Pianist Thomas Osuga and violinist Sho Omagari will perform this weekend as part of the 37th New Music Guild Festival.

Osuga was a music theory and composition student of Dana Professor Emeritus Robert Rollin, coordinator of the New Music Guild. Osuga has been on the faculty of New York City’s Mannes College and co-coordinator of the preparatory piano division since 1994. He maintains a large private studio in upper Manhattan. His students regularly pursue careers at top levels conservatories, colleges, and graduate schools.

An internationally acclaimed solo and chamber artist, he is founder and artistic director of Aurista Chamber Music and the organizer of international music festivals in Italy and Germany. He has recorded for the Capstone, Legacy and Coronet labels.

Osuga is a 1980 Lakeview High School graduate and a class co-valedictorian.

The German-born Omagari began performing at age 5. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Mannes College, his master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music and a doctorate in violin from the State University of New York at Stony Brook

He has won numerous prestigious awards and was the first recipient of the Circle of Wind Music Scholarship Award in memory of the victims of 9/11 and the 3/11 Japanese Earthquake. His oceanliner performance in memory of Titanic victims was broadcast worldwide.

They will do school performances for students in Canfield and Lordstown and do a public performance at 7 p.m. Friday at Youngstown State University’s St. John Henry Newman Center, 254 Madison Ave. They will joined by NMG coordinators Gwyneth Rollin, violin, and Robert Rollin, piano.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are recommended by emailing Carly Koewacich at office@catholicpenguins.org.

Osuga and Omagari will perform for the festival gala at 3 p.m. Sunday at SS. Peter & Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington St., Youngstown. They will present works by Bach Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky and Robert Rollin.

The Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Rollin will perform works by Mozart, Gustav Holst, Piotr Maszynski, Kent composer / arranger Wanda Sobieska, Rollin and others.

A catered reception will follow Sunday’s performance. Admission is free.