“One of the decade’s more gifted, up-and-coming modern classical composers.”

– Pitchfork

“An important representative of 21st century trends in composition.”

– New York Classical Review

“A potentially significant voice on the American music landscape.”

– Philadephia Inquirer

“Snider’s music lives in an increasingly populous inter-genre space that, as of yet, has produced only a few clear, confident voices. Snider is perhaps the most sophisticated of them all.”

– Pitchfork

“A modern composer of significant note and accomplishment.”

– textura

“Among the brightest lights to emerge in recent seasons.”

– Time Out New York

“Genre-erasing”

– The New Yorker

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider writes music of direct expression and vivid narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), "groundbreaking" (The Boston Globe), and “poignant, deeply personal.” (The New Yorker.)

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July 8, 2020

Sarah's new album 'Mass for the Endangered' will be released Sept 25 on Nonesuch and New Amsterdam.

The Mass, with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world.

“Sarah Kirkland Snider is conjoining genres to produce culturally electric new music.”

– Los Angeles Times

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2020

Mass for the Endangered

The Mass, with libretto by Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and elegy for, the natural world, performed by English vocal ensemble Gallicantus led by Gabriel Crouch