Dr. Neale Bartee is the founder and conductor of the Delta Symphony Orchestra based in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He is also professor of music and conductor of the Arkansas State University Concert Orchestra.

With the Delta Symphony, Dr. Bartee has conducted concerts with internationally known guest artists Georgy Sandor, Ralph Votapek, and Eugene Fodor. He has also conducted numerous Nutcracker Ballet performances and American Musicals. With the Arkansas State University orchestra, Dr. Bartee has conducted several fully staged opera performances.

In 2004, Dr. Bartee conducted performances of American music in Sibiu and Rimnicu Valcea, Romania. As a guest conductor in the United States, Dr. Bartee has appeared in Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Dr. Bartee teaches conducting using Rudolf Laban’s Effort-Shape Analysis. He has presented workshops on conducting and his dissertation on expressive movement is used in several American colleges.

As a trombonist, Dr. Bartee performed at the International Trombone Festival in Helsinki, Finland in August 2003. He also performed in an American Trombone Choir with the Russian Imperial Balalaika Orchestra in St. Petersburg.