Ross Snyder biography

A life-long chamber musician, Ross Snyder is the founding first violinist of the award-winning Tesla Quartet. With the quartet he has toured across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Brazil, China and South Korea. He has also won top prizes at the Banff, London, and Haydn International String Quartet Competitions. A fellow of the 2007 and 2011 Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, he has also appeared as a guest artist at the Strings Music Festival in Colorado and the Renova Music Festival in Pennsylvania. A native of Pittsburgh, Ross received his earliest chamber music training from members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and later studied with world-renowned ensembles including the Alban Berg, Borromeo, Brentano, Guarneri, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Takács, and Tokyo string quartets.

A versatile performer, Ross has served as principal violinist with the Boulder Bach Festival and has performed with the selfconducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry and Brooklyn-based ensemble The Knights. From 2013 to 2018 he was a tenured member of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and has also held a position with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. He spent the summer of 2008 serving as an assistant concertmaster of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland and also participated in the VFO’s 2008 European tour to Milan, Luzern, Berlin, and Madrid. During his studies at Juilliard he served as one of the leaders of the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra. Ross holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where the Tesla Quartet held the Graduate String Quartet Fellowship from 2009-2012. He also received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston.