Kurt Snyder

Kurt Snyder has a varied and extensive background in music performance and pedagogy.
Mr. Snyder has been passing that knowledge on, formerly as  professor of horn at the University of Nevada and the California Institute of the Arts, and currently as the horn instructor for Idyllwild Arts. His students have gone on to such distinguished schools as Curtis, Eastman, USC,  Oberlin, Manhattan and the Juilliard School.

Mr. Snyder has performed on more than five hundred motion pictures and television broadcasts with major film composers including Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Elmer Bernstein,  Randy Newman, Alan Sylvestri, Danny Elfman and James Horner.

Mr. Snyder has toured and recorded extensively as a chamber musician with the New World Brass Quintet, the Sierra Wind Quintet and the Idyllwild Trio.