Adi Snir is a Composer, Improviser and Installation artist currently residing in Tel Aviv. 

His work posits the act of interpretation as the moment of interaction towards which music composition strives, and challenges the performer to engage deeply with both the score and the space in which the music is taking place. A combination of extended instrumental techniques and spatial distribution using live electronics characterizes much of his work, a music which encapsulates the listener within an intimately materializing environment.

Snir’s work has been commissioned and performed by various renowned ensembles including ELISION Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Diotima, Xasax, Meitar, Ictus, Israel Contemporary Players among others, and premiered at places such as Gaudeamus Music Festival (Utrecht), Metropolis New Music festival (Melbourne Recital Centre), Tzilil Meudcan festival (Tel Aviv), Tectonics festival (Tel Aviv), and Disney Hall (Los Angeles). Snir has taken part in residencies at Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and Abbey Royaumont (France).

Snir has been active as an improviser for many years and has performed and recorded with many, including Damon Smith, Birgit Ulher, T.J. Borden, Max Murray, Ofer Bymel, Michael Maierhof, Michael Pisaro, Teodora Stepancic, Ariel Shibolet, Wolfgang Fuchs and many more. 

Snir completed his PhD in music composition at Harvard University under Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. His past composition teachers also include George E. Lewis, Michael Pisaro and Reuben Seroussi.

Currently, Adi Snir teaches composition and contemporary music performance at Tel Aviv University. He is a core member of the collective Ensemble Musica Nova, performing on trumpophone (trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece), saxophones and live electronics. He is also a researcher at Reichman University in the field of cognitive neuroscience working with ambisonics and developing tactile technologies towards enhancing auditory experiences for people with hearing impairments.