New Music Guild plans concert with 2 guest performers

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Thomas Osuga and Galo Arboleda Solorzano will be the guest performers at the 35th annual New Music Guild gala concert at 7 p.m. May 24 at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 421 Covington St.

Admission is free, and there will be a catered reception after the gala concert.

Osuga is a pianist and an alumnus of the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University, and Solorzano, an Ecuadorian, is a violinist.

Osuga has been a faculty member at New York’s Mannes College of Music since 1994. He performs new works on concerts in major New York venues and maintains a large private piano studio in upper Manhattan.

Solorzano, a Kent State graduate, is no stranger to Youngstown. Last year the NMG Festival Chamber Orchestra premiered his Adagietto for Strings, a beautiful slow, lyrical piece.

He has composed a new piece entitled “Elegy for French Horn and Strings” for the NMG Festival Chamber Orchestra. Dan Fackler, who has played horn with the Woody Hermann Thundering Horde in the group’s Silver Anniversary Tour, will be soloist.

Cleveland Composers Guild member Ryan Charles Ramer’s “Cat & Mouse” for string orchestra will receive its string orchestra version premiere by the festival orchestra.

A piece written by Robert Rollin, YSU professor emeritus, titled “Eli Ata, A Chassidic Song,” will have its world premiere.