DePauw University
In addition to DePauw University School of Music, Leonard Foy serves as artist/faculty at Birch Creek Academy and the Interlochen Arts Camp. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and also the performer’s certificate at the Eastman School of Music. He completed extensive post-graduate study at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His trumpet teachers include Charles Gorham, Barbara Butler, Vincent DiMartino, Louis Davidson, and Stanley Friedman. His jazz instructors include David Baker, Rayburn Wright, Bill Dobbins, and Raymond Ricker.
Foy has been featured in both jazz and classical performance arts throughout the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Finland, Argentina, England, and Russia. His career includes performances with a variety of celebrity artists and extensive engagement with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Grammy Award winning Nashville Symphony Orchestra, recording and touring internationally since 1991 with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra acclaimed “the best Jazz Repertory Band in the country” (The New Yorker), and performing cornet since 2003 with the Brass Band of Battle Creek admired as the “Rolls Royce of Brass Bands” (Brass Band World). Recent featured soloist CD recordings include Smack Dab In The Middle with the Hal Leonard Jazz Orchestra conducted by John Clayton. Memorable CD recordings include Beethoven Symphony No. 7 with the Nashville Symphony; Live 3 BBBC, Music for Battle Creek, and A Christmas Festival with the Brass Band of Battle Creek; Big Band Treasures Live, Tribute to a Generation and the DVD Live at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Foy maintains active as soloist and clinician.