Joseph Jacovino, Jr.
Accompanist
Joseph J. Jacovino, Jr. graduated from the Hartt College of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and from the Manhattan School of Music with a Masters Degree in Music Education. He has been the Director of Music for the past thirty years at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, where he directs the concert band, jazz band, guitar ensemble, handbell choir, student orchestra for spring musicals, piano keyboard class, and teaches music theory.
Since 2000, Mr. Jacovino has been the organist/cantor/choir director at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, where he has conducted numerous concerts involving the St. Rose Festival Chorus and Orchestra. In the summer of 2005, the choir performed concerts in Rome and Florence, and sang masses at St. Peter's Basilica, and St. Francis Basilica in Assisi as part of a musical tour. He is the staff pianist with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, and an adjunct faculty member at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, where he directs the NVCC Jazz Band.
In addition to his ten seasons as accompanist with the Connecticut Master Chorale, this is also his fourth season as the Music Director of the Waterbury Chorale, which is currently celebrating its 42nd season. As a composer, Mr. Jacovino has written several sacred choral pieces and masses, including Christmas at the Palace (a tribute to the Waterbury Palace Theater), Enshrined in the Grace of God, dedicated to Waterbury's Shrine of St. Anne, and Something Beautiful for God, based upon a prayer by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Mr. Jacovino has also done extensive accompanying throughout the state for various choral groups and CT Music Education Festivals. He has been an active piano soloist, having appeared with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Naugatuck Valley Community College Orchestra, the Connecticut Master Chorale Orchestra, and most recently the St. Rose Festival Chorus Orchestra. He has appeared on numerous occasions as organist and pianist in both classical and jazz styles. Joe currently lives in Middlebury with his wife Roberta, and two children Sara and Jay.