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POPPER PROJECT #30: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 30 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 2,104 views The prodigal cellist returns? Filmed at my apartment in NY. Check out my website: joshuaroman.com there are some blog entries about this project there as well. The Poppe...
POPPER PROJECT #29: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 29 for cello by David Popper (the admirer) JoshuaRomanCello 6,439 views As I was practicing this one I had the image of a rather shy admirer trying to screw up the courage to knock at the door of the object of his affection. He goes through man...
Joshua Roman invites you to audition for the YouTube Symphony 2011 JoshuaRomanCello 3,681 views Cellist Joshua Roman performed Bach at Carnegie Hall for the YouTube Symphony 2009, and now invites you to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011. Find out more o...
POPPER PROJECT #28: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 28 for cello by David Popper (leaping left hand) JoshuaRomanCello 8,327 views It's fun with your eyes shut. Filmed at The Copland House in NY. Check out my website: joshuaroman.com there are some blog entries about this project there as well. The ...
POPPER PROJECT #27: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 27 for cello by David Popper (crazy fast!) JoshuaRomanCello 8,445 views Chromatic insanity, along with some of the usual jolliness in the lower register. It's fun to play this one fast. filmed in NY, NY. Check out my website: joshuaroman....
POPPER PROJECT #26: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 26 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 3,625 views Heck yeah! Something about this one is just fun to play. Although I have to say, kinda funky... you're tooling along, no rests or anything, and then all of the sudden these...
POPPER PROJECT #25: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 25 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 3,740 views This Etude filmed at the guest house at Tonella Vineyards, in Napa Valley, CA. Those are olive trees and grapevines in the background. The Popper Project is a no frills ...
POPPER PROJECT #24: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 24 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 3,569 views This Etude filmed in San Francisco, CA. Why else would I be wearing a hoodie in July? The Popper Project is a no frills journey in which every week, for 40 weeks, Joshua...
POPPER PROJECT #23: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 23 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 4,478 views In the dressing room right after playing the Saint-Saëns Concerto in A minor with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador. Elevation of the hall: around 2900 meters. ...
POPPER PROJECT #22: Joshua Roman plays Etude no. 22 for cello by David Popper JoshuaRomanCello 6,857 views Somehow the mic placement just worked! This Etude is probably my all time favorite. So elegant, so Popper. Filmed in Seattle, WA The Popper Project is a no frills jou...

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Watch here for videos of cellist Joshua Roman, including the ongoing Popper Project.

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I play the cello. A lot.

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Dubbed a "Classical Rock Star" by the press, cellist Joshua Roman has earned a national reputation for performing a wide range of repertoire with an absolute commitment to communicating the essence of the music at its most organic level. Before embarking on a solo career, he was for two seasons principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, a position he won in 2006 at the age of 22.

Roman's 2009-10 season engagements include debuts as concerto soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as with the Albany, Arkansas, and Santa Barbara Symphonies, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, the New Philharmonic Orchestra in Illinois, Oklahoma's Signature Symphony, and Kentucky's Lexington Philharmonic. In recent seasons he has performed with the Seattle Symphony, where he gave the world premiere of David Stock's Cello Concerto, as well as with the Symphonies of Edmonton, Quad City, Spokane, and Stamford, and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, among others. In 2008, Roman performed Britten's third Cello Suite during New York's Mostly Mozart Festival in a pre-concert recital at Avery Fisher Hall. In April 2009, he was the only guest artist invited to play an unaccompanied solo during the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's debut concert at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to his solo work, Roman is an avid chamber music performer. He has enjoyed collaborations with veterans like Earl Carlyss and Christian Zacharias, as well as the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the International Festival of Chamber Music in Lima, Peru. He often joins forces with other dynamic young soloists and performers from New York's contemporary music scene, including artists from Alarm Will Sound, So Percussion, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two. In spring 2007, he was named Artistic Director of TownMusic, an experimental chamber music series at Town Hall in Seattle, where he creates programs that feature new works and reflect the eclectic range of his musical influences and inspirations.

Committed to making music accessible to a wider audience, Roman may be found anywhere from a club to a classroom, whether performing jazz, rock, chamber music, or a solo sonata by Bach or Kodály. His versatility as a performer and his ongoing exploration of new concertos, chamber music, and solo cello works have spawned projects with composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Mason Bates, and Dan Visconti. One of Roman's current undertakings is an online video series called "The Popper Project": wherever the cellist and his laptop find themselves, he performs an étude from David Popper's "High School of Cello Playing" and uploads it, unedited, to his YouTube channel. Roman's outreach endeavors have taken him to Uganda with his violin-playing siblings, where they played chamber music in schools, HIV/AIDS centers, and displacement camps, communicating a message of hope through music.

The Oklahoma City native began playing the cello at the age of three on a quarter-size instrument, and played his first public recital at age ten. Home-schooled until he was 16, Roman then pursued his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Richard Aaron. Roman received his Bachelor's Degree in Cello Performance in 2004, and his Master's in 2005, as a student of Desmond Hoebig, principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Joshua Roman was named "Musical America's New Artist of the Month" in August 2009. He is grateful for the loan of an 1899 cello by Giulio Degani of Venice

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