FREE Courtroom Concert: Patricia Ryan, cello; Joe Trucano, piano

Joseph Trucano is a Minneapolis based organist, pianist, and cellist. He serves as the Organist & Ensemble Director at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis, where he is active as a performer, director, and composer. Prior to this, he was the Associate Producer of American Public Media’s nationally broadcast Pipedreams program and curator of the statewide Pop Up Classical series.

Joe remains a busy collaborator throughout the Twin Cities, with recent engagements including the Minnesota Chorale, Schubert Club, 10th Wave Chamber Ensemble, National Lutheran Choir, Woven Voices, VocalPoint Chorus, Justice Choir, Minnesota Public Radio, Twin Cities American Guild of Organists, and collaborations with members of the Minnesota Orchestra.

Joe holds a M.M. in Organ Performance & Literature from the Eastman School of Music, where he received the James B. Cochran Award for excellence in performance, and a B.M. in Organ Performance from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Patricia Ryan is a Billboard chart-topping performing cellist based in Minneapolis, MN and has performed with some of the world’s leading musicians including pianist Emanuel Ax, the Pacifica String Quartet, violinist Geoff Nuttall, violist John Largess, cellist Norman Fischer, Natasha Brofsky and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and jazz saxophonist Miguel Zenón. She is a core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic Ensemble, Minnesota’s 10th Wave Chamber Collective and is a founding member of Trio Zenia. She is a Teaching Artist at Walker|West Music Academy, serving the Rondo Community in St. Paul, MN.

Mrs. Ryan has completed a second Masters of Music at Rice University Shepherd School of Music on full tuition scholarship under the tutelage of Norman Fischer, an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music and a Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and a Bachelors of Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music with Tchaikovsky Competition laureate Nathaniel Rosen and Alexander Suleiman on full scholarship. www.patriciaryancello.com