Percussionist Chris Fosnaugh is currently a regular performer with symphony orchestras across the nation. A former member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Arizona, he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, the Richmond Symphony and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra among others. Fosnaugh is also a past fellow of the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, and a former substitute with the New World Symphony.

As a member of the Cadets of Bergen County Drum & Bugle Corps from 1997-1999, he served as percussion section leader in 1998, during which they won their seventh Drum Corps InternationaI World Championship. He earned the Bachelor of Music degree at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where he was a Baur Scholarship awardee. He continued on to the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a Master of Music degree with Performer’s Certificate and was a teaching assistant in the percussion studio of John Beck. Fosnaugh also pursued additional post-graduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a student of Richard Weiner and Paul Yancich. He can be heard on CD recordings of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Kansas City Symphony, and on recordings of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on iTunes.

Fosnaugh is a former faculty member of the North Carolina Governor’s School in Winston-Salem, NC. He teaches drum set lessons at Randolph College, maintains a private studio in Lynchburg, and instructs the E.C. Glass High School percussion section. Chris Fosnaugh endorses Vic Firth sticks and mallets and is a Vic Firth Education Team member.