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KENT FOSS is an active trumpet performer and educator based out of Durham, North Carolina. Recent performance highlights include two European tours as featured trumpet soloist with the Midwest Ambassadors of Music, a summer spent at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as principal trumpet of the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute Orchestra, and numerous solo performances throughout the United States and abroad. A recent resident of the Phoenix, Arizona area, Kent regularly performed with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Arizona, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Arizona Lyric Opera Theater and the Salt River Brass Band, among many other well-known area ensembles.

Kent Foss holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University, where he served as a graduate teaching assistant under Regents' Professor David Hickman. He holds a Masters in Performance from Arizona State University and a Bachelors of Music Education from South Dakota State University. Recent scholarly activities include publication of his edition of Oskar Böhme's Trumpet Concerto in F Minor for trumpet and orchestra.

As a music educator, Dr. Foss has held teaching positions at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Arizona State University, in addition to maintaining a successful private trumpet studio with students ranging from beginner to adult of all ability levels. Kent's students regularly participate in regional honor bands and all-state festivals, and have performed with the Phoenix Youth Orchestra and been accepted to the internationally known Interlochen Center for the Arts.

  © 2010 Kent Foss