Event

TownMusic: 'Duo'

Joshua Roman, the 23-year-old principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has joined Town Hall as artistic director of TownMusic, Town Hall's exploratory classical music series. Dubbed a "classical music rock star" by KUOW, Roman's interests extend into the baroque, classical, jazz and rock repertoires; in a head crowded with many musical voices, he finds his own as a performer and a programmer through confidence, passion, and technique. Reflecting his view that "excellence is where you hear it," his debut season is a highly personal expression of his many influences; it's a season of music he loves. Joshua Roman concludes his first season with an evening of virtuosic duo performance with many of his musical friends. Roman performs with Laura DeLuca (clarinet), Sarah Rudinoff (vocals), Mikhail Shmidt (violin), Walter Gray, Roberta Downey, Chuck Jacot, and Rajan Krishnaswami (cello quartet), and others to be announced. The fireworks include works by more of Roman's favorite composers: Derek Bermel, Zhou Long (of the Silk Road Project), Joni Mitchell, and Johan Halvorson's arrangement of Handel's Passacaglia, and much more.