Adam Snider
Tuba
As his beginner band in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania had run fresh out of saxophones, Adam Snider took up the tuba at the age of ten. Seventeen years later, he became a member of the Honolulu Symphony. Adam earned degrees in music education and tuba performance from the Boston Conservatory, where he was the inaugural recipient of the W.A. Seymour Music Education Scholarship. He completed his masters in performance at Western Michigan University as graduate assistant for the tuba-euphonium studio; in 2004 he won the university's concerto competition. He undertook further study at DePaul University, where he was first runner-up in the School of Music's 2007 concerto competition. He also received first place in the mock orchestra audition and second place in the tuba solo competition at the 2003 Northeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference.
Outside of the United States, Adam has had the opportunity to perform and teach in Japan and China. As a member of the HATHM Trio, Adam has given concerts in both the United States and Japan, premiering new works by Swedish, American, Japanese and Russian composers. He is particularly committed to contemporary music and has commissioned pieces from emerging composers including Lachlan Fife, Karen Olson, Iana Oulianova, Alfred Marra and Rudolf Rojahn. Adam has served on faculty at the New England Music Camp and maintains a strong private studio. His principal teachers include Floyd Cooley (formerly San Francisco Symphony), Andrew Miller (Alabama Symphony), Deanna Swoboda (formerly Dallas Brass), Charles Villarrubia (Rhythm & Brass), Eric Henry (Harrisburg [PA] Symphony), and renowned brass pedagogue Roger Rocco. He has also studied with Gene Pokorny, David Cribb, Gary Ofenloch, Alan Baer, Dean Zirkle, and Samuel Pilafian.