RMSO Music Director Laureate
CARLOS FOGGIN
2025 Professional Artist of the Year
2024 YYC Music Awards - Community Ensemble of the Year
2023 Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal
2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award
2016 Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists
Carlos Foggin is the Music Director Laureate of the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra, having conducted the ensemble since its inception in 2016 through 2025. Mr Foggin is the proud recipient of the 2025 Professional Artist of the Year Award (Mayor’s Night of the Arts), a YYCMusic Award for Community Ensemble of the year (2024), awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2023 for outstanding service to the Province for his work in expanding the reach of the arts in Alberta, and named the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Emerging Artist in 2020.
Equally comfortable in the opera pit or on the concert stage, he has been afforded opportunities to share his art widely in North America, Asia, and Western Europe.
Mr. Foggin is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the 100th organist to be given the society’s highest honour.