SEASON FINALE -- "Stefan Returns"
Simeone Tartaglione - Conducting
MSO Assistant Conductor
April 2012

Cezary Szafranski, Photographer
Italian-born Simeone Tartaglione is a multi-talented conductor and pianist. His preparation at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome was in the European tradition, and included
conducting, composition, opera, and chamber music. He also studied piano performance at the Bellini Institute in Sicily. He has had extensive conducting experience in symphonic and
opera repertoire with orchestras from Italy, Spain, Russia, Romania, Mexico, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and the United States, winning numerous competitions and prizes along the way. In addition
to his degrees and honors, Tartaglione holds a Dottore degree in Italian Literature
and Musicology from the University of Palermo and is a published author.
After two years studying, teaching and conducting in Denver, Colorado, Tartaglione came to the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2007 for further work under the tutelage of
Maestro Gustav Meier, and received a Graduate Performance Diploma in 2011.
In addition to being Assistant Conductor of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, in November of 2011