Joseph Foley
Adjunct Faculty Member
Expertise: Trumpet
Phone: 978-934-3858
Fax: 978-934-3034
Office: Durgin Hall 404
Bachelor of Music, Boston University; Master of Music, Boston University Mr. Foley was a Trustee Scholar and studied trumpet with Roger Voisin, Rolf Smedvig and Peter Chapman.
Joseph Damian Foley is a native of Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Boston University as a Trustee Scholar, where he studied trumpet with Roger Voisin, Rolf Smedvig, and Peter Chapman, and composition with Samuel Headrick. He received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from that institution, and was twice given the award for "Outstanding Brass Player." He also studied with Arnold Jacobs, Bob McCoy, and Vince Penzerella.
A former founding member of the Atlantic Brass Quintet, he has
performed in more than a dozen countries on four continents. He has also performed and toured with many prestigious ensembles including the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops, as well as the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Musica Viva, the New Hampshire Symphony, Opera Providence, the Springfield Symphony, and the
All-American College Orchestra at EPCOT Center. Mr. Foley has been Principal Trumpet of the Rhode Island Philharmonic since 1990. As a soloist he has performed with many ensembles including the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra, and thecontemporary music ensemble ALEA III.
Mr. Foley is also a gifted arranger, with over fifty brass transcriptions to his credit. Among his highly praised arrangements for brass are Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Gershwin's "An American in Paris." He has also arranged and composed for such diverse ensembles as full symphony orchestra and jazz ensemble.
As an educator, he has given clinics and master classes at music schools around the world, and currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and the Boston University School for the Arts and Assistant Professor at Rhode Island College.
"...Foley, whose work is technically ingenious, musically sophisticated, and often dazzling." -The Boston Globe, (MA)
"Sterling solo trumpet work..." - Sunday Telegram, (Worcester, MA)
"...the concert gave the Philharmonic a chance to show off some of its brightest star-players such as Foley, who had no trouble tossing off the Haydn and giving the finale a sunny spin." - Providence (RI) Bulletin-Journal
"Trumpeter Joseph Foley’s delicate solo that began the Intermezzo was a thing to behold..."- Quad City Times, (Iowa)
"...Jan Krzywicki’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, which alternated some tense and stinging bravura writing for the instruments. For Joseph Foley and David Horne, sizzlers both, this was virtual child's play." -The Boston Globe
"... it's hard not to make special mention of the technical and lyrical qualities of Joseph Foley, a magnificent trumpet player gifted with an elegant power which confers a very special radiance to the ensemble." -The Brass Bulletin, (Switzerland)
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