Dedication Piano Recital By Joe Jacovino At St Rose Church

The Music Ministry of St Rose Church will present a dedication piano recital by Music Director Joseph J. Jacovino, Jr, at 3 pm on Sunday, June 22.

The program will showcase the new Yamaha Disklavier grand piano that was purchased by the church last winter through memorial contributions by parishioners.

The program will begin with a formal dedication and blessing, followed by a solo recital performed by Mr Jacovino.

The program will be a collection of pieces by the great romantic masters. It will include Aufschwung (Soaring) by Robert Schumann; Liebestraumen No. III (Dream of Love) by Franz List; Intermesso Op. 118 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms; Reflets Dans L’Eau (Reflections on the Water) by Claude Debussy; Etude Op. 10 No. 12 (The Revolutionary Etude) by Frederic Chopin; Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66 by Frederic Chopin; Etude-Tableau in E-Flat Minor Op. 39 No. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninoff; “A Time for Love” by Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, and Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.

The program is open to the public and free of charge, although free-will offerings to the music program will be accepted.

Mr Jacovino 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 master’s degree in education. He has been the director of music for the past 24 years at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, where he directs two concert bands, jazz band, conducts the student orchestra for spring musicals, and teaches music theory.

Mr Jacovino is the organist and director of music at St Rose Church. He is an adjunct faculty member at Naugatuck Valley Community Technical College where he directs the NVCC Community Jazz Band. He is the accompanist for the Connecticut Master Chorale and the Waterbury Chorale, and is a member of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra. Mr Jacovino teaches piano privately and has done extensive accompanying throughout the state for various choral groups and Connecticut Music Educators Association (CMEA) festivals. 

Mr Jacovino has been an active soloist and accompanist throughout the Connecticut area. He has been a piano soloist with the Waterbury Symphony and the Naugatuck Valley College Orchestra. He has appeared on numerous occasions as organist and pianist in both classical and jazz styles.

Last year he accompanied the Danbury-based Connecticut Master Chorale when it performed at the White House. There Mr Jacovino played the 1938 Steinway grand piano, the same piano that former President Harry S Truman played for President John F. Kennedy in 1961.