Currently in post on a feature musical directed by Oscar nominee Carlos Estrada & starring Camila Mendes, John W. Snyder is a composer, pianist, arranger, conductor, and orchestrator whose work spans film, television, music, advertising, theme parks, and live performance. His credits include the critically acclaimed film Summertime, the TV series The Mayor and High & Mighty, the viral music short film Kangaroo Court, documentaries, the Sony Movies streaming logo, and piano arrangements for Encanto on Disney’s Spotify.

Throughout his career, Snyder has worked with clients including Disney, Sony, ABC, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., Capitol Records, Sub Pop, and long-time collaborator director Carlos Estrada, as well as brands such as Honda, CNN (Emmy-nominated), Shiseido (Hunter Schafer), Samsung, Amazon, and Lexus.

Beyond film and advertising, he also works with recording artists such as Clipping (feat. Daveed Diggs), Watsky, and soprano Holly Sedillos. He contributed & produced arrangements for Clipping’s Splendor & Misery, which was nominated for a Hugo Award, and conducted his orchestral arrangements for Watsky’s x Infinity tour.

Early in his career, Snyder received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer honor and UCLA’s Henry Mancini Award, and was inducted into the prestigious Wheaton Scholastic Society. His first Hollywood job came in 2009, when he worked as a piano hand double for the remake of Fame. During the shoot, Kelsey Grammer happened to end up behind him in a food line and asked, “How are you doing, young man?” Starstruck, Snyder has no memory of what happened after that.