Hana Beloglavec joins faculty at Louisiana State University

Hana Beloglavec '13 MM has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Trombone at Louisiana State University. She previously held a position as a Visiting Instructor of Low Brass at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Also deeply interested in orchestral music, Beloglavec has performed as a substitute trombonist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductors Charles Dutoit, Sir Mark Elder, Ludovic Morlot, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, as well as the Chicago based early-music ensemble Music of the Baroque under Jane Glover and Nicholas Kraemer. She also has performed as a member of the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria.

Her most recent accomplishment includes winning the 2014 Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship and the 2012 International Women’s Brass Conference’s Division II Solo Competition. As a chamber musician, she has found success in her trombone quartet, the Lakeside Quartet, which competed in the finals of the 2014 International Trombone Quartet Competition. During her time at Yale University, The Handsome Dan’s Trombone Quartet won the 2013 Eastern Trombone Workshop’s Trombone Quartet Competition and performed a quartet recital at the workshop as well as the 2013 Yale Woolsey Concerto Competition.

Hana received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in June of 2016 from Northwestern University, where she studied with Professors Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Tim Higgins, Randall Hawes, and Christopher Davis. She completed her previous degrees at Yale School of Music (MM) and Western Michigan University (BM), where she studied with Professor Scott Hartman and Dr. Steve Wolfinbarger, respectively.