A highly skilled and winsome leader with over 30 years of experience in choral music. Her impressive accomplishments and leadership promise continued growth for our youth choirs. Nicole Snodgrass earned her M.M. in Choral Conducting from Messiah University and B.S. in Music Education from West Chester University. She has been the choral director at Ursinus College since August 2022. In 2023, Nicole Snodgrass was awarded the Ursinus College Inclusion & Equity Faculty Award. Her Ursinus College choirs have performed at LOVE Park in Philadelphia, Radio City Music Hall in NYC, historic St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, and performed “The National Anthem” at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

 

From 1999 to 2024, Nicole Snodgrass was the choral director at Cherokee High School in Marlton, New Jersey. Her choirs from Cherokee High School performed at The White House, Carnegie Hall, with the band Foreigner, and have toured England, Ireland, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, New Orleans, and Charleston, South Carolina.

 

Nicole Snodgrass served as choral director for the 2023 American Music Abroad Voices Tour and presented concerts in Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, and France. In 2020, she conducted the New Jersey All-State Treble Chorus and was the recipient of the 2020 NJMEA New Jersey Master Music Teacher Award. She is a two-time quarterfinalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award and was named one of Suburban Family Magazine’s “Outstanding Teachers.”

 

In addition to teaching, Nicole Snodgrass has sung professionally for more than 30 years, serving as soprano soloist at historic Old Pine Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia since 1996. She has been a featured soloist with the Brandywine Valley Chorale, Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Kelso North Parish Church in Scotland, and has performed choral works with the Kennett Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet, and Delaware Symphony Orchestra.