Pieter Snapper

Who is Pieter Snapper?

Pieter Snapper is a mastering engineer, producer, and composer of contemporary classical and electronic music, living in Istanbul, Turkey. His works have been played in the U.S., Europe, and Asia by groups such as KammarensembleN in Stockholm, and Klangforum in Vienna. He has received awards from BMI, ASCAP, UC Berkeley, the Union League Foundation, and commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, Yamaha Corporation of America, the ensemble Eighth Blackbird, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

His principal composition teachers included Andrew Imbrie and Edwin Dugger at the University of California, Berkeley, and Ralph Shapey and Howard Sandroff at the University of Chicago. In addition to composing, he has performed and toured extensively as a player of live and interactive computer music. His music is available on the Gasparo record label.

After teaching composition and electronic music at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, in 1999 Snapper moved to Istanbul to establish the composition and sound engineering programs at the Istanbul Technical University Center for Advanced Studies in Music. He also founded and developed the MIAM Studios in Turkey. In 2003 he co-organized an international conference at ITU on spectral music, the first of its kind, culminating in an edited volume with two audio CDs, published in 2008.