“Peter was that rare composer/lyricist who was equally gifted at both. His music is as sophisticated and surprising as it is catchy, and his lyrics poetic and graceful— across an astonishing stylistic range. You end up caught off-guard at how your head and your heart are moved in tandem: astonished at the craft, pierced by the insight.” — Manoel Felciano
Featured Events & News
Now available for digital download and streaming! Out of Myself - Songs of Peter Foley, a live album of 22 of Peter’s inspired songs performed by a dazzling array of Broadway and opera stars, has been released on Center Stage Records.
Adam Gopnik’s poignant essay about Peter that appeared in The New Yorker’s online Cultural Comment section on June 1, 2023. “In the summer of his death, Peter Foley and I talked about the shape of an artist’s life made under the special pressures of the modern musical theatre.”
Recent News
September 15, 2025 • Songs from an Unmade Bed 20th Anniversary Concert at Merkin Hall, NYC. One night only concert of Mark Campbell’s theatrical song cycle to benefit Broadway Cares and The Trevor Project. Hear Michael Winther, the show’s original star, perform “To Sing” (music by Peter Foley, lyrics by Mark Campbell). Also featuring BD Wong, Max Chernin, Darius de Haas, and more.
September 6, 2024 • On Thursday, September 12, catch Craig Rubano singing Peter Foley's "You Captured My Heart" at NYC’s 54 Below in the 9th Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata, a lighthearted competition of Harvard alumni vs. Yale alumni, as songwriters and performers. Joshua Rosenblum leads and music directs the Yale team. Yale leads this series 5-2-1, and we're sure with Peter on their team they will secure another victory this year!
June 5, 2023 @ 7:30 pm • Come hear Broadway’s finest perform a dazzling range of Peter’s songs from The Hidden Sky, The Names We Gave Him, Bloom, Songs from an Unmade Bed, and more, in a one-night-only, all-Foley celebration concert at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Featuring Shereen Ahmed, Kate Baldwin, Mikaela Bennett, Max Chernin, Eisa Davis, Melissa Errico, Manoel Felciano, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Jason Gotay, Marya Grandy, Darron Hayes, Christian Probst, Michael Protacio, David Rowen, Sam Simahk, Michael Winther, and collegiate choral singers. Music Supervision by Rob Berman. Directed by Leah Hofmann.
May 22, 2023 • A celebration of the life and legacy of late Broadway great, Rebecca Luker, at Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC. The concert features an incredible cast of singers performing 20 world-premiere songs from the The Rebecca Luker Songbook, including “Broadway,” Peter Foley’s setting of a poem by Sara Teasdale. Music direction by Joseph Thalken.
February 10-14, 2023 • Melissa Errico performs her seductive suite of Noir songs inspired by her album Out Of The Dark, including Peter Foley and Adam Gopnik’s song “On Vit, On Aime,” at NYC’s Birdland.
December 14th-18th, 2022 • These VSO Brass Quintet & Counterpoint seasonal concerts feature a blend of brass and voices, conducted by Nathaniel G. Lew. Counterpoint vocal ensemble sang “There Is No Rose,” an SATB choral work by Peter Foley.
February 18, 2022 • Melissa Errico sings "On Vit, On Aime," a song written for her by Peter Foley and Adam Gopnik, on her album Out of the Dark: The Film Noir Project (Ghostlight Records), which she dedicated in loving memory to Peter.
December 8-11, 2021 • Loosely based on a true story, this new musical is about an amnesiac veteran of the First World War, the doctor who treated him, and the many women who, in denial of their grief, claimed him as their lost beloved.

