Lin Foulk is Assistant Professor of Horn at Western Michigan
University, where she teaches horn, coaches chamber ensembles,
and is a member of the internationally recognized Western
Brass Quintet. She has recently performed with Boston Brass,
Monarch Brass, the Fontana Chamber Ensemble and regularly
performs with the Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Southwest Michigan
Symphony Orchestras. She has served as Principal Horn with
the Oshkosh and Manitowoc Symphony Orchestras, was a member
of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wisconsin Wind
Orchestra (with which she toured the Netherlands in 2001)
and has frequently performed as substitute and extra musician
with the Milwaukee and Madison Symphony Orchestras. During
the summer, she teaches horn and chamber music at the prestigious
Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, New Hampshire and at WMU's
High School Music Camp (Seminar).
Especially interested in music with horn by female composers,
Dr. Foulk has performed and presented lectures on works by
women at universities throughout the United States and as
a Guest Artist at the International Horn Symposium in Valencia,
Spain. Her first compact disc, “Four Elements: Works
for Horn and Piano by Female Composers,” was released
in 2004. She has also published an annotated guide to works
for horn and piano by female composers and this website, which
lists over 1,000 works with horn by female composers. She
currently serves on the Board of the International Women’s
Brass Conference and recently served on the Board of the International
Alliance for Women in Music, in which she organized IAWM’s
only public annual event for three seasons, a concert held
in various cities throughout the United States.
Dr. Foulk received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master
of Music degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas
City. Her principal teachers include Douglas Hill, Nancy Cochran,
Laurence Lowe, and Bruce Heim. Originally from Macon, Missouri,
she has been committed to music since her early teens, receiving
the Governor’s Scholar Award (sponsored attendance at
the Interlochen Arts Camp) and a National Foundation for Advancement
in the Arts Award in 1994.
(photo by Katrin Talbot)
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