Evan L. SNYDER
COMPOSER // LIBRETTIST // TENOR
Evan L. Snyder
WORKS
FEATURED WORKS
Quatre Chansons Cadiennes
Settings of four Cajun French poems, commissioned by Mary Grace Ellerbee as part of an effort to preserve the language and culture of french-speaking Louisiana. The original recording of the final movement, a setting of Jean Arceneaux's Ouragan III , has been serving that goal well - finding incredible streaming success, with over 100,000 streams on Spotify alone.
2023 / High Voice & Piano, or Medium Voice & Piano


The Casserole
Two college buddies, Kevin and Anna, search through Kevin’s recently deceased grandmother’s kitchen to try to find her special casserole recipe. Kevin has been dreaming of it every night and longs for the chance to taste it one last time. Unable to find the recipe anywhere, the duo turn to a Reddit search for a similar recipe, which inadvertently leads them to a spell for necromancy. When three strange old ladies appear with a fervid desire to break bread with them, and perhaps unleash a little chaos on the mortal realm, things start to get a bit gooey.
2024 / 2 Sopranos, 2 Mezzo-sopranos, Tenor, and Chamber Orchestra

TIFFANY'S SPELLBOOK
An incantation pulls music off the pages of this grimoire, turned song cycle. Tiffany’s Spellbook ushers its audience through a smorgasbord of everyday magicks, each one meant to solve a problem, large or small, of life in the 21st century.
2021 - Ongoing / Soprano & Piano