With over thirty years of experience, Nicole Snodgrass is a choral director, music educator, and vocalist dedicated to fostering musical excellence. In addition to her role as Instructor of Choral Music Education at The College of New Jersey, she has served as choral director at Ursinus College since August 2022. In 2023, Nicole Snodgrass was awarded the Ursinus College Inclusion & Equity Faculty Award. Her Voices of Ursinus choir has sung “The National Anthem” at a Philadelphia Phillies game, performed at Radio City Music Hall (opening for the world-famous Rockettes), participated in private masterclasses with award-winning composer/conductor Marques Garrett, Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer, and world-renowned composer Melissa Dunphy.  In April 2024, the Voices of Ursinus gave a world-premiere performance of commissioned work “May You Walk Gently” by Grammy Award-nominated singer and member of VOCES8 Blake Morgan. Just seven months after its inception, her Ursinus College Singers traveled to New Orleans on a choir tour and performed at historic St. Louis Cathedral and Loyola University New Orleans.

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.  They have been featured performers at ACDA and NJMEA conferences. She has provided workshops for her students with renowned musicians VOCES8, Jake Runestad, The King’s Singers, Ola Gjeilo, Paul Phoenix, David Conte, Rollo Dilworth, Amanda Quist, Tom Shelton, and Gabriel Crouch. 

Nicole Snodgrass was a choral director on 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 has been a guest presenter at the New Jersey Music Educators Association State Conference, The College of New Jersey, Westminster Choir College, Messiah University, University of the Arts, South Jersey Choral Directors Association, and the American Choral Directors Association of Pennsylvania. 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 thirty years, serving as soprano soloist at Historic Old Pine Street 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.

Nicole Snodgrass earned her M.M. in Choral Conducting from Messiah University and B.S. in Music Education from West Chester University.  She received her Kodály Level I Certification at Westminster Choir College. She has studied with renowned choral conductors Donald Nally, Joe Miller, and James Jordan.