Ernesto Snajer was born in Paternal, in the city of Buenos Aires, on April 6, 1968.
 
Although there was no musical history in the family, his parents encouraged him to take guitar and piano lessons from an early age.
His first teacher was a rock musician, Jorge Garacotche, and the music he was most interested in was the Beatles.

At the age of 15, he formed a guitar duo with Julián Hasse, with whom he performed songs by Gismonti, Piazzolla, Villalobos, Spinetta and Serú Girán. During the same period, he wrote his first compositions.
While attending secondary school, he studied music in parallel. His principal teachers were: Francisco Rivero (jazz and improvisation), Svetan Szavbev (classical guitar) and Martha Bongiorno (piano). 

In 1985, he met the pianist Hernán Lugano. Together they formed the Argentine music group “Semblanza”, initially with Quique Condomí on violin, and later with Gustavo Toker on bandoneon. With Semblanza he recorded two discs in Europe, won the 1988 Pre-Cosquin Festival in the instrumental category, as well as the 1988 Buenos Aires Jazz Fusion Contest, and completed five European tours, performing in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Germany, Poland, Finland, Denmark and Belgium.
Highlights: Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Helsinki Sea Jazz Festival (supporting Stan Getz), Vredenburgh Theatre in Holland, La Cova del Drac (Barcelona),  Nefertiti (Gothenburg), Fashing (Stockholm), Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Montmartre (Copenhagen).

In 1987 he had entered the Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda, where he took classes in tango with Aníbal Arias and in jazz with Armando Alonso, but he was not able to finish his studies, since touring with Semblanza meant that he was spending more of the year in Europe than in Argentina.
In spite of this, when he was not travelling he found time to study harmony and counterpoint with Laura Baade, and orchestration with Gabriel Senanes.
 
In 1991, he went to live in Copenhagen for a year, at the invitation of Palle Windfeldt, the Danish guitarist with whom he formed “Guitarreros”. They have been playing together as a duo for the last 20 years and have performed in Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and  Brazil.

From 1993 to 1995, he accompanied Pedro Aznar in the shows “Tributo a Gardel”, “Juntos por Troilo” and “Homenaje a Piazzolla”.   
He collaborated on Jairo’s CD “Cielos” (produced by Pedro), recording a duet with the Brazilian cellist Jaques Morelembaum.

In July 1994, following an audition, he joined Lito Vitale’s group “Los Argentinos” along with Javier Malosetti, Marcelo Novati and Manuel Miranda. Between then and 1997, he recorded two CDs with the band and played in Spain, Germany, Panama, Uruguay, Chile and throughout Argentina. He participated in the recordings for the programme “Ese amigo del Alma”, and the presentation tour of “El Grito Sagrado”, which concluded at the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, accompanying artists including León Gieco, David Lebón, Alejandro Lerner, Celeste Carballo, Julia Zenko, Sandra Mihanovich, Silvina Garré, Victor Heredia, Fabiana Cantilo, Abel Pintos, Teresa Parodi.

Also with Lito Vitale, he performed at the opening ceremony of the 1995 Pan American Games (accompanying Julio Bocca  and Pedro Aznar at the Mar del Plata Stadium), and the 2001 Under-20 World Cup held in Argentina (Vélez Sarsfield Stadium), as well as in the worldwide broadcast of “Millennium Day”, a performance recorded at the Perito Moreno Glacier.

He participated as a guitarist on the re-release of “Mujeres Argentinas”, by Ariel Ramírez and Patricia Sosa.

In 1998, after they had handed him a disc at a concert, the maestro Egberto Gismonti  produced a CD by Guitarreros for his label Carmo/ECM.

Since 1999, he has led his own formations. So far he has released 5 discs as  a leader. His group members have included: Pipi Piazzolla, Guillermo Romero, Nicolás Gurschberg, Oscar Giunta, Guillermo Delgado and Víctor Carrión.

Between 2001 and 2005 he was part of a trio with Verónica Condomí and the percussionist Facundo Guevara, with whom he recorded two CDs (“Cielo arriba”, short listed for the Premio Gardel and “De los tres”).  They made two tours of Italy and performed at the ND Ateneo and Alvear Theatre in Buenos Aires, the Festival de Músicos de San Martín de los Andes, the Festival de Músicos de Rosario.

In 2003 he directed the teaching project “Argentine Music Week” for the Copenhagen Rhythmical Conservatory.  The teaching staff, who travelled over, was made up of: Aníbal Arias and Osvaldo Montes, Negro Aguirre, Fernando Suárez Paz, Ricardo Lew, Nicolás Ledesma, Omar Moreno Palacios, Verónica Condomí, Facundo Guevara, Alejandro Devries and Guido Martínez.
 
In 2004, for the purpose of presenting the CD Toque Argentino, he undertook a 15-concert tour of Argentina.

In 2006, he was invited along with the Catalan Raúl Fernández to direct the bi-national project “Immigrasons”, commissioned by the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic (Catlunya) and the Secretaría de Música de Buenos Aires.  

Since  2006 he has been the director of the discographic series “Toque Argentino”  for the label MDR records. The collection includes CDs by Juan Quintero and Edgardo Cardozo, Cecilia Zabala,  Willy González, César Franov, Ale Devries and Verónica Condomí.    

Every season since 2007, he has presented the “Snajer trio con Invitados Especiales” along with bassist Guido Martínez and drummer Diego Alejandro.
This cycle of concerts at VACA PROFANA (Buenos Aires) has already enjoyed the participation of: Liliana Herrero, Lito Vitale, Javier Malosetti, Franco Luciani, Negro Aguirre, Juan Quintero, Verónica Condomí, Horacio Fontova, Mariana Baraj, Lisandro Aristimuño and Juan Carlos Baglietto, Edgardo Cardozo.

As guest guitarist, he has recorded and played alongside artists with very different styles, including most notably: Julieta Venegas, Alejandro Lerner and León Gieco, Kepa Junquera, Pedro Aznar, Juan Cruz Urquiza,  Kim Kristensen, Hans Ulrik,  Luciano Pereyra, Soledad, Miranda, Adriana Varela,  Liliana Vitale, Raly Barrionuevo, Chango Farías Gómez, Peteco Carabajal, Axel, Patricia Sosa, Jorge Cumbo, grupo Bevano Est, Lito Epumer and Armando Alonso, La Bomba de Tiempo, Karamelo Santo, Roxana Amed, Olga Román, Pearson (Super Ratones), Emme, Cristóbal Repetto. 

The highlights of his work as a producer include the records “Igual a mi corazón” (Liliana Herrero), “Remedio pal alma” (Verónica Condomí, shortlisted for the Premio Gardel) “Immigrasons”, (Immigrasons), “Andanzas cotidianas” (Alejandro Devries)
“Yusuy”  (Alejandro Franov).

He composed the original scores for:
Cinema: “Fotos del alma” (Diego Musiak).
Theatre: “Hansel y Gretel” (C. C. Gral. San Martín),  “Emma” (Cecilia Hopkins).
Radio: “La vuelta” (María O’Donnell, Radio Continental).
TV: The National Literacy Programme “Programa Nacional de Alfabetización” (directed by Eduardo Mignogna),
 Hechizada, Telefé Cortos (2005 and 2006), Aquí no hay quien viva, Historias del crimen, Planeta Disney.