A Thousand Oaks Reads program titled “In Conversation with Peter Snyder” will take place at 7 p.m. Wed., Oct. 21 at the Grant Brimhall/Thousand Oaks Library, 1401 E. Janss Road. 

Professional musician Peter Snyder, most recently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will discuss his musical career and relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, the subject of “The Soloist” by Steve Lopez.

Snyder made his first solo appearance with an orchestra at age 13, playing the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Peter Meremblum Junior Symphony. He became principal cellist with the orchestra soon after. 

He graduated from Cal-Arts with a degree in both music and art. Snyder made his first solo recital debut in Western Europe in 1966.

After doing freelance work with symphonies and movie studios, he was offered an assistant professorship at Wichita State University in 1967. At the university he taught cello, chamber music and string methods. He was also cellist in residence and principal cellist of the Wichita Symphony. 

Snyder has performed with the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, the Pittsburg Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1979, he founded the Tonart Piano Trio.

The program is free and open to the public, courtesy of the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library. Guests may bring nonperishable food and toiletry items to the library for donation to the Manna food bank. 

For more information, call (805) 449-2660 or visit www .thousandoaksreads.org.