Artistic Staff

Dr. Randolph Foy, Music Director/Conductor

Dr. Randolph Foy, Director of Orchestral Activities, NC State University, holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Iowa (organ) and a doctorate (conducting) from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His teachers have included David Boe and Fenner Douglass (organ) and Frederick Prausnitz (conducting), and John Spitzer (musicology; dissertation “Textural Transformations: The Instrumental Music of Krzysztof Penderecki, 1960-73”). He has conducted in the Baltimore/Washington area, and has taught at the University of Richmond, NC School of Science and Mathematics (founding faculty) and NC School of the Arts. In addition to his teaching and administrative duties as Associate Director of the Department of Music, NC State, Foy conducts and teaches at the Governor's School of NC in Winston-Salem, a summer program for gifted high school students. He has been called “an inspired and inspiring director” and “a totally committed musician whose mission is to spark in his audience the same level of enthusiasm that he clearly feels."

Lin-Ti Wang, Symphony and Chamber Orchestra Concertmaster

Lin-Ti Wang holds degrees from Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, and has been a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Young Musicians Orchestra, and has served as concertmaster of the Hwa-Kan Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the Formosa String Quartet and performed as soloist with the Hwa-Kan Symphony and Guang-Jen String Orchestra in Taiwan. Lin-Ti (Lindi) began as concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra in the fall of 2003.

David Oh, Principal Cello, Symphony

Mr. Oh holds degrees from the Saint Louis Conservatory and East Carolina University. He has been a member of the Virginia Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony. He is active as a free-lance musician in Raleigh, where he performs frequently with the North Carolina Symphony and with various chamber music ensembles.

Mark Foster, Principal Cello, Chamber Orchestra

Mark Foster, a North Carolina native, began his cello studies at the age of eleven in the public school system. He attended the Yehudi Menuhin School in London and the University of Southern California where he completed a Bachelor of Music degree in 2004. His principal teachers have included Jonathan Kramer, Leonid Gorokhov, and Ronald Leonard. He has participated in master classes with such notable cellists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, and Desmond Hoebig. Since returning to North Carolina in 2004, Mark has been actively performing and teaching across the state.