Colin Thomson: Do More

John W. Snyder is an active composer and pianist in Los Angeles. He has received numerous academic and composition honors, including induction into the Wheaton Scholastic Society, UCLA’s Henry Mancini Award, and an honor by the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. He has also scored numerous films, documentaries, and commercials for clients such as Capitol Records, Chevy, VW, the Affordable Care Act, Disney, Lenovo, and many others. Snyder holds degrees from Wheaton College, IL (B.M., summa cum laude) and UCLA (M.M.). Key Take Aways: Know Yourself - What you can handle and what you cannot However difficult you think the music industry will be, multiply it by 10 In order to find business - a lot of times your networking must be outside of your comfortable circle of musicians At the end of the day, you gotta deliver In Hollywood there is only one rule: You can't miss deadlines No matter how small the opportunity, when you get it, you've got to deliver. Even if it's not a project that you're super excited