductor, Gustavo Dudamel.

Recent honors include serving as concertmaster of the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, performances with the Stow Symphony and laureate of the Kent State Concerto Competition.

He will be accompanied by pianist Patrick Wickliffe, who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory and Kent State University. In addition to a career as pianist and accompanist, he worked in the church music field for the past 10 years and serves as coordinator of music ministry at Chagrin Falls’ Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church.

The duo will perform “Rhapsody on Themes by Rachmaninoff” for violin and piano by Robert Rollin, professor emeritus at Youngstown State University. The work is based on themes from Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos. Other Rollin works will include contrapuntal settings of Puerto Rican, Welsh, and Jewish folk songs.

Also on the program will be works by Sibelius, Kreisler, Mozart and Bach along with Ecuadorian folk music arranged by Solzano.

Concerts are scheduled at 7 p.m. Friday at SS. Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington St., Youngstown, and 7 p.m. Saturday at Jefferson Congregational Church, 41, E. Jefferson St., Jefferson. Admission is free, and receptions will follow both performances.

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