Founding
Artistic Director, Donald Travis Foster is one of Southern
California’s most in-demand clarinetists, serving
as Principal Clarinet of both the Pasadena and Santa
Barbara Symphonies and Assistant Principal Clarinet of
the New West Symphony. He is a frequent substitute musician
with the San Diego Symphony and the Los Angeles Opera
Orchestra and is active in the motion picture and television
studios, performing on numerous soundtracks for feature
films and television commercials including The Chronicles
of Narnia, King Kong, The Number 23, Spiderman 3, Pirates
of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End, and Blades
of Glory.
Don graduated from the University of Southern California,
receiving his Master of Music degree in 1996 while in the
studios of Yehuda Gilad and Michele Zukovsky.
He
has received Fellowships from both the Tanglewood and
Aspen Music Festivals, the latter of which
he attended for
four consecutive summers.
Prior engagements include serving as Principal Clarinet
with the Philharmonie der Nationen based in Hamburg,
Germany.
While with the Philharmonie he performed in over 250
concerts in virtually every major city in Europe. He
has also served
as Principal Clarinet of the Colorado Music Festival,
in Boulder, Colorado and has been featured in Central
America
with his reed trio Trianche as a featured ensemble for
the Costa Rica Music Festival.
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