ASU Fine Arts Department

Music Faculty

Jonathan Aceto

Part time instructor

 

Jonathan Aceto holds performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Arizona State University, where he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1998. He has studied violin with Eric Rosenblith, Ronald Copes, and Catherine Tait, and chamber music with members of the Juilliard and Fine Arts String Quartets. In 1999 Dr. Aceto was appointed to the Caroline Paul King Professorship of Strings at Mercer University. While there he conducted the Mercer/Macon Symphony Youth Orchestra and served as acting concertmaster of the Macon Symphony. In 1998 he performed in his second Wagner Ring cycle as a long-time member of the Arizona Opera company, and has spent summers performing in the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy and its American counterpart the Spoleto Festival in Charleston South Carolina. Presently, Dr. Aceto is Acting Second Violin with the Magellan String Quartet and principal second violin with the Augusta Symphony. Along with the other members of the string quartet, Dr. Aceto is an Associate Academic Professional at Georgia Southern University.