Artist Profiles

Timothy Snyder, Artistic Director

Timothy Snyder, Artistic Director

Mr. Snyder begins his seventh season with the Boulder Chorale in 2007, having formerly served on the faculties of Connecticut College and the Yale School of Music. During recent seasons he has led the Chorale to acclaimed performances of Fauré, Mozart, Bach, Handel, and Beethoven with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra–collaborations hailed as "a series of artistic triumphs" by the Boulder Camera. Choruses under his direction have toured to most major cities of the United States, and internationally to Norway, France, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Italy, and the People's Republic of China. Mr. Snyder's choral works are performed and recorded by some of the nation's leading choirs, have earned recognition in competitions sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association, the Composer's Guild, and Ithaca College, and are published by Hinshaw Music, Shawnee Press, Lawson-Gould, and Santa Barbara Music. Mr. Snyder is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator of choruses, and has directed church music programs in Connecticut and Colorado. He is Director of Worship, Music, and Outreach at Atonement Lutheran Church in Boulder and is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado, where he is a student of Joan Conlon and Lawrence Kaptein.