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Conductor

Music Director of the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra, Carlos' artistic leadership has been described as keenly sensitive, grand and confident, and breathtakingly musical.  Experienced in wind band and choral idioms, he now works primarily with concert Orchestras and Opera Companies. In particularly, he is excited to work to work on interdisciplinary projects including (in whole on in part): orchestra, singers, actors, dance, film, projection, and electronics

He has commissioned and premiered a number of large-scale works.

Premieres conducted

  • Concert Suite “The Four Seasons of COVID-19” (2022) by Dr. Kristin Flores (13’)

  • Overture “Winter Song” (2020) by Duarte Silva (12’)

  • Ballet "Dance of the Three Empires" (2017) by Claude Lapalme (10')

  • Opera "General Mi and the Pastry Chef" (2017) by Yang Guang (15')

    • Singers, Orchestra, GuZheng & Electronics

  • Zenkora Universe (2017) by Wesley Chu (90')

  • Gods of Olympus (2016) by Kevin J. Ponte (30')

  • Opera "Annie Davison" (2015) by Arthur Bachmann (120')

Carlos Foggin conducted the orchestra with clarity and a sense of style, making the rhythmic transitions from number to number in a secure, musical manner. [They were]...fully up to snuff.
— Ken Delong - Calgary Herald
Carlos Foggin conducts La Traviata (Mercury Opera)