Conductor, multi-keyboard artist, and tenor DAN FOSTER accompanies students and teaches keyboard harmony classes at Skidmore College. As a tenor soloist and continuo player, he appears frequently with prestigious baroque groups including Cambridge Concentus, Crescendo Berkshires, and Music in Somerset Hills in collaboration with The Sebastians baroque orchestra.
A lifelong advocate for contemporary composers, Mr. Foster conducted the premieres of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Timothy Luby; Magnificat and Te Deum by Larry G. Nuckolls; and The Joseph Triptych and Canticles for Advent: The Season of the Now by Thomas F. Savoy, who afterward wrote: “... [he] brings his considerable musicianship and artistic sensitivity to bear on satisfying the vision of the composer. This is one of his greatest gifts, sublime in nature, but of immense artistic integrity.”
Mr. Foster engages in critical research to revive forgotten masterpieces of early music. Aœde Consort’s 2009 revival of Grand Motet “Exaudiat te Dominus,” by Jean-Baptiste Lully, was the first performance in the Americas and produced the first publication of modern performing scores for this great work. This and his other authoritative editions are published by Schirmer Cengage at Yale University. Closer to home, Mr. Foster is founder and director of Saint John’s Collegium, a teaching artist with Albany Pro Music, and the choir director at Congregation Berith Sholom.
A lifelong advocate for contemporary composers, Mr. Foster conducted the premieres of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Timothy Luby; Magnificat and Te Deum by Larry G. Nuckolls; and The Joseph Triptych and Canticles for Advent: The Season of the Now by Thomas F. Savoy, who afterward wrote: “... [he] brings his considerable musicianship and artistic sensitivity to bear on satisfying the vision of the composer. This is one of his greatest gifts, sublime in nature, but of immense artistic integrity.”
Mr. Foster engages in critical research to revive forgotten masterpieces of early music. Aœde Consort’s 2009 revival of Grand Motet “Exaudiat te Dominus,” by Jean-Baptiste Lully, was the first performance in the Americas and produced the first publication of modern performing scores for this great work. This and his other authoritative editions are published by Schirmer Cengage at Yale University. Closer to home, Mr. Foster is founder and director of Saint John’s Collegium, a teaching artist with Albany Pro Music, and the choir director at Congregation Berith Sholom.
New England Chamber OrchestraDiscovering rarely performed chamber orchestral works and introducing them in their historical context.
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