Conductor, Pianist, Arranger
Murray Snyder
9980 Bustleton Av H21
Philadelphia, PA 19115
(215)-676-1223
Shows and Tours
2002-3, Assistant Music Director/Pianist and Synthesizer Programmer
Grease; Conductor, James Baldwin; Producer, Wolfgang Bocksch; Contractor, Bill Meade
2002, Assistant Music Director/Pianist and Synthesizer Programmer
Evita (sound track availiable of this production); Conductor, Janice Aubrey; Producer, Wolfgang Bocksch; Contractor, Bill Meade
2002 Music Director/Conductor
A Chorus Line; Producer, Wolfgang Bocksch; Director, Troy Garza
2001 Assistant Conductor/Pianist and Synthesizer Programming
A Chorus Line; Producer, Nick Manos; Conductor, Fran Liebergall; Director, Bayork Lee
99 to 01 Piano/Keyboard 1
Ragtime; Broadway National Tour; Conductor, Lynn Crigler; Contractor, John Monaco; SFX, Inc.
99 Assistant Conductor and Keyboards/Synthesizers
Smokey Joes, Harrah's Casino Hotel, NJ.
99 Assistant Conductor and Pianist/Keyboards
A Chorus Line; Gateway Candlewood International (tour); Producer, John Hodge; Music Director/Conductor, Fran Liebergall; Singapore, Taipei and Taiwan
98 Keyboards/Synthesizers
Pippin; Music Director, Fran Liebergall; Contractor Mike Natale; Harrah's Casino Hotel, NJ
98 Music Director/Conductor
Blood Brothers; Produced by Bernard Havard Directed by Bob Carlton; Walnut Street Theatre, PA
97 Assistant Music Director, Assistant Conductor
The Goodbye Girl; Starring Donna McKechnie Produced by Bernard Havard; Music Director, Sherman Frank; Director, Bruce Lumpkin; Choreographer, Richard Stafford; Walnut Street Theatre, PA
96 Keyboards and Music Arts Technologies Synthesizer
Funny Girl; Starring Deborah Gibson; Broadway National Tour; Mini Mac Inc., Carmel, IN; Conductor, Sheilah Walker
94 to 96 Assistant Conductor and Keyboards
Fiddler on the Roof; Starring Theodore Bikel; Broadway National Tour; Mini Mac Inc., Carmel, IN; Conductor, Sheilah Walker; Director, Sammy Dallas Bayes
92 to 94 Assistant Conductor and Pianist/Keyboards
A Chorus Line; Robert Young Associates; Broadway National Tour; Conductor, Joe Klein; Director, Baayyork Lee
94 Music Director
A Chorus Line; National Tour; Producer, Gordon Crow; Director, Lois Englund
93 Music Director
A Chorus Line; Produced by Neil Rosen and Pat Paulsen; Director, Robert Longbottom; Cherry County Playhouse
93 Music Director
A Chorus Line; Produced by Allen Corwell; Director, Gordon Dean Reinhart; Choreographer, Steven Smeltzer
87 to 92 Music Director/Pianist/Arranger
Holland America Line Cruise Ships
Assistant Conductor and Keyboards
Walt Disney's World on Ice; Produced by Irvin and Kenneth Feld; National tour; Conductor, Wade Benson
Additional shows
Candide, Let My People Come, Guys and Dolls, Lil' Mary Sunshine, and Lil' Abner
Orchestrator/Arranger
Television Jingles (NBC) and recording. Orchestrated and have re-orchestrated numbers in shows when necessary. Arranged music for Allen and Rossi, Charo and many other acts.
Synthesizers
Programming and playing synthesizers including recording sessions, record dates, and playing Music Arts Technology "prepared" synthesizers.
Pianist
Classically trained (major competitions), versed in jazz (including improvisation), rock and other styles of music.
Education
Bachelor of Music (classical piano performance with Clement Petrillo), Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1979 Private Orchestration and Arranging studies with Frank Mann Private Jazz Piano and Arranging studies with Gerald Price
Some outstanding people I had the honor of working with include:
Marni Nixon, Rita Moreno, Sergio Franchi, Patti Page, Robert Shields, John Pertwee, Marty Allen, Steve Rossi, Theodore Bikel, Jesse James, Jill Slyter, Deborah Gibson, Donna McKechnie, Jack Imel, and Pamela Blake
References Available
For references, please contact any conductors listed here as well as local contractors,
Brad Briscoe (Drums, on A Chorus Line),
Rich Keitel (Keyboard 2, on Ragtime),
Jim Moore (Assistant Conductor on Ragtime).
More available on request.
