Audrey Q. Snyder cellist

Audrey Q. Snyder is a cellist, songwriter, and arranger based in the Twin Cities. 

As a pop and rock musician, Audrey performed with The Who as touring principal cellist on their Moving On! tour in 2019, for The Who Hits Back! 2022-2023 tour, and during their Teenage Cancer Trust shows at Royal Albert Hall in 2024. Under the simpler moniker Audrey Q, she has also written and recorded three of her own EPs, and in June of 2025 she released her first full length album, titled The Universe is Expanding and So Are You.  Snyder also enjoys covering her favorite albums, and has presented live performances of her arrangements of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, Carole King's Tapestry, and Peter Gabriel's So.  

As a theater musician, Audrey has played in professional productions of The Lion King, Mary Poppins, The Bridges of Madison County, Oklahoma!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Oliver!. Audrey also subbed regularly on Hamilton: An American Musical during its 3-year stay in Chicago, and later toured with two other companies of the show from 2021 to 2023. In the Twin Cities, she has most recently contributed to the History Theatre musical Whoa, Nellie!

She is an advocate of contemporary instrumental music. As a former core member of the Chicago-based Zafa Collective⏤ a new music group founded with the idea of inclusivity (both in programming and performance) at its core⏤ she performed at Constellation, Poetry Foundation, Fulton Street Collective, and others. In December 2019, Snyder produced, performed in and coordinated the live performance of New Music//New Film Collaborative, a year-long project that facilitated the creation of 5 new pieces with corresponding video art; all audio with video was released in 2020.

 

Audrey holds a B.M. and M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Alan Harris.