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Charles “Skip” Snead serves as Director of the School of Music and Professor of Horn at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, with appearances in Egypt, Romania, the United Kingdom, and Cuba, in addition to regional horn workshops and International Horn Society Summer Symposiums. He has been a featured artist with ensembles including the Alexandria Symphony in Alexandria, Egypt; the State Orchestra of Romania; the British Horn Society; the Monroe Symphony; the Macon Symphony; the Tuscaloosa Symphony; and Shreveport Summer Music Festival Orchestras. As an orchestral performer, Skip played six seasons with the Jacksonville Symphony, and with a wide range of other orchestras throughout the Southeastern United States.

In addition to the above, Skip was a founding member of the internationally-recognized TransAtlantic Horn Quartet (TAHQ) with colleagues, Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, and David Ohanian. The TAHQ performed throughout the United States and Europe as a featured ensemble at events and venues including the Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh, England, the Royal Wigmore Hall in London, the British Horn Society Festival, and International Horn Society Summer Symposiums. Skip has recorded with the TransAtlantic Horn Quartet, the Classic Brass, the Kentuckiana Brass and Percussion Ensemble, and has solo recordings issued by Centaur Records, Albany Records and MSR Classics.

In addition to his work as a performer, Skip is internationally recognized as a teacher and clinician. He has given master classes throughout the United States and Europe, serves on the Executive Board of the International Horn Competition of America, and has served a five-year term on the Center for the International Exchange of Scholars for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Peer Review Committee. He was given the “Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching” by Murray State University (1988), and the “Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award” by The University of Alabama (2005).

His principal teachers include Merwin Crisman, William Capps, Karen Thornton, and John Dressler. He was also heavily influenced by additional studies with Phillip Farkas and Dale Clevenger.

His principal teachers have included Merwin Crisman, Karen Thornton, and John Dressler, with additional studies with Dale Clevenger, Philip Farkas, and William Capps.