Aubrey Foard

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Aubrey Foard is an American tubist residing in Los Angeles, CA.

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Foard is the principal tubist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra[1] and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. He also performs with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and has played as a substitute with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has been heard twice on NPR's Performance Today: once as a soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams' Concerto for Bass Tuba and again performing William Bolcolm's Virtuosity Rag for brass quintet.[2] Foard is the only tubist to have won the Music Academy of the West concerto competition twice.[3] He was also a prizewinner in the Minnesota Orchestra's Young Artist Competition (2003).

Foard was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds a Master of Music Degree from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has studied with Alan Baer, Ron Bishop, David Kirk, Mark Lawrence, Norman Pearson, and Fritz Kaenzig.

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  1. ^ http://www.wvsymphony.org/orchestra/Musicians.php
  2. ^ http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/?month=9&day=10&year=2007
  3. ^ http://www.musicacademy.org/Academy/Release34.html
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