Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder

Adjunct Faculty in Music

Music Department

Profile

Randall Snyder was born in Chicago in 1944 and studied saxophone with his father, a professional jazz musician. During high school he received a scholarship to the inaugural Stan Kenton Band Camp and in 1962 was honored with a Downbeat Magazine Student Hall of Fame Award. He attended Quincy College and the University of Wisconsin, earning a D.M.A. in 1973, and later studied Korean music at the Traditional Performing Arts Institute in Seoul. Snyder has taught at colleges in Illinois and Wisconsin and at the University of Nebraska, where he was resident composer. He currently is a freelance musician living in Lincoln, teaching part-time at Concordia and at Peru State College. Some 100 of his pieces have been published, and 200 of his works can be downloaded for study through the University of Nebraska’s Digital Commons. Over 30 compositions have been commercially recorded on the CRS, VMM, North/South, Coronet, Opus One, Albany, and Elan labels.

Education

D.M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.M., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Quincy College

Courses Taught

World Music, History of Rock