Dr. Jason Hausback
Dr. Jason M. Hausback serves as the Associate Professor of Trombone at Missouri State University. In addition to maintaining the trombone studio, he directs the Jazz Studies Ensemble II. Prior to his arrival at MSU, Hausback was active as a teacher and a performer in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, teaching low brass at Eastfield College (Mesquite, TX), and Brookhaven College (Farmer’s Branch, TX). While at North Texas he was both a classical and jazz Teaching Fellow and directed the U-Tubes, who won the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition. He also issued their first CD entitled “The U-Tubes” in the spring of 2011. Additionally, Hausback was a member of the internationally-acclaimed One O’Clock Lab Band and was on the recording “Lab 2009,” which was nominated for two Grammy awards.
In 2008, Hausback was the winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop National Classical Bass Trombone Solo Competition, as well as the ITA Kai Winding Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition. His trombone quartet “Bell Street Four” also won the 2008 ITA Quartet competition. Additionally, he enjoys travel and has had the opportunity to perform across the United States, as well as in Canada, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, England, Finland, and Thailand.
Hausback is an active freelance artist throughout the mid-south of the United States and performs regularly with The Lone Star Wind Orchestra (TX), Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (AR), The Ozark Lyric Opera (MO), Ionic Brass Quintet (OK), and Fountain City Brass Band (KS). He has filled in with several notable orchestras including the East Texas Symphony, The Tulsa Symphony, The Kansas City Symphony, and the Dallas Opera Orchestra. He has performed solo and quartet recitals at universities and conferences throughout the U.S. as well as in Colombia and Spain. He performed in the Southeast Trombone Symposium Professors Choir and in featured ensembles at several different International Trombone Festivals.
Hausback also has an interest in early music and enjoys this diverse and challenging repertoire. He plays the tenor and bass sackbuts and performed at the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival and at the 2008 Misiones de Chiquitos Baroque Music Festival in Bolivia. His DMA dissertation was on the sonatas of Dario Castello, a seventeenth-century Italian composer who wrote extensively for the sackbut.
In addition, Hausback has served on the staff of many prominent high school marching bands in Texas, including Marcus HS (2007-2015), Texas 5A/6A State champions five consecutive times. He has worked with several drum and bugle corps, including Capital Sound, the Madison Scouts, Spirit of Atlanta, the Boston Crusaders, and Phantom Regiment. Hausback has also been active as an adjudicator for marching band, solo/ensemble and jazz competitions. Most notably, he had the honor of judging several International Trombone Association competitions, as well as for American Trombone Workshop, Southeast Trombone Symposium, and the Big 12 Trombone Conference. Hausback is President of the Missouri Music Teachers Association (2022-24) and formerly served as Vice President, as well as State Chair for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) from 2015-2022. He is also the faculty advisor for the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Iota Rho Chapter.
Students of Hausback have placed or won numerous competitions, including MMTA (Winners), MTNA (National Alternate), The North Texas Low Brass Camp Collegiate Competition (Winner), Big 12 Trombone Conference (Finalists), and the American Trombone Workshop (Finalists). Recent graduates of Missouri State University have gone on to assistantships at the University of Central Arkansas, The University of North Texas, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University. The Missouri State University Trombone Ensemble was founded by Hausback in 2015 and has had the honor of performing at the Midwest Trombone and Euphonium Conference (Charleston, IL), the St. Louis Low Brass Collective Gala Concert (St. Louis, MO), the Missouri Music Teachers Association Conference (Osage Beach, MO), Tulsa Low Brass Day (Tulsa, OK), the Big 12 Trombone Conference (Lubbock, TX), the American Trombone Workshop (Ft. Myer, VA), and the International Trombone Festival (Conway, AR).
Hausback holds the BM in Trombone Performance degree from the University of Wisconsin: Madison, and the MM and DMA degrees in Trombone Performance from the University of North Texas. His primary teachers include Rose Lewis, Dr. William Richardson, Dr. Vern Kagarice, Jan Kagarice, and Tony Baker. Hausback is a S.E. Shires Performing Artist.