Music with a mission
The Victoria Piano Trio - made up of three kindred spirits, each a dedicated artist in their own right— blends soulful expression, technical brilliance, and deep musical friendship in moving performances that aim to spark connection, foster empathy, and inspire positive change. Collectively, the trio’s members have performed for audiences in ten countries spanning four continents. Through their performances and outreach, they strive to create meaningful experiences that share the joys of chamber music and make the world a more compassionate place, one note at a time.
The Victoria Piano Trio is dedicated to serving charitable and nonprofit organizations through benefit concerts and events. Our fundraising partnerships with international, national, and regional organizations have included Habitat for Humanity, Quality of Life Retreats, the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts, and P.E.O. International.
Dave Foley has performed concerts in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Russia and the former USSR. He has twice been part of a cultural exchange with the Moscow Conservatory where he performed concerts in Moscow and Tambov and recorded a broadcast for Russian Radio. He has been a prize-winner in numerous competitions, including the Durham Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts, and UNCSA International Music Program concerto competitions, and he was awarded first prize in the Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition. He has studied with Mary-Louise Hallauer, Eric Larsen, Claude Frank and Sony recording artist Robert McDonald. Dave serves as the Minister of Music and Discipleship at the Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church and is the Director of A# Piano Studio in Howard County. Most recently, David performed two newly discovered songs by composer Louis Talma at the Library of Congress and as a composer has had three choral anthems and one solo piano piece published by Hope Publishing Company and Lorenz Publishing.
Violinist Melissa Hullman has been invited to share the stage at such diverse venues as the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, the World Bank, Bethlehem Musikfest, Maryland Artscape, and Brooklyn's Jalopy Theatre. Her ongoing solo project series VIO/LUMINA plays on the edge of possibility by using improvised and composed solo works to illuminate the current state of violin playing as an art form, fusing the depth and breadth of music now with the brilliance of the classical tradition. As a soloist, she has appeared on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Concerts and Conversations series, the BMA's Art After Hours series, with Full Circle Dance Company and Ballet Theatre of Maryland, and on the St Louis Church Concert Series, among others. She has premiered and performed new works in performances with Inscape Chamber Orchestra and the Ann Arbor Symphony, and as a high-school aged violinist won her first orchestral audition as a member of the York Symphony Orchestra. Always exploring, her musical collaborations range from solo, chamber, and orchestral playing to tango, jazz, folk, free improv, and Balkan, African, and Indian music. Her projects include recordings featuring composer Jonathan Leshnoff, Americana songwriter Caleb Stine, Montreal indie folk band Frank Feutre, and singer/songwriter Ellen Cherry; and performances with jazz pianists César Orozco and Marc Irwin, tango trio with Jake Leckie and Susan Alcorn, and Indian music with Carnatic vocalist K.S. Resmi and percussionist N. Scott Robinson.
Her career also features appointments to the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory (Performing Arts and Medicine) and the Peabody Preparatory (violin/viola) and masterclasses and presentations in the US and abroad, including sessions for the American String Teacher's Association National Conference, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Organization, and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Melissa Hullman’s pre-college and collegiate-level students have garnered top prizes at national and international competitions, with performances broadcast live on The Violin Channel, studying at the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Cleveland Institute, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Peabody Conservatory, among others.
Doug Jameson is the Principal Cellist of the Prince George's Philharmonic, and performs with the Inscape Chamber Orchestra and the Victoria Piano Trio. Doug has performed internationally with the Singapore Symphony and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra, and toured China extensively with the Mantovani Orchestra. He has played with Bernadette Peters and Sheena Easton, for the Vice President, and he was featured in the opening to ESPN's Sunday Night Football. A sought after orchestral musician, Mr. Jameson has performed with the Annapolis Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Apollo Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Kennedy Center Gospel Choir Orchestra, Bach in Baltimore, New Orchestra of Washington, Washington Summer Opera, and with opera and chamber ensembles at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Hippodrome Theater, Corcoran Gallery, Artscape, and the National Gallery of Art.
Doug records with Inscape for the Dorian Sono Luminus label, including for their critically acclaimed releases American Aggregate and Sprung Rhythm, the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Doug has performed numerous world premiers with Inscape, as well as with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, the Great Noise Ensemble, and at the Next/Now Festival and New Voices Festival.
Doug received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Cello Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He is the Director of Strings at the Park School, where he also teaches composition and studio production. Doug serves as the cello section coach for the FAME Youth Orchestra and the Baltimore String Orchestra Camp, and directs the BSOC Viola/Cello/Bass Ensemble. He is in his eighteenth year of teaching cello in Baltimore, where his students have taken part in All County, All State, Baltimore Symphony Side by Side, and numerous other festivals and orchestras throughout the region.