May 30, 2018

Simeone Tartaglione, clinical assistant professor, instrumental music and conducting, and Alessandra Cuffaro, instructor, violin, were profiled in a Delaware Today story about the married couple and how music brought them together. Cuffaro was profiled in The Town Courier (Gaithersburg)


Musicians Simeone Tartaglione and Alessandra Cuffaro have performed together countless times, yet no concert may be as memorable as their first encounter as teenagers.

Tartaglione, then a pianist, and Cuffaro, a violinist, grew up in similar circles of Agrigento, in Sicily, but they didn’t meet until a mutual friend hired them to perform at a wedding.

“When she started to play, I was shocked with how much power she had—how expressive and intense,” says Tartaglione, music director and conductor for the Newark Symphony and music director for the Delaware Youth Symphony Orchestra at The Music School of Delaware. “It was breathtaking.”

Cuffaro felt a mutual admiration for Tartaglione, and the spark stayed with them for years. They married in 2005. ...

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