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JUSTINE FOY - VIOLONCELLO
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Justine Foy was born in Washington, DC and began her musical studies at the age of six.
She graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music, which she
attended on merit scholarship. As a recitalist, Miss Foy has played solo and chamber works
throughout the United States, including performing a world premiere - Carl Safirra’s Sonata for
Cello and Piano in Seattle, Washington.
Throughout the 1990’s, she was the cellist of the Alexandria String Quartet. She founded the
Kokopelli Ensemble, performing classics to Klezmer in the Pacific Northwest area. For a time
she was the featured instrumental soloist for the Bet Alef Meditation Synagogue, and has
recorded her own arrangement of Kol Nidre, inspired by the years at Bet Alef.
Miss Foy has extensive experience in opera, musical theater, and café music, and has
performed with the Seattle Opera, the Vagabond Orchestra, and numerous theater orchestras.
Her recording experience has brought her to Detroit, Washington, Atlanta, and west coast
studios. She has recorded for film, theater, and advertisements, as well as for local, national,
and international artists’ compact discs. In the pop medium, she has written and arranged
string parts for cabaret music, jazz and rock and has worked with Grammy winning artists such
as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Olivia Newton-John. She has also recorded movie scores for
filmmakers such as Robert Altman and Robert Townsend.
As an orchestral cellist, she has played under the batons of Leonard Bernstein, Robert Spano,
and Michael Morgan.
Miss Foy’s teaching career includes private teaching and coaching semi-professional and
student groups, such as the Lake Union Chamber Orchestra, affiliated with the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where she also took part in the Healing Music Project.
She has served on the faculties of the Cascade Academy of Music and the Georgia Academy of
Music. Currently she coaches students at the Paideia School, celebrating with them in their
debut at Lincoln Center in New York in 2005. Miss Foy has been on the faculty of the
Neighborhood Music Schools of Georgia State University since 2003, as the cello instructor of
their Master String Teacher program.
She has performed at music festivals worldwide, including National Music Camps at
Interlochen, Michigan and Tokyo, Japan, the Gettysburg College Summer Music Festival, and
the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. Justine studied Orchestral Literature with Samuel Mayes. Other
influential teachers include Vsevolod Lezhnev, Jeffrey Solow, and Oliver Edel.
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