Cynthia Snodgrass has an undergraduate degree in Renaissance Music and a Master’s degree in Musicology from Syracuse University, as well as a Master’s of Divinity from Bexley Hall. An ordained Episcopal priest, she has served as a hospice chaplain for over seventeen years. She is found of the Sacred Sound Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the spiritually therapeutic benefits of sacred sound. As Senior Instructor at the American Sanskrit Institute, she teaches Sanskrit and offers workshops on the use of sacred sound across the United States. She has produced and recorded two CDs of sacred chant.