Professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Violist Maggie Snyder is Professor of Viola at the University of Georgia, Principal Violist of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, with whom she records for Naxos, and is on the Artist-Faculty of the Brevard Music Festival. She has performed solo recitals, chamber music, concertos and as an orchestral musician throughout the United States and abroad in such halls as the Kennedy and Kauffman Centers, all three halls at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Spivey Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center, and in Greece, Korea, the UK, and Russia. Ms. Snyder has given master classes, clinics, and recitals at universities and music schools throughout the country and abroad, including the University of Surrey in the UK, the Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea, and the Universities of Michigan, Colorado, Ohio State, Minnesota, Michigan State, Tennessee, South Carolina, Memphis, Interlochen, Hartt, among others. Ms. Snyder earned graduate degrees from The Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she was the teaching assistant for Victoria Chiang. Her Bachelor's degree is from her hometown school, The University of Memphis, where she was a Pressar Scholar. More information is available at her website, www.maggiesnyder.com.
