Joshua Roman is a New York based cellist, composer, and curator whose performances embrace musical styles from Bach to Radiohead. Before making it as a successful soloist, Roman began his career at age 22 as principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony. He has since earned national renown for performing a genre-bending repertoire and wide-ranging collaborations. The current year has Roman returning to the San Francisco Symphony, the California Symphony, and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic as well as making his debut with the Detroit Symphony. As a composer, this season Roman is performing his new quintet "Tornado" with the JACK Quartet around the country, and his cello concerto "Awakening" with Teddy Abrams and the Princeton Symphony. Previously, he has also collaborated on an original work for stage (with Anna Deavere Smith), and in addition is in his tenth year as Artistic Director of Seattle Town Hall’s TownMusic series. He has performed all over the world—from refugee camps and HIV clinics in Africa to the YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the U.S. State Department (with Yo-Yo Ma for national and international leaders), and most recently on the BMW/TED Stage at IAA (International Motor Show) in Frankfurt. He plays a loaned 1899 cello made by Giulio Degani of Venice.