Hana Beloglavec

D.M.A. Trombone Performance
Northwestern University (2016)

M.M. Trombone Performance
Yale University (2013)

B.M. Trombone Performance
Western Michigan University (2011) 

Why did you choose to attend WMU? 

I chose to go to WMU to study with Dr. Wolfinbarger and learn from the rest of the faculty. I really felt that the WMU faculty were all very invested in my progress. Dr. Wolfinbarger always went the extra mile to be there for extra lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions. I also attended WMU because of all the performance opportunities, and I learned a lot from my time performing recitals each semester with the Russell Brown Scholarship Brass Quintet, as well as playing alongside talented colleagues and the faculty brass quintet for the annual Western Brass Quintet Christmas Concert. 

What do you consider to be your most important professional achievement to date?

I am immensely proud of my current appointment at Louisiana State University and am very excited to be working alongside the talented faculty and with my new students. I also feel that my many performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be ones that I will remember for the rest of my career.

What is your fondest memory of your time in the trombone studio (or music program) at WMU?

My fondest memory of my time at WMU was the trip to China with the Western Winds, an ensemble comprised of faculty and mainly graduate students. We spent about a week in Chengdu, and the trip was so wonderful both musically and as an overall experience. I remember we performed for a huge audience that seemed to roar with applause when we finished each selection. A couple of us also took a trip to learn Tai Chi from a master whose student we met at a park. Needless to say, it was a great experience! 

GENERAL INFORMATION

International award-winning trombonist Hana Beloglavec has competed successfully in several major competitions. Her most recent accomplishments include 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. She also was a member of The Handsome Dan’s Trombone Quartet, which won both the 2013 Yale Woolsey Concerto Competition and the Eastern Trombone Workshop’s Trombone Quartet Competition, in addition to performing a quartet recital at the workshop. She is also currently a member of the world-renowned Seraph Brass. 

Deeply interested in orchestral music, Dr. 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. 

Hana Beloglavec received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Northwestern University, where she studied with Professors Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Tim Higgins, Randall Hawes, and Christopher Davis. She completed her Master of Music degree at Yale University and her Bachelor of Music degree at Western Michigan University, where she studied with Professors Scott Hartman and Dr. Steve Wolfinbarger respectively. Dr. Hana Beloglavec currently is a professor of music at Louisiana State University, where she teaches trombone and chamber music.