 Lisa Ormston Bontrager is director of the Penn State Horn Studio. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Japan. Bontrager is currently active performing, touring and recording with Millennium Brass, the Pennsylvania Quintet, and MirrorImage, a horn duo with colleague Michelle Stebleton. As soloist/clinician for Holton horns, Bontrager has been featured at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, New York Brass Conferences, the New England Brass Conference, and a number of international conferences of the International Horn Society. For six years she served as an elected member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society.
Distinctive because of her versatility, Bontrager has been recognized as one of the country's leading tenor horn players. She currently tours and records with both the Brass Band of Battle Creek and the New Columbian Brass Band. Performing on historic instruments, she has appeared in lectures and on video with Louis Stout's, "The Horn, from the Forest to the Concert Hall." She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Chamber and Ballet Orchestras, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras, the Harrisburg Symphony, and is presently principal hornist of the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra and Penn's Woods Festival Orchestra.
Bontrager holds performance degrees from the University of Michigan where she studied with Louis Stout. Appointed in 1985, she is currently Professor of Music at Penn State University where she teaches horn and directs the 18-member Horn Ensemble.
Bontrager's first solo recording, Hunter's Moon, was released on the Summit Records label in April 2002.
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