Music: Dr. Jeff Snedeker

At CWU, Jeffrey Snedeker teaches horn, music history, and brass literature and pedagogy, performs with Brass Central (CWU faculty ensemble), and directs the CWU Brass Choir and CWU Horn Ensemble.   The CWUHE maintains an active outreach program for public schools, and was an invited performing ensemble at the 28th , 30th , and 33rd IHS international workshops.   In the Fall of 2004, he was elected Associate Chair of the Music Department, with primary responsibilities as Coordinator of the Graduate Music Program. He received CWU's Presidential Award for Faculty Member of the Year in 2005-2006.

Jeff is active in several national and international organizations, serving on the Board of Directors of the Historic Brass Society, and the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. He has served the IHS in many capacities, including as Publications Editor from 1998-2003, and in 2006, was elected to a two-year term as President of the society.

As a performer, Jeff has received a number of honors, most notably First Place in the Natural Horn Division of the 1991 American Horn Competition. Jeff currently serves as Principal Horn with the Yakima Symphony and Wenatchee Valley Symphony orchestras, as well as the Lake Chelan Bach Fest.   Jeff has been a featured artist, clinician, lecturer, and host of regional, national, and international conferences for the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, Northwest Horn Society, Washington Music Educators Association, among others, and given concerto appearances, traditional recitals, natural horn performances, and jazz gigs all over the US, and in Canada, Germany, Finland, Taiwan, and South Africa. He has also organized and hosted a wide range of events, including early music, brass, and horn workshops. He has held positions and played extra horn with regional, metropolitan, and festival orchestras in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Utah (including the Utah Symphony Orchestra), Virginia, and Michigan. He has also performed with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, BC, and the Seattle Classical Players. With pianist Marilyn Wilbanks, Jeff released his first solo recording in 1996, Musique de Salon: 19th-Century French Music for horn and piano , which includes music for natural and early valved horns with fortepiano, and has received much critical acclaim. A second successful recording devoted to jazz, First Times , was released in 1998, and features the horn in settings ranging from horn/bass duo to fronting a big band.   Jeff has also been featured on recordings of the works of Douglas Hill and Lowell Shaw ( Fripperies, Volumes 1-8 ).

Send email to Jeff Snedeker at snedeker@cwu.edu