Ms.
Snedeker is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, from which
she holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree and a Performer’s
Certificate in Horn and where she is currently completing her
Master’s degree in Performance and Literature. Additionally,
she spent the 2005-06 academic year studying horn with A. Kendall
Betts at the University of New Hampshire.
Gretchen
is an active freelance performer, having appeared with the Rochester
Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Skaneatleles Chamber Music Festival, the Binghamton
Philharmonic, and the Kingston Symphony of Ontario, Canada.
During
her years at the Eastman School, Ms. Snedeker performed with the
Eastman Wind Ensemble in a tour of Japan, Taiwan, and Macao for
the Sony Music Corporation and at Carnegie Hall for the 2005
College
Band Directors Association Symposium.
As
a soloist, she has appeared on WXXI’s radio program, “Live from Hochstein” and
with the Finger Lakes and Greece Symphony Orchestras. Gretchen also
won the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s Eisenhart Award
for wind performance in 2000.
An
avid supporter of contemporary music, she has participated in
several world premiere performances, and in 2003, worked with Pulitzer
Prize winning composer, John Corigliano at the June in Buffalo
Festival. Her influential teachers include A. Kendall Betts,
W. Peter Kurau,
and Derek Conrod.
She
runs the Natural Horn Studies Program at Eastman, and has joined
the Buffalo Philharmonic. |
