Pieter A. Snapper

Title: How We Fall . . . 
Commission: 1996
Completed: 1997
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, clarinet in A, piano, violin, and cello
Premiere Location: Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Premiere Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird
Notes:

Pieter Snapper is an American-born composer, producer, and audio engineer who has lived in Istanbul since 1999 when he helped found the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at Istanbul Technical University. Previously he taught in both the composition and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) departments at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His music has received awards from BMI, ASCAP, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and the Union League Arts Foundation, and has been performed in 20 countries by ensembles such as eighth blackbird, KammerensemblN (Stockholm), and Klangforum Wien. He is a frequent performer of his own live electroacoustic works, the more club-oriented pieces under the Soqrmom moniker. 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. He currently divides his time between composing, audio engineering, teaching, and spending time with his wife, composer Esra Kınıklı Snapper, and their daughter Neva.