Barry Snyder, Piano

2010: First 3 Week Session

Faculty, Eastman. BM, MM, Performer's Certificate, Artist's Diploma, Eastman.

Barry Snyder studied piano with Vladimir Sokoloff and CŽcile Genhart and accompanying with Brooks Smith. He has been a member of the Eastman Trio (1976-82) and the Meadowmount Trio (1989-90), and was a triple prize winner in the 1966 Van Cliburn International Competition. He was Mu Phi Epsilon Musician of the Year (1987).

Mr. Snyder has made thirty-two solo, concerto, and chamber recordings on Bay City, Golden Crest, Mercury, Gasparo, Pro Arte, Pro Viva, Vox, Fun House, and Bridge Records. He has performed and given master classes in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Australia, Europe, Poland, Russia, and South America. He has been a soloist with Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, National, Montreal, Singapore, Krakow Radio/TV, Nagoya, and Japan Philharmonic Orchestras, and has premiered works by Syd Hodkinson, Verne Reynolds, Toshio Hosokawa, David Liptak, Carter Pann, Alec Wilder, and John LaMontaine.

He is listed in the The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the United States. He was awarded the Diapason D'or for recordings of the complete cello and piano works by Fauré with Steven Doane and was the recipient of the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Teaching Excellence (1975).