Lisa Albrecht

Lisa Albrecht joined the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009 and also serves as and Principal Trombonist of Opera Saratoga.  She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where she received the Remington Scholarship and Performer’s Certificate. Albrecht also has held positions with the Minnesota Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, and Honolulu Symphony. For several years she served as Assistant Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic. She has performed with several orchestras around the world, among them the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Metropolitan Opera, Czech National Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.  Her Early Music credits include performances with Rebel Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, Spiritus Collective, and Early Music New York.  She has also enjoyed musical collaborations with the modern dance companies of Martha Graham, Mark Morris, and Eric Hawkins as well as with the American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet. Her opera credits include Glimmerglass, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera. Albrecht has also toured with several chamber groups, including the Summit Brass and Burning River Brass.  In 2012 she founded the Hohenfels Trombone Quartet.  During HTQ’s 2014 tour to Germany and Austria, she served as a cultural ambassador to Rochester’s International Sister City of Würzburg, Germany, featuring collaborations with organists and composers.

Her solo album, Sound & Resound (with organist Amanda R. Mole and Hohenfels Trombone Quartet) is now available from Apple Music, Amazon, cdbaby, Spotify, and via her website, www.albrechttrombone.com

A New York-based freelancer for 15 years, Albrecht performed in over 20 Broadway productions, among them: Candide, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, The Lion King, The Music Man, Hairspray, Urinetown, Nine, Fiddler on the Roof, The Three Penny Opera, A Chorus Line, and Spamalot.  Other commercial credits include performances with such legendary performers as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, Cassandra Wilson, The Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Elvis Costello, Barry Manilow, Jack Lemmon, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Ute Lemper, Chita Rivera, Audra MacDonald, and Eartha Kitt.

As a recitalist and clinician, Albrecht has been a soloist with the Jupiter Symphony Players, the International Trombone Festival, Lieksa Brass Week (Finland), Eastern Trombone Workshop, New York Brass Conference, and the Eastman Summer Trombone Institute.  She has served on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and now maintains a private studio.  She is also the founder of Oktoberbones, whose spirited Volksmusik performances can be heard at an Oktoberfest venue near you!