The Waterbury Chorale brings outstanding choral music to the Greater Waterbury area, while providing an opportunity for amateur and semi-professional singers to enjoy the performance of great musical literature.

The Waterbury Chorale was established in 1967 to provide an opportunity for singers from the Greater Waterbury area of Connecticut to enjoy and perform outstanding musical literature.

Current members of the Chorale reside in many Connecticut communities, including Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Cheshire, Farmington, Goshen, Hamden, Litchfield, Meriden, Middlebury, Middletown, Morris, Naugatuck, New Milford, Newtown, Oakville, Oxford, Prospect, Redding, Southbury, Terryville, Thomaston, Torrington, Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott, and Woodbury.

Joseph Jacovino Jr., Music Director

This is Maestro Joseph J. Jacovino’s 20th season as Director of the Waterbury Chorale.

He 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 Music Education. He retired in 2014 after 35 years as the Director of Music at Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, where he taught music theory, directed the concert band, jazz band, piano class, guitar and string ensembles, handbell choir, and the orchestras for spring musicals.

He has been the organist, cantor and choir director at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, for the past 20 years and in the latter capacity led a fifty-voice choir on a musical pilgrimage to Italy in July 2005. The choir itinerary included one concert each in Rome and Florence, performance of a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

Mr. Jacovino is currently the accompanist for the Connecticut Master Chorale and the director of the Heritage Village Singers. He recently became a member of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra. He has performed extensively as an accompanist throughout Connecticut for other choral groups as well and for CMEA festivals.

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 appeared on numerous occasions as organist and pianist in both classical and jazz styles and has been an active soloist throughout Connecticut, including piano soloist with the Waterbury Symphony orchestra, New Britain Symphony, Naugatuck Valley Community College Orchestra, St. Rose Festival Orchestra, and Connecticut Master Chorale Orchestra. Joe lives in Middlebury with his wife Roberta, and their two dogs. Their son Jay is a professional social worker, and daughter Sara is a Broadway Musician and composer in NYC.

Susan Anthony-Klein, Accompanist

Susan Anthony-Klein is our rehearsal and performance accompanist and she is known throughout the state for her accompanist abilities.

Since 1989, she has been the Music/Choir Director at Salem Convenant Church in Washington, CT.  She was on the faculty at Western CT State University where she taught piano, accompanied Opera Ensemble, coached and accompanied voice students and accompanied instrumentalists.

Susan has accompanied many choral groups including: Newtown Choral Society, Naugatuck Community Chorus, Ridgefield Chorale, Danbury Chorus, and the Heritage Village Singers.  She accompanied the St. Cecelia Chorus, in New York, under the direction of David Randolph which included seven performances at Carnegie Hall.  She has toured internationally with The DeCormier Singers and The Norman Luboff Chorus.  She has also accompanied Intensive Choral Weekends in Saugerties and Mohonk Mountain, NY.  She has performed as part of The Leroy Anderson Music series in his home in Woodbury, CT.  She also works with vocal and instrumental soloists in the New York and Connecticut area in preparation and performance of recitals.

Susan has her Bachelor of Music Performance, Clarinet, from the University of Connecticut and her Master of Music Performance from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.  She resides in New Preston with her two dogs Clara and Lucy and she has twin sons, Maxwell and Aaron. We are honored and thrilled to have her as our accompanist.

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