Dan Foster, Aoede Consort
Founder/Artistic Director Dan Foster was trained in Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College as a singer, pianist, organist, and conductor. His teachers included Joan Lippincott (organ), Joseph Flummerfelt and James Jordan (conducting), Thomas Faracco and Marvin Keenze (voice performance/pedagogy), and Dalton Baldwin, the late Glenn Parker, and J.J. Penna (accompanying). He studied the training of young singers at the American Boychoir School. As a tenor, Mr. Foster sang for three years in the Spoleto Festival International appearing in Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss), The Excursions of Mr. Brocek (Leos Janacek), and Falstaff (Verdi) and has returned for the past two years as the organist and pianist with the Antioch Chamber Ensemble. He has sung for two years at the Pitten Festival, Austria, appearing in The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan), and La Traviata (Verdi).

Mr. Foster has sung concert tours in Taiwan, Korea, France, Holland, and Italy. He has performed and recorded extensively with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, performing many masterworks including the Mass in B-Minor, The Passion According to St. John (J.S. Bach), Ein Deutches Requiem (Johannes Brahms), Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Arthur Honegger), and War Requiem (Benjamin Britten). He has also recorded with the renowned early music ensemble Fuma Sacre.

Major works Mr. Foster has conducted include two of Vivaldi's settings of the Gloria RV 588 and RV 589; Magnificat, Cantata 131 “Aus der Tiefe” and Cantata 140 “Wachet auf” by J.S. Bach; Messiah by G.F. Handel; Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms; Fauré’s Requiem and Messe Basse; the premier of Timothy Luby's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, the premiers of Magnificat and Te Deum by Larry G. Nuckolls, and the premier of The Joseph Triptych by Thomas F. Savoy.

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