Prize-winning flutist Dr. Brittany Trotter leads a diverse career as an educator, soloist, and collaborator. She is the Assistant Professor in Flute and Woodwind Program Director at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in Stockton, CA.

Trotter has been awarded first prize in numerous national and regional competitions including the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition in woodwinds in the states of West Virginia (2017, 2016), Wyoming (2015, 2014), and Mississippi (2009). She has also competed as a semi-finalist in the 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Since moving to California in 2021, Trotter has performed as a substitute with most of the central valley regional orchestras such as the Stockton Symphony Orchestra, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, and Modesto Symphony Orchestra. Equally versed in post-classical contemporary and experimental music as well as electro-acoustic music and interdisciplinary works, she has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary players and premiered new works for the flute nationally.

Trotter regularly performs, teaches, and serves as a guest lecturer throughout the United States. Recent appearances include Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Slippery Rock University, and the University of Memphis to name a few. Trotter has performed and presented at numerous regional and national flute conventions such as the Kentucky Flute Fair, Florida Flute Association Convention, Rochester Flute Fair, Mid-Atlantic flute convention, and the National Flute Association Convention where she was a featured soloist in the 2020 virtual summer series celebration concert series.

Recipient of the NFA’s 2020 Graduate Research Competition for her dissertation entitled, Examining Music Hybridity and Cultural Influences in Valerie Coleman’s Wish Sonatine and Fanmi Imen, Trotter continues to actively study the merging of western classical music, diverse culture, and modern popular music. She has presented a lecture recital entitled “Flute & Hip Hop” at several music conferences.