Dr. Brittany Trotter
Prize-winning flutist Dr. Brittany Trotter leads a versatile and fulfilling career as a solo and orchestral performer, chamber musician, and educator. Dr. Trotter has been awarded first prize in numerous national and regional competitions including the Music Teacher National Association Young Artist Competition in woodwinds in the states of West Virginia (2017, 2016), Wyoming (2015, 2014), and Mississippi (2014).
Dr. Trotter has performed and presented at regional and national flute conventions including the Southern Flute Festival, Kentucky Flute Fair, Florida Flute Association Convention, Society of Greater Philadelphia Flute Fair, Rochester Flute Fair, Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, and the National Flute Association Convention.
Recently, Trotter was named a winner of the National Flute Association's 2020 Graduate Research Competition and WVU's Mary Ferrer Award for her doctoral dissertation, "Examining Musical Hybridity and Cultural Influences in Valerie Coleman's Wish Sonatine and Fanmi Imèn".
Dr. Trotter serves on the faculty of Dickinson College and West Virginia Wesleyan College as Instructor of Flute. She also serves on the musicianship faculty at Duquesne University where she instructs a course in the history of hip hop. As primary and secondary music educator, Dr. Trotter maintains a vibrant private traditional and Suzuki flute studio in the greater Pittsburgh area and teaches beginner woodwinds at Waldorf School of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Trotter holds a D.M.A. and a certificate in University Teaching from West Virginia University. She also holds a M.M. from the University of Wyoming, and a B.M. and B.M.E. from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Trotter preferred pronouns are she/her.