Virtuosi

As a junior at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Owen is starting to take more of a leadership role in the music department. That means that he's now first cello in the orchestra and string ensemble, and is a member of Virtuosi - Duke's String Quartet (which currently has five members due to a recently healed broken arm). Virtuosi performs more often then the other ensembles, and had its first outing at Georgetown's Art All Night event, where they performed the Brandenburg Concerto #3 (above), Minuetto by Bocherini, Rondo by Mouret, Country Club by Scott Joplin, and Pachelbel's Canon (though you may not be able to hear that one since, despite being 300 years old and in the public domain, Facebook has decided that there are copyright issues with sharing it). It's was pretty amazing to see Owen and his friends performing so well only a month into the school year, and makes us excited to see what the rest of the year will bring.