Nancy Jo Snider

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Bachelor of Music (Performance, cum laude), 1981, The Catholic University of America

Cellist Nancy Jo Snider is an active performer and teacher in the Washington, DC area. She is a member of the Baltimore Opera Orchestra and performs regularly in a variety of chamber and period instrument ensembles. Ms. Snider was appointed to the faculty of George Washington University in 1997 and also serves on the faculties of the Washington Conservatory, the Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts and American University where she holds the position of “Musician in Residence”. Ms. Snider received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year in an Adjunct Appointment Award from American University in 2005.

A lifelong passion for the music of Bach has led Ms. Snider to more concentrated study of the music of the Baroque and, consequently, to performing with period instruments. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant by the National Endowment of the Arts through the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities to pursue study of the baroque ‘cello. She has performed on baroque ‘cello with the Washington Bach Consort, Modern Musick, The Violins of Lafayette/Opera Lafayette and has participated in the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory. Ms. Snider is the proud owner of an English cello from 1785 attributed to Lockey Hill which she plays for these performances.

Ms. Snider can be heard with Opera Lafayette on the critically acclaimed recording of Gluck’s “Orphée et Euridice” which was released last year. Upcoming recordings with Opera Lafayette include Sacchini’s “Oedipe à Colone” and Rameau “Airs and Dances” with the renowned hautre-contre Jean-Paul Foorchécourt.