Joseph Macerollo

Joseph Nicholas Anthony Macerollo (born in Guelph, Ontario, 1 Oct. 1944) is a Canadian accordionist and music teacher. Joe Macerollo has performed often on CBC radio and TV. In public appearances with the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, the Chamber Players of Toronto, the Hart House Orchestra, the NACO, Nexus, the Orford String Quartet, and the Purcell String Quartet, as well as in solo recitals, he has performed, and frequently premiered free-bass accordion works by Milton Barnes, Luciano Berio, Walter Buczynski, Michael Colgrass, Samuel Dolin, George Fiala, James Hiscott, Lothar Klein, Hope Lee, Alexina Louie, Phil Nimmons, Barbara Pentland, R. Murray Schafer, Timothy Sullivan, Morris Surdin, and Gerhard Wuensch. He has performed with most major Canadian orchestras, at the Guelph Spring Festival, and at the Festival of the Sound. In 1981 he co-ordinated and performed in Soundstage Canada '81, a group of Canadian musicians who toured Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Rumania as part of the festival Muzicki Biennale Zagreb. In 1987 and 1988 he performed in Peterborough, Ont, in R. Murray Schafer's The Greatest Show on Earth, part of the Patria cycle. In 1988 he organized Lumina, a multimedia event exploring the confluence of music and light as experienced in the medieval cathedral.