NAVE Voices Awarded Honorable Mention for the AMERICAN PRIZE in Community College Division - September 2022
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Dr. Sneed has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, choral methods and literature, diction, voice and piano. In 2024 she became a professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She conducts two choirs and teaches choral music education and conducting. From 2013-2024, she was Professor of Music at McLennan Community College. She conducted three choirs, taught Music History 1 and 2, Music Appreciation, Conducting, Sightreading, and accompanied faculty and staff, both vocal and instrumental. She led the MCC Choirs on two European tours during her eleven years. Both Southwestern and MCC are Hispanic-serving institutions. Her collegiate teaching experience includes preparing students to be public school choral directors, church choir directors, and vocalists.
Dr. Sneed has been a clinician for Honor Choirs and Workshops in several states, as well as serving as an adjudicator and presenter for national organizations in the area of scholarship and conducting. In 2011 she conducted and presented at the National American Choral Director's Conference in Chicago. She earned the BME from Furman University, the MM from Southern Methodist, and the DMA from Michigan State University. She has been Secretary for the National Collegiate Choral Organization, SWACDA R&S Chair for Colleges and Universities, and held other offices in ACDA. Currently, she is serving as Treasurer for the College Music Society.
***Sneed created NAVE Voices in 2012 as a way of bringing together former singers who wanted to continue their high level of choral performance from their university years. Conducting this choir has been an amazing journey which now has culminated in, not one, but two invitations to Carnegie Hall. Concurrent with her conducting duties with NAVE, Sneed was, for two years, the Director of Choirs at Choctaw High School in Oklahoma, and Vocal Coordinator for the Choctaw-Nicoma Park School District.
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Other Highlights
Dr. Sneed has been a clinician for Honor Choirs and Workshops in several states, as well as serving as an adjudicator and presenter for national organizations in the area of scholarship and conducting. In 2011 she conducted and presented at the National American Choral Director's Conference in Chicago. She earned the BME from Furman University, the MM from Southern Methodist, and the DMA from Michigan State University. She has been Secretary for the National Collegiate Choral Organization, SWACDA R&S Chair for Colleges and Universities, and held other offices in ACDA. Currently, she is serving as Treasurer for the College Music Society.
***Sneed created NAVE Voices in 2012 as a way of bringing together former singers who wanted to continue their high level of choral performance from their university years. Conducting this choir has been an amazing journey which now has culminated in, not one, but two invitations to Carnegie Hall. Concurrent with her conducting duties with NAVE, Sneed was, for two years, the Director of Choirs at Choctaw High School in Oklahoma, and Vocal Coordinator for the Choctaw-Nicoma Park School District.
See current resume for more specific activities
Other Highlights
- May, 2023 - NAVE Voices and MCC Choirs perform in Barcelona and Paris
- 2022 - NAVE Voices Awarded Honorable Mention for American Prize in Community Choir Division; performs at St. Philips Episcopal Cathedral in Atlanta
- Summer, 2021 - Earthsongs releases one publication of Sneed's edition of Antonín Dvořák's (1841-1904) Songs of Nature, in Czech with IPA and word-by-word translation
- Summer, 2020 - Earthsongs releases two publications of Sneed's edition of Antonín Dvořák's (1841-1904) Songs of Nature, in Czech with IPA and word-by-word translation
- Summer, 2020 - Sneed named to NCCO Task Force for Expanding Choral Pedagogy
- October 2018: McLennan Chorale performs Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe with Collegium Orchestra, Waco, Texas
- September 2018: Nave Voices performs at St. Luke's Episcopal Cathedral, Orlando, Florida and Westminster Winter Park Retirement Center
- July, 2018 - Clinician, International Symposium on Singing and Song II, Newfoundland, Canada, July 2018
- 2016 - Sneed conducts inaugural European Tour for the MCC Choirs
- January 18, 2014 - Sneed conducts NAVE Voices in Carnegie Hall
- September 2013 - Sneed Publication with Earthsongs Publishing: Mari Mome by D. Christov, arr. Sneed Bulgarian secular folk song
- April 2013 - Sneed chosen as a Fine Arts High School Teacher recipient of the Oklahoma State Superintendent's Excellence in the Arts
- May 2012 - Dr. Sneed created NAVE: a professional choral organization comprised of former singers and friends who love singing the highest quality choral music. The weekend of June 28th, 2013 included concerts in the Orlando area, and the weekend of October 21, 2012 was their inaugural concert series in Atlanta. Look for concerts in the Dallas area the weekend of October 20th, 2013.
- January, 2012 - Sneed Publication with Earthsongs Publishing: Blagoslovi by D. Christov, arr. Sneed Bulgarian sacred motet from the Liturgy of St. Ivan Zlatousta.
Mission Statement
IT'S ABOUT THE MUSIC!!
To conduct musicians who are passionate about choral music and who want to perform it everywhere
To teach others the art of communication through choral music
To perform with great amateurs and professionals who enjoy collaboration, hard work, and eating out after concerts
If this sounds like what you are looking for in a conductor, please see the rest of my website for more
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