Cellist Joshua Roman will join the Sewanee Summer Music Festival (SSMF) June 30–July 1 as artist-in -residence. Roman, who attended SSMF in 1998, is the first alumnus with a flourishing career to return to the Mountain during the Festival. Reviewers have described him as “a whiz-bang young soloist” and “a musician of imagination and expressive breadth.”
The Oklahoma native earned degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music prior to being named principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony. After two years, he left the position to embark on a solo career. He has played with Yo-Yo Ma at a State Department event and was a 2011 TED Fellow. Roman’s solo and chamber appearances are numerous, including New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival and Lincoln Center. He is recognized as an accomplished composer, curator and programmer.
The Sewanee Summer Music Festival will have a free concert at 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 1, in the Cowan Center for the Arts. The concert in Cowan is provided in memory of Elizabeth Haynes, who some people knew as “Franklin County’s First Lady of Music.”
Roman will be featured at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 2, in a performance at Guerry Auditorium; the program will include Roman’s own composition, “Riding Light.”
Tickets will be available at the door, or online at <www.ssmf.inticketing.com>.
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