The New Music Guild’s 23rd Fall Concert opens its 2025-26 season. The guild focuses on performance of works by living composers and sponsors visits by guest composers and performers.

The fall concert will feature violinist Brendan Considine and pianist Karen Considine.

Brendan Considine plays with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, Ballet Western Reserve and Greenville Symphony Orchestra. He also serves as principal of Cardinal Mooney High School, and he has taught at Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and Westminster College.

Karen Considine also plays violin and performs with the Youngstown and Greenville symphonies as well as the Warren Philharmonic and Stellare Strings. She is choir accompanist at First Presbyterian Church of Hubbard.

The concert will open with New Music Guild coordinators Gwyneth Rollin, violin, and Robert Rollin, piano. Their performance will include Robert Rollin’s Lyric Counterpoint on a Theme by Warshawsky. The Considines will play pieces by Respighi, Bartok, Stravinsky and more as well as several Rollin works.

The concert starts at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 343 Via Mount Carmel, Youngstown. Admission is free, and a reception will follow.