Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb, K. 417 will open the Mozart Requiem concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. Joshua Michal will appear as featured soloist with the Ohio State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marshall Haddock. Michal is currently the graduate teaching associate for the horn studio at The Ohio State University where he is pursuing a DMA in horn performance. Previously, he received his MM from Northwestern University and BM from Indiana University with additional studies at Bowling Green State University and the IES Institute in Vienna, Austria. His principal teachers include Ohio State horn professor Bruce Henniss, Elizabeth Freimuth, Gail Williams, Jeff Nelsen, Volker Altman, Michael Hoeltzel, Richard Seraphinoff and Michael Hatfield.
 
Michal can be heard on the Resound Label with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and on the Analekta Label with L’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne as solo horn for Symphony No. 4 by Bruckner, and Richard Strauss’ Don Juan.
 
As an active freelance musician, he performs regularly with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and holds the chair of 4th horn in the Springfield Symphony. He has also recently performed with the the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony (SC), the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra (CO), the Boston Brass and the Chicago Brass Ensemble and is a former member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

Tickets

$20 general admission; $10 ConcertCard holders, senior citizens, Alumni Association members, non-OSU students, and children.  FREE to all Ohio State students, faculty and staff (one ticket per BuckID presented in person).  Advance ticket sales at (614) 292-3535 or wexarts.org.