Hana Beloglavec

Hana Beloglavec

Biography

Trombonist and pedagogue Hana Beloglavec has a dynamic career performing as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teaching at Florida State University. Beloglavec has been a guest artist soloist at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference and the 2020 American Trombone Workshop. In February 2023, her debut solo album Bayou Home was released by Summit Records.

Beloglavec was a core member of Seraph Brass from 2017-2020 and with the group performed and taught across the United States and the world. With Seraph, she was a guest artist at the 2019 Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea, the 2017 and 2018 Lieksa Brass Week in Finland, and the 2019 Artosphere Music Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Also deeply interested in orchestral music, Beloglavec currently performs as the principal trombonist of the Tallahassee Symphony and acting principal trombonist with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. In summer of 2019 she performed as a substitute for the Armenian National Philharmonic’s production of Verdi’s Otello. She has also 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. Beloglavec also 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, Timothy 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 Professor Scott Hartman and Dr. Steve Wolfinbarger, respectively. In 2019 she was awarded the Early Career Award from Western Michigan University’s College of Fine Arts. Hana Beloglavec is currently the assistant professor of music at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Prior to teaching at FSU, she taught at Louisiana State University and Midwestern State University.

Hana Beloglavec is a Shires Artist and an Ultimate Brass Artist.