Jeffrey Snider

Jeffrey Snider is a native of Buffalo, New York, and received both bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas in 1996. In 1998 he returned to the UNT as an Associate Professor in the College of Music and now serves as chair of the Division of Vocal Studies.

Recent operatic roles include the Count di Luna in Verdi's Il Trovatore in El Paso, Germont in La Traviata with the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana, and the Father in Hansel and Gretel with "The Living Opera" in Richardson, Texas. In May of 2005 he placed second in Opera New York's inaugural "Chester Ludgin American Verdi Baritone Competition", singing before a panel that included opera stars Placido Domingo, James Morris, and Regina Resnick.

Dr. Snider's recent concert appearances include the title role in Handel's oratorio Saul under the direction of Dallas Opera music director Graeme Jenkin, the solos in Handels' Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the "Messiah Festival" in Lindsborg, Kansas, the baritone solo in Orff's Carmina Burana with the Knoxville, Tennessee and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestras, the baritone solos in Vaughan Williams' Hodie with the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the Durufle Requiem and Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with the Tulsa Oratorio Society.

He is the baritone soloist on the Klavier recording of Orff's Carmina Burana with the University of North Texas Wind Symphony and Grand Chorus under the direction of Eugene Corporon. Of this performance J. F. Weber of Fanfare magazine writes, "this is one of the finest...male soloists I have ever heard in this work".