The compositions of David Jason Snow have been performed in concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the New Juilliard Ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the American Brass Quintet at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Harvard Wind Ensemble in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Yale University Band in New Haven, Connecticut, and other artists and ensembles in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Snow has been the recipient of composer fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the ASCAP Foundation, and Meet the Composer. A recipient of composition awards from BMI, the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, Musician magazine, and Keyboard magazine, he has been an artist resident at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs and the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. He holds degrees in music composition from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music where his principle teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, and Jacob Druckman.