Career
He is on faculty at The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts and musical director at the Center for Spiritual Living Eugene. Growing up in Ellensburg, Washington, he began composing music at an early age. While in middle school, he composed the score for a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by his father, Jeff Treder.
During his tenure as managing editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel newspaper, he helped originate the Metropolitan Rhythm & Blues Revue, an annual fundraiser for Cottage Grove High School.
Treder served as pianist and principal arranger for the Eugene Concert Choir"s 2010 spring pops concert, The British Invasion.