The Newark Symphony Orchestra

After winning an audition at the University of Denver he moved there in 2005.

At the same university he became Adjunct Professor of Conducting while earning an Artist Diploma with Maestro Lawrence Golan. Over the nextfew years he worked as a guest conductor, vocal coach, pianist and harpsichord player with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's Education and Outreach Programs, Central City Opera, Marilyn Horne Foundation, Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, Augustana Musica Sacra Orchestra, and Broadway Music School. He also served as cover conductor for the Colorado Symphony on a number of occasions.

Invited by Maestro Gustav Meier in 2006, Tartaglione moved to Baltimore where he continued conducting studies at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University earning a Graduate Performing Diploma in 2009 with a conducting assistantship. From 2008 to 2010 he served as Adjunct Faculty for the Peabody Opera Department, coaching and conducting several performances, and recently served as Music Director for a production of Hansel and Gretel in 2016 and as guest conductor for the Peabody Symphony in 2024. In 2009 and 2010, he served as the Music Director of the Be Orchestra, a volunteer group of Peabody and other Baltimore area students and recent graduates that served populations such as the homeless and prisoners. Still in Baltimore he served as conductor of the Chesapeake Chamber Opera conducting several staged productions. Tartaglione also collaborated with Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Peabody Opera, and Hopkins Chorus and on occasions he served as cover and back stage conductor for the Baltimore Opera and the Baltimore Symphony. He made his debut with Carmina Burana at a sold out Kennedy Center in Washington DC and at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Simeone also conducted, live on CNN, orchestra and chorus for Pope Francis’ last visit in Washington. In November 2019, he conducted Beethoven's 9th Symphony in honor of the 30th Anniversary of The Fall of the Berlin Wall, in the presence of the President of Germany and top United States government officials.

Among his most recent accomplishments are the four concerts he conducted in Cape Town during the 2024 music festival at Stellenbosch University, and the invitation to teach conducting for five weeks at the Peabody Conservatory in 2025 subbing for Maestra Marin Alsop and Maestro Joseph Young.

Tartaglione has recorded several CDs and DVDs as conductor and pianist in duo with his wife, well known violinist Alessandra Cuffaro, the first Italian woman who performed all the 24 Paganini's Capricci in one concert. He and Ms. Cuffaro live in Montgomery County with their two young daughters.