Mick Foster

Mick Foster is a saxophonist, clarinettist and composer, noted as a specialist in the baritone saxophone working in jazz, commercial and classical music. He has appeared with the big bands of John Dankworth, Stan Sulzmann and Mike Garrick, the Back to Basie Orchestra, the Humphrey Lyttelton Band, Ginger Baker’s Air Force and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Cleo Laine, Jacqui Dankworth, Trudy Kerr, Mark Lockheart, Guy Barker, Digby Fairweather, Swing Out Sister, the BBC Concert Orchestra, English National Opera and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra; is in demand as a session musician and has recorded three albums under his own name.

Mick has written for the London Jazz Orchestra, Quartz Saxophone Quartet, Docklands Sinfonia, Onyx Brass. He teaches at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Goldsmiths College, and tutors for the National Youth Jazz Collective.