Hana Beloglavec Wins the American Prize in Instrumental Performance

In October 2024, the American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts announced their national winners for Instrumental Performance. Hana Beloglavec, Assistant Professor of Trombone at Florida State University, received the American Prize in Instrumental Performance Award for the professional division, alongside co-winner Alexa Still, Professor of Flute at Oberlin Conservatory.

From The American Prize website:

Trombonist and pedagogue Hana Beloglavec has a dynamic career performing as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teaching at Louisiana State University, and she has just been named assistant professor of trombone at Florida State University for Fall 2023. In March 2020, Beloglavec performed the Lars-Erik Larsson Trombone Concertino as a guest artist of the American Trombone Workshop. In summer 2022, she was a guest artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference. Also deeply interested in orchestral music, Beloglavec currently holds an acting principal trombone position with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2019, she was the first woman brass player to play with the Armenian National Philharmonic and she has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Hana Beloglavec received her DMA from Northwestern University, her MM from Yale University, and her BM from at Western Michigan University. Hana Beloglavec is an S.E. Shires Artist.

In 2023, Beloglavec’s debut solo album Bayou Home was released on the Summit Record label.

Other brass winners in the professional division include:

• Second Place
  • Robert Fant () – Horn, Houston, Alabama
• Third Place
  • Christopher O’Hara (tie) – Trumpet, Bensenville, Illinois
• Honorable Mention
  • Scott Hagarty – Trumpet, Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Zachary Haas – Bass Trombone, Hamden CT

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings. Now in its fourteenth year, The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation. Information about the 2024-25 season of contests is now available and applications are being accepted, with extensions available by email request. (http://theamericanprize.org)

Click this link for a complete list of winners in the 2024 Instrumental Performance category.