Don "The Tonmeister" Snyder started his professional music
career at the age of 10 singing in the renowned American Boys Choir of
Princeton, New Jersey. By college, Don had recorded a live record album
at Disneyland, and at age 19, he went from a salary of $270 a week to $5,000
a week at a major Las Vegas hotel. Don joined the engineering staff at
the legendary Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood where he engineered
more than 50 record albums in his first year. As Chief Engineer with Gold
Star, Don engineered or produced countless records, TV specials, film scores,
jingles, and commercials. He has worked with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie
Wonder, Tony Bennett, Duke Ellington, Ringo Starr, Bo Diddley, Rosemary
Clooney, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bonnie Pointer, Jackie DeShannon,
Stan Freeberg, and many others. President of the independent label Tonmeister
Records, one of Don's more recent projects was producing a new CD from
Celtic harper Sylvia Woods.
