New Music Guild preps winter concert
A husband-and-wife duo will be guest artists for the New Music Guild’s winter concert.
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 concert will open with performances by New Music Guild coordinators Gwyneth Rollin, violin, and Robert Rollin, piano.
They will play several of Robert Rollin’s works including Lyric Counterpoint on a Theme by Warshawsky, Two Melodies about Elijah, and Hebraic Prayer. Rollin will perform his Night Thoughts II and Teasing Folk Song Mash-Up.
The Considines will play several Rollin works, Youngstown composer Richard Zacharias’ Sonata for Violin and Piano, as well as pieces by Mozart, Bach, Vince Guaraldi and others.
The concert starts at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the basement social hall of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 343 Via Mt. Carmel, Youngstown. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.