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Barry Snyder, piano
Barry Snyder, internationally acclaimed pianist and teacher entered onto the international stage as a result of his winning three major prizes at the 1966 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (silver medal,Pan American Union award and chamber music prize).Since then,Snyder has recorded over fifty CD’s and given concerts and masterclasses around the world spanning over five decades.
Solo recitals, collaborative recitals and masterclasses have taken him to venues in such cities as Moscow, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Bangkok, London, Barcelona, Berlin, New York, Washington D.C., Seattle and Vancouver.Snyder has performed diverse concerti with orchestras of Baltimore, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Montreal, Warsaw and Singapore collaborating with such conductors as Robert Shaw, Leopold Stokowski, David Zinman, Charles Dutroit, Sixten Ehrling and Arthur Fiedler.As a chamber musician Snyder has worked with Hermann Prey, Jan deGaetani, Zvi Zeitlin(recorded the complete works of Stravinsky for violin and piano)Oleh Krysa, Misha Kopelman, Asako Urushihara(recorded the complete Schumann , Schubert and Brahms works for violin and piano), Sylvia Rosenberg, Bonita Boyd and Steven Doane(recorded the complete works of Gabriel Faure for cello and piano;winner of Diapason d’Or award).Collaboration also with string quartets include Curtis, Cleveland and Chilingarian.Snyder was a founding member of the Eastman Trio performing with them for many years.
Barry Snyder’s commitment to performing 20th and 21st century music has resulted in a number of premieres of works specifically written for him:Verne Reynolds’ Florilegium, Vols.I, II and III, Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Winds;Carter Pann’s Improvisations on the Name Barry Snyder, Fantasy Inventions;Sydney Hodkinson’s Concerto…A Shifting Trek and first performances by Augusta Reed Thomas, John La Montaine and Toshio Hosakawa.
Snyder has been Professor of Piano at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music since 1970.In demand as a teacher, Snyder has given masterclasses in such schools as the Royal Northern College of Music(Manchester, U.K.), Trinity College, the Guidhall and Royal Academy(London), the Academy of Music(Krakow, Poland), Normal University(Taipei, Taiwan), Hochschule fur Musik(Freiburg, Germany), Beethoven Conservatory(Buenos Aires), Conservatorium and University of Australia(Perth), the Manhattan School of Music, University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Houston.Barry Snyder is listed in the publication The Most Wanted Piano Teachers.
Highlights of the 2014-15 season include celebration concerts for Sydney Hodkinson’s(composer) 80th birthday in KodakHall Eastman Theater and in the chapel at Stetson University in Deland, Florida;masterclassess at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, U.K;Shanghai, Quingdao, Shenyang and Dalian, China;s;recitals at the American Matthay Festival at the Eastman School and Penn State;recital at the Bachauer International Summer Festival and recital/masterclasses in Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
Highlights of the 2016-17 season include concerts and masterclasses in Iceland, Sweden and Denmark;continually recording with Oleh Krysa violinist for Octavio label in Japan. Barry Snyder studied with renowned teachers Wilbur Hollman, Vladimir Sokoloff and Cecile Genhart as well as John Celentano and Brooks Smith for chamber music. Barry Snyder is now Professor Emeritus of the Eastman School after 47 years of teaching and currently Adjunct professor at N.Y.U in New York City.