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PROGRAM NOTES
Provided by Jeffrey Snedeker
It is our pleasure to provide you with extensive “Program Notes” for
each of the Classical Concerts. It is our hope that by providing you
with the historical background and environment at the time these great
pieces of music were composed that it will enhance your appreciation
of the performance.
Jeffrey Snedeker has been on the music faculty at Central Washington
University in Ellensburg, Washington since 1991. A Board of Trustees
Distinguished University Professor at CWU, his current teaching duties
include horn, music history, and directing the CWU Horn Ensemble. A
founding member of the Northwest Horn Society, Jeff is a Past President
of the International Horn Society and has received several awards for
teaching, research, and service, including the national Artist Award from
the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society, and the Washington state Timm
Ormsby Award for Faculty Citizenship. In 2018, Jeff was selected for
the Washington Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. He has also
been selected as the Higher Education Music Educator of the Year by
the WMEA and received the 2020 IHS Service Medal of Honor. Jeff has
been a featured artist, clinician, lecturer, and host of regional, national,
and international conferences on six continents and is recognized as a
leading performer and scholar of the horn, especially solo repertoire,
jazz, and historical performance. He has published over 50 articles on
a variety of musical topics, including entries in The Encyclopaedia of
Popular Music, journals of the International Horn Society, Historic Brass
Society, American Musical Instrument Society, Music Educators Journal,
Jazz Education in Research and Practice, VOICE Magazine, Composition
Today, and the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians. He recently completed two books, one on horn teaching
at the Paris Conservatoire 1792-1903 (published by Routledge) and a
commemorative volume celebrating the 50th anniversary of the IHS.
He has released five solo recordings featuring the natural horn and the
horn in jazz settings. Jeff has been Principal Horn of the Yakima (WA)
Symphony Orchestra since 1992. He lives in Ellensburg with his extremely
patient wife and two talented sons.
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