The winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, double bassist Xavier Foley has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta Symphony, Nashville Symphony, the Brevard Concert Orchestra, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and with the Sphinx Virtuosi, both in Carnegie Hall and on a national tour. Foley plays Schubert, Mozart, Khaleghi, and Gliere, plus a new work commissioned by Clarion Concerts.