Chris Foster
Course Leader and Lecturer in Music
Performing Arts
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom
Biography
Chris Foster is Course Leader for BMus (Hons) Music, and lectures on the undergraduate and postgraduate music programmes. He studied composition with Richard Steinitz and John Casken at Huddersfield Polytechnic in the 1980s, and later with Michael Finnissy at the University of Wolverhampton, with whom he gained his PhD in composition. He also studied flute with David Haslam (Northern Sinfonia), Alan Lockwood (BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra) and Ron Marlow (Halle Orchestra). He is also a trained teacher of the Alexander Technique and a qualified music librarian.
Research Interest
Chris’s research interests focus primarily on composition in several areas: Composition as found material; composition and the open score principle; Composition and collaboration; Musical indeterminacy. His other interests include the philosophy of composition, music and ideas.
