Joshua Roman will join the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera on Thursday, Nov. 17, playing Elgar’s contemplative Cello Concerto.If you go
* What: Chattanooga Symphony & Opera perform’s Tchaikovshy Symphony No. 5 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with special guest cellist Joshua Roman.* When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17.* Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.* Admission: $21-$83.* Phone: 423-267-8583.* Website: www.chattanoogasymphony.org.
Cellist Joshua Roman has been hailed as a young new face of classical music for more than a decade. At 22, he became the principal cellist for the Seattle Symphony and later was artistic director of TownMusic and artistic adviser for Seattle’s Second Inversion.
Now at the ripe old age of 32, he wonders if the word “young” should be removed from his marketing material.
“Yeah, my manager said maybe we should take ‘young’ off the resume the other day,” he says with a laugh. “Part of me was like ‘Noooo.'”
While Roman, who will perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera on Thursday, Nov. 17, is aware of how he is presented in the classical world, it’s not something he thinks much about, nor does being the “hot new face” put added pressure on him, he says.