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XAVIER FOLEY
In the 2017/18 season, Xavier Foley appeared as soloist with the Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra and in recital at the Perlman Music Program Alumni Recital Series, the Harriman-Jewell Series, and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society. An active chamber musician, he has also played at Wolf Trap, at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and with the Jupiter Chamber Players. As a winner of the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he gave his New York and Washington, DC recital debuts. Foley is only the second bassist in YCA’s 57-year history to win and join its roster. In March 2018, he was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Foley has appeared as soloist with the Atlanta Symphony, Nashville Symphony, the Brevard Concert Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and with the Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall.
His numerous prizes include Philadelphia’s
Musical Fund Society Award to perform on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Series, and first prizes at Astral’s 2014 National Auditions
and at the 2011 International Society of Bassists Competition. He has participated in the Marlboro Music and the Delaware Chamber Music Festivals.
Also a composer, Foley graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2016, after working with Edgar Meyer and Hal Robinson. His bass was crafted by Rumano Solano.
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