artistic director

Sandra Snow

As a conductor, pedagogue, and scholar, Sandra Snow is widely acknowledged for bringing singers of all ages and abilities to artful performance through an understanding of the music and its context in the world around them.  Dr. Snow is Director of Choral Programs and Area Chair of Conducting at the Michigan State University College of Music, where she oversees graduate programs in choral conducting and mentors young professionals into and through careers in academia and the professional sphere.

The University Chorale and Mosaic ensemble have appeared as featured performers at American Choral Directors Association conventions at state, regional, and national levels. As a guest conductor, she travels extensively in North America and abroad.

In 2017 Snow created mirabai, a project-based professional women’s chorus. mirabai’s recording Ecstatic Songs was the winner of the American Prize in Choral Music, professional choirs’ division, in 2020.  Their second recording, Home in Me, was released in fall 2022.  The mission of mirabai includes outreach and education programs designed to support the work of women as educators, composers, poets, and conductors.  Snow curates two music series, In High Voice (Boosey & Hawkes) and the mirabai “seen and heard” series (Musicspoke).

Snow is a recipient of the Michigan State University William J. Beal Award for Distinguished Faculty, the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Dortha J. and John D. Withrow Award for Excellence in Teaching.