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KENT FOSS is an active trumpet performer and educator in the Phoenix metropolitan area. 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 in the Midwest and Desert Southwest. In the Phoenix area Kent regularly performs as extra/substitute with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, and also has performed with Ballet Arizona, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Arizona Lyric Opera Theater and the Salt River Brass Band, among many other well-known area ensembles.

Kent is currently completing work toward the Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance degree at Arizona State University where he is 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 the Oskar Bohme Concerto in F Minor for trumpet and orchestra.

As a music educator, Kent Foss maintains an active private trumpet studio in the Phoenix area with students ranging from beginner to advanced of all ages. In addition to his teaching position at Arizona State University, Kent also serves as adjunct trumpet instructor at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, Arizona. Kent's students regularly participate in the Arizona All-State Band, Arizona All-State Jazz Band, Phoenix Youth Orchestra, and have been accepted to the internationally known Interlochen Center for the Arts. Kent has adjudicated for the Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association regional festivals among other area contests and honor bands.

  © 2009 Kent Foss