Simeone Tartaglione, Music Director & Symphony Series Director

Simeone Tartaglione is a versatile conductor whose passion for music in many forms keeps him busy.  His preparation was in the European tradition, covering conducting, composition, opera and chamber music in Rome at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and piano performance at the V. Bellini Institute. In addition to his various degrees and honors, he is Doctor in Philology (Italian Literature and Musicology), Magna cum Laude.  Maestro Tartaglione has had extensive conducting experience in symphonic and operatic repertoires with orchestras from Italy, Spain, the United States, Russia, Romania, Mexico, Ukraine and Bulgaria.  He has won numerous competitions and prizes along the way (Allied Arts, Leon Guide, Athanor, Le Arti, Telamone, Diamante della Musica, Sykele’, Rapisarda).  In Rome he worked as the Artistic Director of the Theatre Fusillo and the MUSA Cultural Association for five years. After winning an audition at the University of Denver as Assistant Conductor he moved to Denver in 2005. At the same University he became Adjunct Professor of Conducting.  He worked as guest conductor, vocal coach, pianist and harpsichord player with Central City Opera, Marilyn Horne Foundation, Colorado Symphony Orchestra Education and Outreach Programs, DYAO, CYSO, Augustana Musica Sacra Orchestra, Broadway Music School.  He has served as cover conductor and assistant for the London Symphony Chorus (Denver tour), Colorado Symphony, Baltimore Opera, Baltimore Symphony, Peabody Symphony, Peabody Opera, MidAtlantic Symphony, and Hopkins Chorus.  Invited by Maestro Gustav Meier, Maestro Tartaglione refined his craft at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with a conducting assistantship. Since 2008 he serves as Adjunct Faculty for the Peabody Opera Department.  He serves as the Music Director of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, the Music Director of the BE Orchestra in Baltimore, MD, and is a conductor and on the board of directors of the Chesapeake Concert Opera in Baltimore. In Italy he is the  Artistic Director of the Symphonia Association since 2004.

Nicole Aldrich, Chamber Series Director

Chamber Series director Nicole Aldrich is well known to area audiences for her work in a variety of musical fields.  She is a doctoral fellow in conducting at the University of Maryland and a former member of the choral faculty at the University of Delaware.  Her connection with the Newark Symphony dates back to 1998, her first year as a member of the Newark Ecumenical Chorus (now Symphony Chorus).  Since then she has served as orchestral pianist, soprano soloist with the chamber orchestra, member of chamber ensembles, director of the Newark Symphony Chorus, and guest conductor.  Ms. Aldrich is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the region.  Across the diversity of her pursuits, she most cherishes the dual roles of communicator and teacher.