BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

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, is on the Artist-Faculty of the Brevard Music Festival and in the summer of 2025 joined the artists at Classical Tahoe. 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 England, Korea, Greece, and Russia. She has performed under the batons of Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin, James dePriest, Julius Rudel, James Conlon, Keith Lockhart, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and at such festivals as the Brevard Music Festival, Classical Tahoe, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival where she was a Time Warner Fellow. In 2001, Ms. Snyder was a semi-finalist at the 8th Primrose International Viola Competition, and made her recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with her sister duo, Allemagnetti in 2009. The group was called a "winning pair" with a "highly promising debut" by the New York Concert Review. She has performed chamber music with members of the Borromeo, Parker, Jupiter, Cleveland and Tokyo Quartets, the Aspen String Trio, Jon Manassee, Ivo Van der Werff, Itamar Zorman, Orli Shaham, and Peter Frankl, among others.

Ms. Snyder has released five solo recordings: Women’s Work for Viola: Sounds of Discovery (2025), Womens Works for Solo Viola (2023), Viola Alone: Old New and Borrowed (2018), Modern American Viola Music (2015), and Allemagnetti – Music for Viola and Harpsichord (2013) are represented exclusively through Arabesque Recordings and available through iTunes and amazon.com. Her recordings feature new commissions by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Tessa Lark (her first commission), Libby Larsen, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gity Razaz, Kirsten Volness, Virginia Samuel, Garrett Byrnes, Kamran Ince, and Thomas Pasatieri. In 2025 she was named a UGA Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching professor, the highest teaching award offered by UGA, and was the 2018 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Creative Research Medal in the Arts and Humanities for her project commissioning and recording new works for viola. In 2019, she released a collaborative recording featuring the works written for her by Leonard “Chic” Ball titled “Worlds Translucent” with Tim Lovelace and Michael Heald, on PARMA.

In 2023 Ms. Snyder received the University of Georgia Sandy Beaver Teaching Award. Ms. Snyder has given master classes, clinics, and recitals at universities and music schools throughout the country, including The Universities of Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan State, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Interlochen, Hartt, and Converse College, 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 the University of Memphis, where not only she was born and raised, but where she was a Pressar Scholar.