JoAnn Lamolino is a Performing Artist and Educator in trumpet and yoga/mindfulness practices. Passionate about connecting cultures through music and mindfulness, JoAnn’s performances and presentations have seen her in such varied locations as lava fields on the Big Island of Hawaii, Carnegie Hall, the Greek Amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, on Broadway in New York City and many more. 

Currently, JoAnn is a musician based in the New York City area. She is in demand performing with orchestras throughout the US. Recent performances include the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony and Acting Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Phoenix Symphony during the winter and spring of 2025.

For the past decade, JoAnn served as the Associate Principal/Second Trumpet of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and three of the those years as Lecturer in Trumpet at the University of Hawaii. In addition, she was a member of the Honolulu Brass Quintet, presenting education programs and performing in recitals throughout the Hawaiian Island chain.

While on the mainland, JoAnn is the Second Trumpet of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Reading, PA, often serving as Guest Principal. Other performance highlights include the Tucson, Charleston, Baltimore, and Omaha Symphonies, New York City Opera and as Guest Principal Trumpet with the American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center. In concert with Rene Fleming, Adele, Josh Groban, The Walkmen and on numerous Broadway shows. An Advocate for diversity in classical music, JoAnn is on the trumpet faculty of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA National Festival. As a Solo Artist, JoAnn has appeared internationally in both Europe and Asia. Domestically with the Charleston Symphony, Monmouth Symphony, Westchester Symphonic Winds, Trinity Concerts at One Wall Street, the Patriot Brass, RAI Italian National Television and was a 1st Prize winner in the Trumpet Competition at the IWBC, International Women’s Brass Conference. 

JoAnn has been a Kundalini Yoga practitioner for 19 years and received her Level 1 Teacher Certification from the Kundalini Yoga Research Institute in 2021. In order to integrate her passions of music and yoga/meditation, JoAnn founded the Mind.Music.Sanctuary, a yoga/meditation base for musicians to improve performance and practice through a mindfulness lens. Since inception, there have been masterclasses, residencies and online workshops presented at Oberlin Conservatory, Hartt School of Music, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Whitewater, University of Florida, Rutgers Mason Gross, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, DePaul, Baltimore School of the Arts, Northern Arizona University, University of Arizona, University of Hawaii, Slippery Rock University, Purdue, Northern Illinois University and New York University; in addition to weekly yoga classes offered online. Since being introduced to this practice by Dr. Don Greene, JoAnn is able to balance out her busy career as a 21st Century musician flying around the country as freely as she does.

JoAnn holds a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University. Principal Teachers include members of the NY Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 

When not on the road or on a tropical island, JoAnn can be found at home with her husband Edward Gattsek. They reside in Keyport, NJ and care for a Keyport Century Home, a Victorian cottage dating from 1867.