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 performer and educator based in the New York City area, though she can be seen performing throughout the US. Recent performances include the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, Oregon Bach Festival, Charlotte , Omaha, and San Diego Symphonies. JoAnn is an Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

From 2015-25, 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.

JoAnn is the Second Trumpet of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Reading, PA, often serving as Guest Principal. Previous positions held include Acting Assistant Principal of the Phoenix Symphony, Second Trumpet of the Charleston Symphony and Third Utility of the Tucson Symphony. Other performance highlights include the Baltimore, New Jersey, and Richmond Symphonies, Naples Philharmonic, 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, coaching orchestra sectionals and chamber music. 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, 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 20 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 the Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Shenandoah Conservatory, Lawrence 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. 

JoAnn resides with her husband Edward Gattsek in a historical home from the 1860’s in Monmouth County, NJ.