Compositions by Sarah Kirkland Snider
About Sarah Kirkland Snider
Recently dubbed “a composer with an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works,” (Time Out New York), Sarah Kirkland Snider strives to write music of direct expression and dramatic narrative. Her music has been performed by artists and ensembles from around the world including Signal, Colin Currie, Dinosaur Annex, Hebrides Ensemble, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Knights, Psappha, Newspeak, Eclipse Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, and many others, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, Merkin Hall, the Colorado Music Festival, the Bang On a Can Summer Festival, the MATA Festival, June in Buffalo, the Look & Listen Festival, and the Keys to the Future Contemporary Piano Music Festival to New York multimedia art cabarets such as (le) Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, The Red Bull Theater, Theater for the New City, and many others. Recent commissions have come from the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, the J. Paul Getty Center, Dinosaur Annex, the NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, Third Coast Percussion, and janus, among others. 2010 will see the release of her debut album, Penelope, a collection of songs performed by Shara Worden and Signal, on New Amsterdam Records. Sarah has an M.M. and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She is Co-Director, along with William Brittelle and Judd Greenstein, of New Amsterdam Records.
