Instructor
Orchestra
Contact Information
Cogswell 213
Courses
- Symphony Orchestra
- Music and Literature Survey
- Ear Training
Education
- DMA, Catholic University of America
- University of South Carolina
- BM, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Biography
Faith Foster is a versatile musician with an equal passion for performance and education. She has shared this passion as music director for multiple community ensembles and award-winning youth orchestras, as well as guest conducting with professional symphonies and ballet companies. As a violist and violinist, Faith has performed internationally as a chamber musician, touring with an experimental ensemble in England, Scotland, and New Zealand, as well as regular orchestral engagements across the United States.
Her performances represent a wide variety of genres, including traditional symphonic programs, opera and musicals, and boundary-breaking new works by living composers. She holds a DMA in orchestral conducting, conferred by the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, where she studied with Simeone Tartaglione and Murry Sidlin. Notable conducting engagements include a concert with the European American Musical Alliance Chorale in the historic Schola Cantorum of Paris, a fully staged production of La Boheme with the CUA opera department, and two world premieres with the American Modern Ensemble in New York. In early 2027, she will be conducting the Port Townsend Symphony as a finalist for their music director search.
A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Faith grew up performing both classical and folk music with her equally talented siblings. Despite having recently relocated to the Seattle area with her partner and their two cats, she is excited to be back east for the fall to work with the dedicated musicians of the 亚色影库 Symphony Orchestra.