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Joe DeMarco

Joe DeMarco is a musician, arts journalist and technologist. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Boston Ballet, Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and has shared the stage with Andrea Bocelli, Ann Hampton Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ben Folds, Burt Bacharach, Cecile Licad, Don Rickles, Idina Menzel, Joshua Bell, Linda Eder, The Moody Blues, Regis Philbin, Roberta Flack, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Yo Yo Ma, among others. His expertise spans genres, including orchestra, ballet, opera, theater, jazz, blues and pop music. Mr. DeMarco holds degrees in music from Boston University and the Juilliard School. He resides in Providence, RI and Miami Beach, FL.

Lifestyle

Posted on September 16, 2014September 17, 2014
Joe DeMarco
Lifestyle
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Home Improvement Gone Wrong, or How I Spent The Last 3 Weeks Of Summer

My house was built in 1940 and has had virtually no renovations done to it. It was a “handyman special” when I acquired it. I wasn’t a handyman at that time, but I figured like many of my friends I’d grow up to be one. Apparently I figured wrong. I started with the closet in […]

Events

Posted on September 9, 2014January 17, 2022
Joe DeMarco
Events, Music, Other
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Telling Fairy Tales in Providence

World premieres are a rarity, and are especially uncommon in smaller cities like Providence. Even more unusual is to have two world premieres by the same composer in the same small city within the same year. When I last spoke with composer Steven Jobe in May, it was days before the inaugural performance of his […]

Opera Providence – Opera Done Right

Let’s face it. Opera is a tough sell in America. To really appreciate it requires focus, which is severely lacking in a world of constant verbal and electronic chatter. Some of the finest works are sung in Italian or German. Operatic vocal style is considered by many to be an acquired taste – but then […]

Music

Something Old, Something New: A Choral Music Concert Not To Be Missed

Rhode Island based composer Steven L. Jobe has been very busy lately. His latest piece, “The Newman Cantata,” will have its world premiere this Sunday at the spring choral concert at Newman Congregational Church in Rumford. Geoffrey Greene, music minister at Newman Congregational Church, collaborated with Jobe on this project. The two have worked together […]