Richard Snider, double bass, has been a jazz/classical performer, conductor, and music educator in New Mexico for the last thirty-six years.  He retired from the Santa Fe Public Schools after twenty-eight years of teaching band, jazz band, choir, guitar, piano, and art history.  Currently, he is the band director at St. Michael’s High School as well as the conductor of SF Youth Symphony’s Philharmonia String Orchestra.  He has conducted local productions of Cabaret, Camelot, Music Man, Pippin, and Godspell.  He plays with several jazz groups in New Mexico and has performed with Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, Southwest Jazz Orchestra, National Dance Institute, John Rangel, Brian Bennett, Arlen Asher, Jerry Van Dyke, Paul Horn, Ritchie Cole, Bobby McFerrin, Mose Allison, Bobby Shew, and Ali Ryerson.