Mrs. Foster’s teaching and conducting experience includes public and private schools, grades K-12 and at the university level. She is a former voice teacher at Sacred Heart School for the Arts and previously maintained a private voice studio–La Voce Studio. She is a former choral director at St. Patrick School (1993-1995), Bullitt Central High School (1995-1997) and Sacred Heart Academy (1997-2003), and choirs under her direction received superior ratings at district, state, and national competitions and her choirs have toured extensively.

Under her direction, The Louisville Children’s Choir was selected and performed for the 2005 Kentucky Music Educator’s State Conference, and the Louisville Youth Choir, under her direction, has performed with the Moscow Ballet in their U.S. touring production of The Great Russian Nutcracker, MO5AIC–a cappella vocal sensation, the Louisville Orchestra for Carmina Burana and Bernstein’s Mass, Music Theatre of Louisville’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and guest performances for Stephen Schwartz and the Royal Highnesses King Charles and Queen Consort of England.  She is the former conductor of LYC’s Bella Voce, Girls’ Choir, and The Louisville Children’s Choir, which performed at Carnegie Hall and received national and international performance invitations that include The Grand Old Opry. She has directed LYC’s Chamber and Aria Choirs, the LYC Ambassadors and is the founder of the soprano/alto adult choir, Lascito Coro.

She has been conducting since 1993, and has worked with Z. Randall Stroope, Charlotte Adams, Dr. Meg Hulley Frazier, Dr. Sandra Willets, David Harman, Kimcherie Lloyd, Frank Heller, Gina Epifano, David Brown, and Bill Lathon among others. Mrs. Foster is a past Assistant Guest Choral Conductor of the Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp at Eastern Kentucky University, as well as past conductor for local, regional and state honor choirs in both Kentucky and Indiana. Mrs. Foster is often called upon as an adjudicator and clinician.

Her professional vocal career includes performing with the Kentucky Opera, the Stephen Foster Story, community theatre groups and various solo engagements with churches and private events. She is married to Scott Foster, and they have a son, Aidan Rhys.