Dan Snyder comes to classical education via a path of many turns that saw him as a Marine, a soldier, a video game designer, an international opera singer, and a professional church musician. His work has been featured and reviewed in Wired magazine, PC Gamer, on the Discovery Channel, and in Opera News and the Kurt Weill Newsletter, among other publications. He designed military training simulations for the Marine Corps Modeling and Simulation Office at Quantico, sang four seasons with the Washington Opera under Plácido Domingo—part of that time while serving in the U.S. Army Chorus, the all-male vocal counterpart to the U.S. Army Band—made his home for a time in New York City, and returned, by way of what he calls a Homeric cycle, to the Midwest.
He has performed as a vocal soloist in dozens of major works and operatic roles ranging from Verdi to Wagner, with symphonies and opera houses from Berlin to San Francisco. With the U.S. Army Chorus, he frequently performed at the White House.
His education progressed through Bryan College, George Mason University, the Mannes School of Music, and the New School in New York, earning a Master of Arts in History from Liberty University, where he is currently a PhD candidate, and continuing his graduate work in classical studies at New Saint Andrews College.
As an educator, he designed military training for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps and was an instructional video producer for the American Red Cross. He began teaching at the Classical School of Wichita in 2013 in the Rhetoric School, and since 2022 has served as Headmaster of Concordia Academy–Wichita.
His wife is Tracee Snyder, accompanist and music teacher.