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Brittany Lasch was appointed assistant professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2023.
A winner of the S&R Foundation Washington Award and Astral Artists National Auditions, Lasch has appeared as a soloist with ensembles ranging from the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” to the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass and for concerto performances with the Queens Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Bucks County Symphony, Bowling Green Philharmonia, Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia, and others across the country. With playing described as “masterful” (Syracuse Post-Standard), American Record Guide recently hailed her as an “excellent soloist” across a diverse range of repertoire.
Lasch has been a featured guest artist at numerous festivals, including the International Trombone Festival, International Women’s Brass Conference, and American Trombone Workshop. She was a winner of the National Collegiate Solo Competition hosted by the U.S. Army Band, the Eisenberg-Fried Brass Concerto Competition at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Zulalian Foundation Award in Boston. Her trombone quartet, Boston Based, won the 2017 International Trombone Association’s Quartet Competition. In 2018, she was awarded second place in The American Prize solo instrumentalist competition. A prizewinner in numerous other competitions, she received the coveted John Clark Award upon graduation from the Manhattan School of Music for outstanding accomplishment in brass performance.
For six seasons, Lasch was principal trombone of the Detroit Opera Orchestra at the Detroit Opera House. She has performed with orchestras nationwide, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Toledo Symphony Orchestra. She participated in the Verbier Festival Orchestra for two summers and has also appeared at the Spoleto USA Festival, Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, Castleton Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. An active presence in the global trombone community, she has performed at Argentina’s Trombonanza and Portugal’s Gravíssimo Festival as well as in Japan, Portugal, Korea, and Brazil.
As an advocate for new music, Lasch has commissioned and performed several new pieces for trombone, including acclaimed composer Reena Esmail’s major Sonata for Trombone and Piano. Lasch gave the premiere of the orchestrated version of Martin Kennedy's Theme and Variations for Trombone and Orchestra with the Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Philharmonia under the direction of Emily Brown. She also recorded the work with the BGSU Philharmonia, which was recently released on the Albany Records label. Other recent projects include collaborations with composers Inez McComas, Adam Har-zvi, and David Miller.
Her upcoming solo album, Dark Horse, features works by Samuel Adler, Tony Plog, Reena Esmail, Shawn Davern, and the album’s pianist, Thomas Weaver.
A native of Park Ridge, Illinois, Lasch earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, where she received the Brass Department Award. She also holds a Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music.
With a deep commitment to education, Lasch has previously served as faculty at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has also been a featured teacher and performer at summer festivals, including the Sewanee Music Festival and the DC Trombone Workshop, and she has presented master classes at universities across the country as well as internationally.