Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder performed 15 of his original songs with his band Nature Boy Explorer in Schwetzingen Germany, on June 11 and 12 as part of the delegation representing Fredericksburg and UMW in Fredericksburg’s German Sister City.Senior music major Austin O’Rourke played drums and also sang and played guitar on his own song Almost but Not, […]
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder performed his original composition Qwee for processed harp, accordion and video at the Classical Revolution’s Night of the Living Composer at Balliceaux in Richmond, Va., on May 15. Accompanying him was UMW alum harpist Becky Brown ’15, who performed her original composition, Hold Still, a multimedia self-portrait for pencil, copper, Arduino on paper, poetry and video in Max.Classical Revolution is a Richmond-based collective of passionate musicians […]
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder’s original composition, Our House on the Hill, was released by Fuzzy Panda Records on the compilation Thirsty and Miserable in memory of Jeff Prosser on April 3, 2016. The recording was done at the University of Mary Washington Department of Music’s recording studio featuring Becky Brown ’15 on harp and assistant engineer Paige Naylor ’14 […]
Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, performed his multimedia show Thursday, March 24 at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, Friday, March 25 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, Saturday, March 26 at Le Laboratories Cambridge in Cambridge, MA, Monday, March 28 at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ, Wednesday, March 30 at Barbés Brooklyn & Thursday, March 31 at Brooklyn College’s 30th […]
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder, performed his piece Qwee for processed soprano, harp, accordion and video at the 2016 Society of Composer Incorporated Region III Conference at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on Feb. 26. Accompanying him were UMW alums harpist Becky Brown ’15 and soprano Paige Naylor ’14.Dr. Snyder’s former students also presented their works […]
