Tina DiMeglio Vafiadis

Dr. Tina DiMeglio is a conductor and educator from Philadelphia. She has over a decade of experience teaching at the secondary level and works as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor for band programs and honor bands around the nation. She was recently the Associate Director of Bands at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where she conducted the USF Symphonic Band and taught courses in Music Education and Conducting.

In the summer of 2023, DiMeglio conducted the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in the nation’s capital. She 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 a recipient of the 2019 CBDNA Mike Moss Diversity Conducting Fellowship Study Grant. She actively works toward increased diversity and inclusion in the wind band medium, and has recently shared her expertise in conducting, rehearsal techniques, and concert programming at the 2023 Midwest Clinic and 2024 Florida and Pennsylvania Music Educators Association conferences.

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 and conducted the prestigious Frost Wind Ensemble. She completed a doctoral cognate in Musicology, focusing her research on David Maslanka’s compositional process as well as gender in the marching arts. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Wind Conducting from West Chester University and a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music where she studied clarinet with Paul Demers and graduated Magna Cum Laude as a member of the academic honors program.