Accompaniment

Joe began studying piano at the age of 6 with Kathy Davis. He studied jazz piano with Mary Giacobbe for five years beginning in seventh grade.

Joe began accompanying at his local church in high school and soon expanded to accompanying instrumentalists, vocalists, choruses, and several musical productions.

Selected Repertoire:

Instrumental

Flute

  • Bolling, Claude - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
  • Chaminade, Cécile - Concertino
  • Copland, Aaron - Duo
  • Donizetti, G. - Sonate in C Major
  • Doppler, Franz - Concerto in e minor for Two Flutes
  • Gaubert, Philippe - Madrigal
  • Grady, Jennifer - Soaring
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph/Ralph R. Guenther - Minuetto in C
  • Hindemith, Paul - Sonata (I)
  • Marcello, B. - Sonata in F Major
  • Mozart, W.A. - Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313
  • Telemann, G.F. - Moderato in e minor; Trio Sonata in C Major

Oboe

  • Corelli, Arcangelo/J. Barbirolli - Concerto for Oboe and Strings (I, II, V)
  • Handel, G.F. - Sonata No. 1, HWV 366 (I, II)
  • Morris, Alyssa - Four Personalities (I)
  • Saint-Saëns, Camille - Sonate

Clarinet

Bassoon

Saxophone

  • Mozart, W.A./Larry Teal - Rondo in D
  • Reed, Alfred - Ballade
  • Schmidt, Jon - To the Summit
  • Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Fantasia

Trumpet

  • Albinoni, Tomaso - Concerto in C Major, T.Mi 3 (I)
  • Clark, Joe - Facets: Sonata No. 1 for Trumpet and Piano
  • Clarke, Herbert L. - The Debutante
  • Ewazen, Eric - A Song from the Heart
  • Haydn, Joseph - Concerto in Eb
  • Hovhaness, Alan - Prayer of St. Gregory (flugelhorn)
  • Nestico, Sammy - Portrait of a Trumpet
  • Persichetti, Vincent - The Hollow Men
  • Plog, Anthony - Animal Ditties II
  • Reed, Alfred - Ode for Trumpet
  • Robbins, G. - Mont St. Michel (flugelhorn)

Horn

Tuba

  • Nelhybel, Vaclav - Suite

Vocal

Solo Voice

Choral

  • Beck, Andy - Seasons
  • Debussy, Claude - Fantoches
  • Enders, Harvey - Russian Picnic
  • Gjeilo, Ola - Tundra
  • Hayes, Mark, arr. - Sing Joy!
  • Lauridsen, Morten - Dirait-On
  • Mozart, W.A. - Regina Coeli, K. 276
  • Schwartz, Stephen - For Good (from "Wicked")
  • Stroope, Randall Z. - Omnia Sol (Let Your Heart Be Staid); Song to the Moon (La Luna)

Musicals

  • 42nd Street - Played Oscar, the Stage Pianist (2009)
  • Fiddler on the Roof - Pit keyboard, musical revue (2010)
  • Grease - Pit keyboard & director, musical revue (2011)
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Pit keyboards & director(2012)
  • CATS/Phantom of the Opera - Pit keyboard, musical revue (2013)
  • Shrek - Pit keyboard & director (2022)
  • Once Upon A Mattress - Pit keyboard & director (2023)
  • Little Shop of Horrors - Pit keyboard & director (2024)