Tampa Brass Band
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Tampa Brass Band
 

Tampa Brass Band

Established in 2019, the Tampa Brass Band is the premier British Brass ensemble in the Tampa Bay region of Florida. Consisting of a mix of skilled brass and percussion professionals, music educators, and music enthusiasts from all over the Gulf Coast of Florida. TBB performances consist of exciting music from the Brass Band repertoire, as well as arrangements of orchestral and popular classics. The Tampa Brass Band presents an eclectic range of styles and high-level performances in venues throughout the Tampa Bay area, and regularly performs educational outreach events for Tampa Bay music programs. Among the many works the Tampa Brass Band has performed, some works include those by Peter Graham, Philip Sparke, Joel Collier, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Andrea Hobson.

The Tampa Brass Band made its first competitive appearance at the North American Brass Band Championships in Huntsville Alabama in 2022, and is preparing to do so again in 2023. In 2022, members and ensembles from the band won individual awards at the North American Brass Band Championships solo and ensemble competitions.

The Tampa Brass Band is an IRS 501 c (3) tax-exempt and a Florida non-profit corporation.
The organization’s mission is to promote the traditional British Brass Band style while simultaneously acting as an educational organization to enhance the lives and performance ability of brass and percussion students throughout Tampa Bay.

 
 

Dr. Tina DiMeglio - Music Director

Tina DiMeglio is the Associate Director of Bands at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Dr. DiMeglio conducts the USF Symphonic Band and teaches courses in conducting and music education. She has served as the Music Director of the Tampa Brass Band since 2021.

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. She 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.

 

Ensemble Personnel

Cornets

Soprano

Juan Tellado

Solo

Fred Green

S. Jones

Alvin Bernard

Ryan McCorkle

Repiano

Coral Christina

First

Sean McKnight

Second

Dave Peto

Horns

Flugelhorn

Jay Dedon

Eb Horns

Philip Shuler

Jason Rogers

John Watkins

Baritones

Hannah Caraker

Joe Bonasera

Trombones

Tenor Trombone

Cj Rivera

Maerosa Whiteside

Bass Trombone

Morgan Brandt

Euphoniums

Aaron Campbell

Rodney Jean

Basses

Eb Bass

Ingrith Tower

Angel De Armas

Bb Bass

Philip Beatty

Brett Williams

Percussion

Daniel Melendez

Jason Emory 

Vacant (2)

Composer in residence

 
 

Brendan Sweeney (he/him) is a florida-based composer of acoustic and electronic music. Often with a sense of levity, his music frequently employs quotation, collage, and pastiche to explore idiosyncrasies of music throughout human history and genre. His music has been performed across the United States as well as in Italy, France, Austria, Canada, and Brazil. His teachers include Tina Tallon, Scott Lee, James Paul Sain, Paul Richards, and Tyler Kline. He has also worked with Michael Daugherty, Reinhard Fuchs and Justin Dello Joio. He is currently a Ph.D Fellow at the University of Florida studying Composition with a cognate in Education. He has been a cornetist with the Tampa Brass Band since its inception.

Brendan’s website

 
 
 

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