Collaborative Musicians’ Project

Meet our newest Youth Chamber Music Program coach, Faith Foster.

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. Her performances represent a wide variety of genres, from staples such as string quartets by Beethoven and Shostakovic to premieres by living composers with elements such as electronics. She holds a DMA in orchestral conducting, conferred by the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, where she studied with Murry Sidlin and Simeone Tartaglione. Notable conducting engagements include a concert with the European American Musical Alliance Chorale, a fully staged production of La Boheme with the CUA opera department. and two world premieres with the American Modern Ensemble in New York.