March 3rd Annual Winter Concert with Sylvia Games DuBos & Helga Scheibert
The New Music Guild, Inc. will present its Winter Concert at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington St. in downtown Youngstown, at 3:00 pm, Sunday, March 3rd, 2024. The Guild focuses on 20th and 21st Century music, but also highlights classical music and sponsors visits by guest composers and performers.
The Sunday afternoon concert will feature two guest artists: Argentinean cellist, Silvia Games DuBos and Pittsburgh pianist/composer, Helga Scheibert, playing music by classical and modern composers.
Ms. Games DuBos is an Argentinian cellist living in the United States since 2006. Silvia Games DuBos is currently the principal cellist of the Washington, PA, and Greenville, PA Symphonies and cello section of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. Ms. DuBos has performed nationally and internationally as a chamber musician, orchestra musician, and teacher in the United States, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador, among other countries with her recent participation in the Latin American Symphony, an event held in Córdoba Argentina in February 2024.
Currently, she teaches the Strings Program at SMARTS, a community art school in Youngstown, OH, working with K-12 students and has her private studios in the Pittsburgh, PA, and Youngstown, OH areas, applying traditional and Suzuki as methods of teaching. She has a Master’s Degree in Performance from Duquesne University.
Pittsburgh Pianist/Composer, Dr. Helga Scheibert was born and had early studies in Transylvania, completed the Bachelors in Romania, the Artist Diploma and Masters at Duquesne, University and the Piano Performance Doctorate at West Virginia University. She has performed on Romanian National and West Virginia Public Radio, and is winner of numerous competitions. She is an active composer with special interests in classical, jazz, and contemporary music. Since 2020 she has released 2 albums of her own works.
The concert will open with performances by New Music Guild Coordinators, Gwyneth Rollin, violin and Robert Rollin, piano. They will together play Robert Rollin’s Welsh Song, a setting of David of the White Rock, which he learned from Ieuan Roberts, his wife’s father, and his Passover Songs, a setting of 2 folk melodies sung at the Seder. Rollin will perform his Recollections of Sally, in memory of close friend, talented violinist & choral director, Sally Maloy Dolovy & Night Thoughts I. Gains DuBos and Scheibert will perform Carlos Guastavino’s, La Rosa y El Sauce and Victor Simon’s Inattendu, both mainstays of the Argentinian repertoire, Rollin’s Spiritual Images, based on gospel music, the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata No.3, and Rollin’s Two Corridos, settings of Mexican folk songs. As soloist Du Bos will play part of Bach’s Cello Suite, the world premiere of Rollin’s In Memory of Wayne, for his good friend trombonist Wayne Kankovsky, and his Memorial Melodies and Remembering Sally. Scheibert will play her own, Magic in the Forrest.
An after party with refreshments in honor of Silvia Games DuBos and Dr. Helga Scheibert will take place at the Church basement fellowship hall immediately following the Sunday afternoon concert.
New Music Guild Season Opens with Nov. 12 Annual Fall Concert Showcasing Silvia Games DuBos & Patrick Wickliffe
The New Music Guild, Inc. will open its 2023-24 season at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington St. in downtown Youngstown, at 3:00 pm, Sunday, November 12th, 2023 with a multifaceted concert. The Guild focuses on performance of works by living composers and sponsors visits by guest composers and performers. The season culminates with the nationally recognized Annual May Festival that includes concerts and lectures as well as elementary and high school educational events.
The Sunday afternoon concert will feature two guest artists: cellist Silvia Games DuBos and pianist Patrick Wickliffe, playing music by classical and modern composers.
Mrs. Games DuBos is an Argentinian cellist residing in the USA, since 2006. As one of the Directors and Organizers of the ArsDocta International Music Festival, Mrs. Games Dubos is dedicated to promoting and supporting young talents from over the world.
From an early age, she has been sharing the performance and teaching activities in institutions such as the Suzuki Method of Cordoba and Buenos Aires National Conservatory (IUNA), Argentina, Duquesne University, as well as at the Eleazar de Carvalho Summer Music Festival (Brazil), ArsDocta Music Festival (France, Argentina, USA), and Festival Quito Cellos (Ecuador). She has played as principal cellist at Duquesne University Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, as well as at the Chamber and Symphony Orchestras of the Lanus National University .
At the present, she is the Principal Cello of Washington Symphony, PA and at the Greenville Symphony, PA respectively and cello section of Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.
With extensive experience in teaching to students of all ages in Argentina, The USA, Brazil, South America , and France, Mrs. DuBos combines a range of experience with the ability to be a comprehensive and enthusiastic teacher who always makes a positive contribution to the students. Being fluent in Spanish and English allows her to have a wide spectrum of students and work in conjunction with the students’ cultures and languages. At the present, she is String Program faculty at SMARTS, a Community Art school in Youngstown, OH, working with students K-12 and has her private studios in the Pittsburgh, PA, and Youngstown, OH areas, applying traditional and Suzuki as teaching teaching.
Mrs. Games DuBos lives in Campbell, OH with her husband Nicholas DuBos with whom shares a passion for Music, Art, and traveling and their cat Blondie.
Collaborative pianist and composer, Patrick Wickliffe holds Master and Doctorate Composition degrees form Kent State and the University of Cincinnati. For the last ten years he has been active as a church musician in greater Cleveland. He is a gifted accompanist and solo artist.
The concert will open with performances by New Music Guild Coordinators, Gwyneth Rollin, violin and Robert Rollin, piano. They will play several of Rollin’s works including Night Thoughts I, Lyric Counterpoint on a Theme by Warshawsky, and Seven Sound-Images; Gaines DuBos will reprise Remembering Sally, for solo cello, recollections of talented violinist Sally Moloy Dolovy and will premiere a new composition in memory Rollin’s longtime friend, Wayne Kankovsky, who was a fine trombonist and community activist. Gains DuBos and Wickliffe will perform an Argentinian Tango, a movement by Bach, and two Rollin pieces.
An after party with refreshments in honor of Silvia Games DuBos And Patrick Wickliffe will take place at the Church basement fellowship hall immediately following the Sunday afternoon concert.
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