Paul Snyder. Photo source: Oregon Symphony.
In Tuesday’s (2/24) Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon), Christen McCurdy writes, “Paul Snyder stepped into the CEO role at the Oregon Symphony last summer after a five-year stint at the Tillamook County Creamery Association. For most of his career, Snyder worked in hospitality … working his way up through Marriott and Intercontinental Hotels Group. But he’s also always volunteered for arts organizations, serving on the boards of the Atlanta Opera, the Atlanta Symphony and Portland Opera—and the Oregon Symphony…. Snyder: Our audiences are back and have now exceeded pre-pandemic levels…. We also just launched our 2026–27 subscription season, and we’ve had the highest number of subscription sales in the first day and in the first week than we ever have…. I think [it’s due to] the fantastic art we put on the stage—whether it’s our incredibly talented and hardworking musicians who are just a spectacular symphony orchestra, who just perform unbelievably under our music director David Danzmayr. On top of our classical music, we’ve also got a really great slate of popular programming … We’re premiering a piece [‘These Righteous Paths’] by the brilliant composer Jessie Montgomery; this is a co-commission of ours and will be a West Coast premiere.”
