Overview
Double Bass, Electric Bass
Dr. Mark Foley is Principal Double Bass of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and spends his summers with the orchestra of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. A mainstay of the Wichita jazz scene, Foley is a first-call bassist for club dates and sessions with local and national players including the jazz faculty of Wichita State University. He also plays rock and bluegrass. As a composer, he writes classical and jazz; he also produces live and recorded electronic music.
Foley is the founder and musical director of the Knob Festival of New Music, an annual series of concerts presenting performances of wildly diverse new works by local, national and international artists.
A native Minnesotan, Foley holds degrees in music performance from the University of Minnesota, the Eastman School of Music, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where his doctoral thesis brought to light a previously unpublished double bass concerto written in Vienna at the time of Haydn.
Foley plays a double bass made in 1810 by Raphael and Antonio Gagliano of Naples, Italy.
Bachelor of Music in performance - University of Minnesota
Master of Music in performance - The Eastman School
Doctor of Music in performance - The Jacobs School, Indiana University