Snyder nominated for Grammy Educator Award

August 18, 2016

Assistant Professor of Music, Mark Snyder, has been named a quarterfinalist for the 2017 Grammy Educator award which is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation. Dr. Snyder is one of 290 quarterfinalists from more than 3,300 nominations.

The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. Finalists for the award will be announced in September and the full list of quarterfinalists can be found here.

At the University of Mary Washington, Dr. Snyder teaches Technology for Musicians, the Freshman Seminar Ballades, Beats & Bandcamp, Electronic Music, Audio Recording, Audio Production, Music of Non-Western Cultures, Theory & Skills (1, 2 & 3), MIDI Composition, Great Masterworks, Composition lessons and Orchestration. Since arriving in 2011, he designed the new music curriculum, built the recording studio, the ten seat music production lab and is the creator and director of the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, a three day festival of electronic music and art that brings as many as ninety composers and performers from around the world to campus each year. Out of the courses Mark has taught at UMW, 47 students have had 85 adjudicated/peer reviewed performances of their works at national conferences in the last four years,119 compositions by 58 UMW composers have been performed 347 times at 124 concerts and 29 UMW student musicians have performed those compositions 194 times at 121 concerts. Highlights have included Austin O’Rourke winning the 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Stephen Hennessey being named a finalist for the 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and Becky Brown’s Hold Still being selected by adjudication to be on the Society of Electroacoustic Composers in the United States CD that will be released Naxos, the largest major label for classical music, in 2016.

Below is one of the videos submitted for the Grammy Quarterfinalist application and a list of Dr. Snyder’s students’ composition accomplishments for the 2015/2016 academic year.

2015-2016 Student Composition Performances for 2015-2016 FAAR

Total Performances: 115 in 12 states, Germany and China

Adjudicated National: 22

Adjudicated Regional: 8

International: 8

Key:

A Adjudicated IV Invited IT International N National R Regional L Local

Student’s Name

Title of work (Course and semester it was taught) Award/Accolade

Where it was performed: When it was Performed

Becky Brown

Hold Still (Independent Study: Spring 2015) Voted to be included on SEAMUS CD 26 to be released on major label, Naxos.

Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, Jacksonville University – FL: Sep 11, 2015 A, N
West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R
Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N
Marshall University – WV: Oct 9, 2015 IV
Marietta College – OH: Oct 10,2015 IV
Capital University – OH: Oct 11, 2015 IV
Ohio University – OH: Oct 12, 2015 IV
Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City Community College – KS: Nov 20, 2015 A, N
Society of Electroacoustic Composers in the U.S. National Conference, GSU – GA: Feb 12, 2016 A, N
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV
Society of Composers Inc. Region III Conference, Marshall University – WV: Feb 26, 2016 A, R
Zeitgeist Gallery Nashville, TN: Feb 28,2016 IV
Eyedrum Gallery Atlanta, GA: Feb 29, 2016 IV
Georgia Southern University – GA: Mar 1, 2016 IV
Women Composers Festival of Hartford – CT: Mar 11, 2016 A, N
Ball State University New Music Festival – IN: Mar 18, 2016 A, N
Le Lab Cambridge Gallery Boston, MA: Mar 26, 2016 IV
Rutgers University – NJ: Mar 28, 2016 IV
Brooklyn College International Electroacoustic Music Festival – NY: Mar 31, 2016 IV
Classical Revolution, Richmond, VA: May 15, 2016 IV
Virginia to Beijing, University of International Business and Economics – China Jul 13, 2016 IV, IT

Formaldehyde (MIDI Composition: Spring 2012) Released Jan 21, 2014 Internationally on Nature Boy Explorer, One of These Days

Colonial Tavern, Fredericksburg, VA: Dec 4, 2016 L
Spargelfest, Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 11, 2016 IT
Musikschule Bezirk Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 12, 2016 IT

Underwater (Audio Recording: Spring 2015)

Colonial Tavern, Fredericksburg, VA: Dec 4, 2016 L
Spargelfest, Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 11, 2016 IT
Musikschule Bezirk Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 12, 2016 IT

Austin O’Rourke

Hazel Colored Nebula (Electronic Music: Fall 2014) 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Award Winner

Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, Jacksonville University – FL: Sep 11, 2015 A, N
West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R
Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N
UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV
UMW Philharmonic South of the Border – VA: Apr 22, 2016 L
Virginia to Beijing, University of International Business and Economics – China Jul 13, 2016 IV, IT

Gridlife (Electronic Music: Fall 2014)

UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV

Cloud (Composition: Fall 2015)

UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV

Memory Aberation (Senior Seminar: Spring 2016)

UMW Goolrick Pool for Thesis Presentation: Apr 8, 2016 L
UMW Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium: Apr 22, 2016 L

Mitsubishi ad (Technology for Musicians: Spring 2016)

UMW Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium: Apr 22, 2016 L

Almost but Not (Technology for Musicians: Spring 2016)

Spargelfest, Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 11, 2016 IT
Musikschule Bezirk Schwetzingen Germany: Jun 12, 2016 IT

Stephen Hennessey

Ausgang (Independent Study: Spring 2014)

Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, Jacksonville University – FL: Sep 11, 2015 A, N
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV
Society of Composers Inc. Region III Conference, Marshall University – WV: Feb 26, 2016 A, R

Sorrows Weep Not (Independent Study: Spring 2014) 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Award Finalist

West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R
Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N
Society of Electroacoustic Composers in the U.S. National Conference, GSU – GA: Feb 12, 2016 A, N
UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV
Ball State University New Music Festival – IN: Mar 18, 2016 A, N

Mary Paige Rogers

Powers Music (Composition: Spring 2015)

West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R

Psychotropic (Electronic Music Fall 2014)

Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N
UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV

Con todo mi corazón (Composition Fall 2015)

UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV

Justin Carrico

Fortune Music (Composition Spring 2015)

West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R
UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV

Domesticity (Electronic Music Fall 2015)

Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N

Michael Prime

Invocation Music (Composition Spring 2015)

West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University – WV: Sep 25, 2015 A, R
UMW Composers Concert, Hurley Convergence Center – VA: Feb 19, 2016 L
University of Virginia Composer Exchange – VA: Feb 20, 2016 IV
UMW Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium: Apr 22, 2016 L

John White

Blink (Private Composition Lessons 2015)

Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington – VA: Oct 2, 2015 A, N

Fall 2015 Composition Lesson

Songwriters Showcase: UMW Hurley Convergence Center, Dec 3, 2015

Gwen Levey: Like We Used To, Caving, Blue Eyed Beauty, The Reason Why, Outskirts of the Line and Saturday Morning
Josh Sheats: One of Those Days, Stupid Boys, Outcasts and Wannabes and Drinking Problem
Daniel Shea: Danny performed 3 of his songs. I do not have the title.

Josh Sheats Between Love and Goodbye Lecture Recital: Apr 3, 2016

Between Love and Goodbye, Different Breed, When the Morning Comes, But I’m Not and Drinking Problem.

Fall 2015 Electronic Music Class Concerts

Electroacoustic Barn Dance: Oct 2, 2015

Brie Payne-Werlitz ,Rachel Lee, Flannery Collins, Mya Payne, Joe Cheeks, Everett Rankin, Mona Osmer

Soul Searching Synths UMW Electronic Music Class Concert: Nov 3, 2015

Justin Carrico, Brie Payne-Werlitz ,Rachel Lee, Flannery Collins, Mya Payne, Joe Cheeks, Everett Rankin, Mona Osmer

Things You Will Never Understand UMW Electronic Music Class Concert: December 5, 2015