Steven Snethkamp is an award-winning composer whose music has been performed across the United States and Europe. He composes concert music, electronic music, and rock -- favoring that which is rooted in experimental, ambient, and psychedelic styles. His music can be both technically innovative and profoundly intuitive. It is often dark with strange, mysterious textures, and is punctuated by fleeting moments of vivid light or outbursts of peculiar rhythm. Drawing from disparate influences, personal philosophy, love of nature, improvisation, humor, and humanity, Steven creates a style of music that is uniquely his own.

His music has been performed and recorded by groups such as the Atlanta Chamber Players, Fifth House Ensemble, Third Angle Ensemble, the Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Loudoun Symphony. Steven has a particular fondness for the immersive nature of electronic music, recorded music, and video works. His computer music has been programmed at SEAMUS, ICMC, Electronic Music Midwest, Sacramento State Festival of New American Music, Studio 300 Festival, Electronic Music from the Big 10, the Luigi Russolo Competition, and more.

In addition to his concert music, Steven has a substantial history and ongoing involvement with rock music. He plays guitar, bass, synthesizer, drum, and percussion. He loves music that is both vintage and modern, raw and pristine. His unique style of songwriting and arranging can be heard on the album “Snethkamp and Litchfield - Broadcasting from the One and Only Pan-Dimensional Chronotransmitter.”

While Steven has since ventured away from academia, he still holds a deep love for teaching. He has worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in computer music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he also served as an Associate Instructor for the composition department. He has previously taught counterpoint, composition, notation, and computer music.  He holds degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder (BM) and Indiana University (MM, DM). His composition instructors have included Sven-David Sandström, David Dzubay, Don Freund, Claude Baker, Per Mårtensson, P.Q. Phan, Daniel Kellogg, Andrew May, and Richard Toensing. He has also studied computer music and multimedia work with Jeffery Hass and Alicyn Warren.