Joseph Compello

About the Composer Joseph Compello discovered his love of music when, as a child, he saw the Centennial Celebration Parade in his hometown, Carbondale, Pennsylvania. After his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, he began studying euphonium with Robert Kennick of the Baltimore Symphony. By the time he was an 11th grader at Patterson Park High School, his band director, Clarence Wroblewski, recommended Compello for a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory …Read More