Notable Achievements

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Bonnie Sneed provided a pre-UIL clinic for five choirs at Copperas Cove High School. The all-day clinic involved over 15 pieces. A Sweepstakes Award-winning program, Copperas Cove High School has a professional staff of two full-time high school teachers and an accompanist.

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Bonnie Sneed

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Expertise

Choral Conducting (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Choral Methods

Choral Literature

Diction

Music History 1 and 2

Supervision of Student Teachers

Choral Arranging

Financial Planning (passed the CFP® exam)

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 multiple 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, Sight Reading, and accompanied faculty and students, 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.


Dr. 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. She has taught high school in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and South Carolina.

  • Biography

    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 multiple 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, Sight Reading, and accompanied faculty and students, 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.


    Dr. 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. She has taught high school in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and South Carolina.

  • Publications

    Most recent:

    • Summer, 2021 - Earthsongs released 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 released two publications of Sneed’s edition of Antonín Dvořák’s (1841-1904) Songs of Nature, in Czech with IPA and word-by-word translation
  • Performances

    Most recent:

    • 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; performed at St. Philip’s Episcopal Cathedral in Atlanta
    • 2021 - NAVE Voices Episcopal Cathedral, Boston
  • Presentations

    College Music Society, Treasurer - Presentation of quarterly and monthly budgets; Chair of Oversight Committee for External Consultant and presented the work of the committee

    National Collegiate Choral Organization

    https://ncco-usa.org/publications/the-conductor-as-scholar/issues/34

     

    Member of Pi Beta Kappa https://www.southwestern.edu/academics/phi-beta-kappa/current-members/