Jeffrey Snider

Jeffrey Snider is a native of Buffalo, New York, and studied at both Indiana University and the Univesity of North Texas. Recent operatic roles include Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca with The American Center for Puccini Studies, the Count di Luna in Verdi’s Il Trovatore in El Paso, Texas, Germont in La Traviata with the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Gideon March in Adamo’s Little Women with the Fort Worth Opera. In May of 2005 he placed second in Opera New York’s inaugural "Chester Ludgin American Verdi Baritone Competition", singing before a panel that included opera stars Placido Domingo, James Morris, and Regina Resnick.

Recent concert performances include Handel’s Messiah with the Fort Myers (Florida) Symphonic Mastersingers, Hodie by Vaughan Williams with the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Valley Symphony Orchestra in McAllen, Texas.

He is the baritone soloist on the Klavier recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana with the University of North Texas Wind Symphony and Grand Chorus under the direction of Eugene Corporon. Of this performance J. F. Weber of Fanfare magazine writes, "this is one of the finest…male soloists I have ever heard in this work". He is on the voice faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music.