Philip Snyder (they/he) is an educator, flutist-composer, and administrator currently working as Instructor of Flute at the University of Mississippi and an Associate Producer at Spoleto Festival USA. Philip is interested in the experimental pursuit of music performance as a process, seeking to find agency within the entire musical event and treat each performance as an act of discovery.

Philip is a founding member of the North Carolina contemporary performance ensemble, earspace, one half of the experimental duo if.else, and a founding member of the flute quartet Eudaimonia.

A dedicated performer of new works, Philip has premiered music by composers including Camila Agosto, D. Edward Davis, Richard Drehoff Jr., George Fetner, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Tim Feeney, David Kirkland Garner, and others.

Philip appears in recordings including Ephemeral Constructions, an Edition Wandelweiser Records release of the music of Jürg Frey, as well as self-released albums titled EP, a collection of improvisatory music for flute and electronics, and around-past-away, an album of field recordings exploring sonic motion through natural settings.

Philip holds DMA and MM degrees in Flute Performance from the University of South Carolina where they studied with Jennifer Parker-Harley. He received a BM degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while studying with Brooks de Wetter-Smith. Philip is an alumni of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Ensemble Evolution with the International Contemporary Ensemble, nief-norf Summer Festival, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and others. They are a past winner of the Flute Society of Kentucky Young Artist Competition, the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition, and a finalist for many other awards.

A passionate arts administrator, Philip is an Associate Producer at Spoleto Festival USA and Competition Coordinator for the South Carolina Flute Society. Philip has worked in the past for Manhattan School of Music, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, The Savvy Musician, the University of South Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among others.