Rate My Professor Marc Foster

Dr. Marc Ashley Foster is Chair of the Department of Music and Director of Choral Activities at High Point University (HPU). In his tenure at HPU since 2009, he has overseen the expansion of the Department of Music, including the addition of 23 new music faculty, 90 music majors/minors, 133 students in choirs, 13 new instrumental ensembles, and over 375 students in private lessons. Dr. Foster holds a Doctor of Music Arts (DMA) in Choral Conducting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a Master of Sacred Music (MSM) from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelor of Music Education (BM Ed) in Choral Conducting and Voice from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to HPU, he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, served as Director of Worship Arts Ministries at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and as Artistic Director of the Mississippi Chorus. He has 17 years of experience in church ministry in Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Mississippi.

His ensembles have performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, St. Peter's Basilica in Italy, Vienna, Austria, and Budapest, Hungary. They were featured collegiate choirs at the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference in 2013, the regional conference of the College Music Society in 2015, North Carolina American Choral Directors Association Conferences in 2015 and 2018, the Southern Division ACDA Conference in 2016, and the Quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church in 2016. The HPU Chamber Singers have appeared on compact disc recordings from Hinshaw Music Inc. and premiered choral works by Dan Forrest, Richard Waters, James Green, David Schwoebel, and others. Dr. Foster conducted the 9th/10th grade North Carolina All-State Chorus in May 2015. He has lectured and conducted clinics, workshops, and honor-choir events internationally in Prague, Czech Republic; York, England; and Vienna, Austria, and nationally throughout Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. He served as Research and Standards Chair for College/University Choirs for the North Carolina ACDA and Music in Worship Chair for the Mississippi ACDA chapter.