Don’t expect to see Donald Foster’s name on the credits for “The Adventures of Tin Tin” or “War Horse” even though he played the clarinet on both soundtracks.

“Music is actually the last thing that goes into a movie,” said Foster, who teaches music at Moreno Valley College. “The movie has to be completely done in order to add music to it and once the music is added you can’t cut anything.”

Foster, who has taught music in the Riverside Community College District since 1997 and became the first full-time music instructor at Moreno Valley College six years ago, has been featured on sound tracks for 187 movies including “Toy Story 3,” two “Pirates of the Caribbean” films and the most recent Indiana Jones movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

“If you hear a clarinet, it’s probably me,” Foster said.

He’s also principal clarinetist with the Santa Barbara and Pasadena Symphony Orchestras.

Foster started paying the clarinet in seventh grade. By the time he reached high school he was winning spots in various honors orchestras including one that performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He earned a scholarship to USC, once known as the Juilliard of the West, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance.

Some people say that classical music is a dying art but Foster disagrees.

He considers it his job as a teacher, especially at the community college level where he’s not working with music majors or trained musicians, is to inspire his students to want to listen to classical music or at the very least be open to hearing it.