Nancy Snider

Director, Music Program
Department of Performing Arts

• Additional Positions at AU

  Music Practitioner in Residence, Cello
  Director, AU Chamber Players (chamber music ensembles)
  Director, Music Program; Applied Music Program
  
• Cellist Nancy Jo Snider is the music program director at American University and a cello instructor in the applied music program. An active performer and teacher in the Washington, DC area, she is a member of the Baltimore Opera Orchestra and Opera Lafayette and also performs regularly in a variety of chamber and period instrument ensembles.
  
  Ms. Snider received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year in an Adjunct Appointment Award from American University in 2005 and was appointed director of the music program in September 2006.
  
  University sponsored outreach efforts have concentrated on the critical role of the arts (music in particular) in shaping a healthy society.
  
  Ms. Snider's teaching philosophy is grounded in the premise that if good basic habits are in place her students will have a solid and reliable foundation upon which to build. It is her goal to successfully bring them to their appropriate next step in a manner that is both challenging and supportive.

• Degrees

  BM, Cello Performance, The Catholic University of America (cum laude)
  L’Ecole Superior, Conservatoire Europeen de Musique de Paris (student of Mark Drobinsky)