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New Music Guild preps 39th festival gala

The 39th New Music Guild Festival will conclude with a gala concert on Sunday.

Robert Rollin will conduct the Festival Chamber Orchestra, which will be joined by guest artists Konrad Bienienda, Wanda Sobieska, Brendan Considine and Karen Considine.

The concert will include works by Bienienda, Sobieska, Rollin, Wolfgang Mozart, Christopher Wilson, Pietro Mascagni and others.

Binienda is a classical concert pianist, recording artist, composer and pedagogue. He earned his doctorate in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Hae Sun Paik. He also is a graduate from the Harvard/New England Conservatory Joint Degree Program, majoring in physics and piano, where he studied with Wha-Kyung Byun. He specializes in the music of Fryderyk Chopin.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Wanda Sobieska is the fifth generation in a family of musicians and musicologists. She provided arrangements for Sunday’s concert and for many professional groups, and runs freegigmusic.com, a website that provides sheet music arrangements.It has served more than 6 million musicians worldwide since its inception in 2009.

Brendan Considine, violin, plays with the Greenville and Youngstown symphony orchestras, the Warren Philharmonic and Opera Western Reserve.

He also is an administrator with eight years of teaching experience in Youngstown and Alliance Schools, as administrator and classroom supervisor with The Rich Autism Center and currently as executive director of the Mahoning Valley Montessori School. He has taught violin and string pedagogy at Thiel and Westminster colleges and at Youngstown State University.

Karen Considine is active as a violinist and pianist and performs with the Youngstown and Greenville symphony orchestras, Warren Philharmonic and Stellare Strings. She is choir accompanist at First Presbyterian Church in Hubbard.

The Considines will play several school concerts this week for area students leading up to the festival gala concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 343 Via Mount Carmel, Youngstown. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served in honor of the guest artists.

For more, go to www.newmusicsociety.net.

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