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Originally from Newark, Delaware, Prof. Emily Snyder joined The United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC in 2013, was appointed as Adjunct Oboe Faculty at George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú in 2019, and won the principal oboe position in the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 2023. In 2007, Prof. Snyder joined the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and studied at the prestigious Settlement Music School. She performed as principal oboist with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and during their tour of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. In 2008, she was the winner of two concerto competitions and was featured as a soloist performing Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in C Minor with the Kennett Symphony and Newark Symphony Orchestra. In addition to solo performances, she has participated in the Banff Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Boston Â鶹¹ú²ú Tanglewood Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. In 2013, Prof. Emily Snyder received her Bachelor of Music degree in Oboe Performance from Rice Â鶹¹ú²ú studying under Houston Symphony principal oboist, Robert Atherholt. Prior to college, she studied with Jonathan Blumenfeld and Lloyd Shorter. An active freelancer, Prof. Snyder has frequently performed as a guest artist with the Charleston Symphony, Washington Concert Opera, and Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Also an avid chamber musician, she is the oboist in a reed quintet, the Atlantic Reed Consort, and made her Carnegie Hall debut with them in January 2017.

Adjunct Applied Faculty

• Oboe

Degrees

• BM, Rice Â鶹¹ú²ú