Frank Gulino composer – trombone concerto, Brittany Lasch, trombonist, Thomas Weaver, pianist

This concert will feature music by composer Frank Gulino and composer-pianist Thomas Weaver,
joined by trombonist Dr. Brittany Lasch of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
Gulino, a returning artist whose violin sonata Garden States received its premiere at Van Vleck last March, will present several works for trombone and piano, including his Trombone Sonata No. 1 (“The Journey”), first premiered in 2019 by Philadelphia Orchestra co-principal trombonist Matt Vaughn. He will collaborate with Weaver at the piano and with Lasch as soloist.

The program will also include the New Jersey premieres of Gulino’s Southeastern
Rhapsody and Weaver’s Midnight Embers, along with solo piano works by each
composer.

Frank Gulino is among the most in-demand writers of chamber music and recital literature for brass instruments. His works have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by some of the world’s foremost brass musicians and orchestras. His work, The Journey, was premiered by the US Army Band at the 2025 Capital Fourth of July celebration. His compositions have been performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and in other prestigious orchestras across the US as well as in South America and Europe. As a trombonist, Frank has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Music Center at Strathmore, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), and the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Registration link coming in early December