Dr. Tina DiMeglio is a professional educator, conductor, and clarinetist. A native of Delaware County, she was Director of Bands at Ridley High School from 2011-2018. After spending the last several years teaching at the collegiate level, she is excited to return to the Philadelphia area to join the team at Pennsbury High School!

Dr. DiMeglio was most recently the Associate Director of Bands at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where she conducted the USF Symphonic Band. She was heavily involved in mentoring future music educators and taught courses in conducting and music education. She often works as a clinician and guest conductor for band programs and honor bands around the nation.

In the summer of 2023, Dr. DiMeglio conducted the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in the nation’s capital as a guest conductor and conducting workshop participant. 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 also 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, collaborating with composers and artists from historically marginalized communities and mentoring conductors of all genders. DiMeglio 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.

She served as the Music Director of the Tampa Brass Band from 2021-2024, and was recently named Music Director of the Lancaster British Brass Band in the spring of 2024.

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 holds a Master of Music Degree in Wind Conducting from West Chester University 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 and graduated Magna Cum Laude as a member of the academic honors program.

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.