Guest Violinist Galo Arboleda Solzano at New Music Guild Winter Concerts
Ecuadorian violinist, Galo Arboleda Solzano is the featured guest artist at the free admission New Music Guild, Inc. Annual Winter Concerts. Pianist Patrick Wickliffe will accompany him.
The first concert will be 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 18th, 2019 at Saints Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington Street in downtown Youngstown. If you take Lincoln Ave. west from 5th Ave. on the YSU Campus, it intersects Covington after about half a mile. The brown brick Art Nouveau church has an attractive steeple and will be on your right. It is a gorgeous acoustic space.
The second concert will be 7:00 p.m. Saturday, January 19th, 2019 at Jefferson Congregational Church (UCC), an attractive small red brick church built in 1835.
It is at 41 East Jefferson Street in Jefferson, Ohio. It is an intimate space with excellent acoustics. Both churches will sponsor special receptions in honor of Arboleda Solzano and Wickliffe.
The concerts will include works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, composer/violinist Fritz Kreisler, Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Youngstown State University Professor Emeritus, Robert Rollin, and Ecuadorian folk music arranged by Galo Arboleda Solzano.
Born in Quito, Equador, Arboleda studied at the National Conservatory of Music and was a member of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under the distinguished conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. He was featured soloist in the Bach Double Concerto with renowned violinist Shlomo Mintz.
Now a candidate for the Kent State University Masters Degree in Violin Performance, he studies with Cathy Meng Robinson, founder of the Miami String Quartet and Cleveland Orchestra Associate Concertmaster, Amy Lee. Among recent honors were serving as concertmaster of the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, solo performances of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Violin Concertos with the Stow Symphony, and laureate of the Kent State Concerto Competition.
Pianist Patrick Wickliffe studied with distinguished teachers at the Cleveland Institute, Oberlin Conservatory, and Kent State University. In addition to a career as pianist and accompanist, he worked in the church music field for the past ten years and currently serves as Coordinator of Music Ministry at Chagrin Falls’ Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church.
Arboleda and Wickliffe will perform Rollin’s Rhapsody on Themes by Rachmaninoff for violin and piano. The work is based on themes from Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos. Other Rollin works will include contrapuntal settings of Puerto Rican, Welsh, and Jewish folk songs.
New Music Guild Fall Concerts Feature Sobieska & Two Other Guest Artists
Violinist/Violist Wanda Sobieska returns as Annual Fall Concerts featured guest artist to open the New Music Guild, Inc. season with two free admission events. Pianist Anthony Ruggiero and clarinetist Marissa Lyerly will assist her.
Violinist/Violist Wanda Sobieska returns as Annual Fall Concerts featured guest artist to open the New Music Guild, Inc. season with two free admission events. Pianist Anthony Ruggiero and clarinetist Marissa Lyerly will assist her.
The first concert will be 7:00 p.m. Friday December 7th, 2018 at Saints Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington Street in downtown Youngstown. If you take Lincoln Ave. west from 5th Ave. on the YSU Campus, it intersects Covington after about half a mile. The brown brick Art Nouveau church has an attractive steeple and will be on your right. It is a gorgeous acoustic space.
The second concert will be 7:00 p.m. Saturday December 8th, 2018 at Jefferson Congregational Church (UCC), an attractive small red brick church built in 1835.
It is at 41 East Jefferson Street in Jefferson, Ohio. It is an intimate space with excellent acoustics. Both churches will sponsor special receptions in honor of Sobieska, Ruggiero, and Lyerly.
The concerts will include Henryk Wieniawski’s Polonaise in D Major, Bela Bartok’s Duet No. 21 Greeting for the New Year, works by Youngstown State University Professor Emeritus, Robert Rollin, and more.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Sobieska belongs to the fifth generation of a family of musicians and musicologists. She has appeared as solo and chamber musician in the United States, Poland, and Canada. She regularly plays in many professional orchestras. She began studying violin at the age of five, and attended the Grazyna Bacewicz School of Music in Warsaw, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she earned her Bachelor’s in Violin Performance summa cum laude.
Sobieska is also a gifted arranger and has studied composition for many years. Recent arranging engagements include commissions by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and the English Symphony Orchestra. In 2009 she launched www.freegigmusic.com, a website dedicated to making much-needed sheet music available to working musicians. Featuring her own practical arrangements of commonly requested pieces available for free while adhering to standards of high quality, the site has a surprisingly large following worldwide.
Dana alumni Anthony Ruggiero is an exceptionally talented pianist, organist, and choir director who has worked at many churches in Northeast Ohio and Florida.
Currently a Dana Faculty member, he is known for his accuracy and expressiveness as a performer. Melissa Lyerly is completing her clarinet Master of Music performance degree in Clarinet under her mentor, Professor Alice Wang and has played next to her in the Opera Western Reserve Orchestra. She has served as principal clarinet of the Dana Wind Ensemble, the Dana Symphony Orchestra, and in University Opera Productions. Her passion for the clarinet includes a strong interest in chamber music.
Sobieska is making a new arrangement for the trio performers. It will be a version from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata, Wachet Auf, also known as Sleepers Wake. There will also be selections appropriate to the Christmas season.
The trio will also perform Dana Emeritus Professor Robert Rollin’s Trio on a Poem by D. H. Lawrence. Ruggiero will perform several of Rollin’s solo piano compositions. Lyerly will play the Youngstown premiere of Rollin’s The Gifts of Spring for solo Bb Clarinet originally composed for Kent faculty clarinetist Amitai Vardi.
