Tina DiMeglio
Assistant Director of Bands, Assistant Professor of instruction
Email: tdimeglio@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-3975
Office: MUS 304
Tina DiMeglio is the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, USA. Dr. DiMeglio conducts the USF Concert Band and serves as Assistant Director of the Herd of Thunder Marching Band and Director of the Rumble Pep Band. She also teaches courses in conducting and music education.
Recently, Dr. DiMeglio won first prize at the Inaugural Frederick Fennell International Conducting Competition, held in Modica, Italy in November 2021. She was a Conducting Fellow in the 2019 Midwest Clinic Reynolds Conducting Institute, and was also a recipient of the 2019 CBDNA Mike Moss Diversity Conducting Fellowship Study Grant.
Tina DiMeglio earned a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree from the University of Miami, where she studied Instrumental Conducting with Dr. Robert Carnochan. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Wind Conducting from West Chester University, where she studied with Dr. Andrew Yozviak, and a bachelor’s degree in music education, clarinet concentration, from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, where she studied clarinet with Paul Demers of the Philadelphia Orchestra. While at Temple University, Dr. DiMeglio served as the President of CMENC Chapter 51 and was awarded the PMEA Award for Excellence in Service. She was a clarinetist with the Temple University Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, and Orchestra, and served three years as the drum major of the Temple University Diamond Marching Band. Dr. DiMeglio graduated Magna Cum Laude, was a member of the academic honors program, and received both the Diamond Key Band Award and the Emily and Arthur Crosby Award upon graduation.
A native of the Philadelphia area, Dr. DiMeglio served as the Band Director of Ridley High School, her alma mater, from 2011 - 2018. Dr. DiMeglio maintains a private lesson studio and performs professionally as a conductor, clinician, and clarinetist. When not teaching or performing, she enjoys spending time with her husband Jonathan and their many rescue animals.