Cellist Audrey Q. Snyder will be joining Lux for our 2026 Holiday Concerts and 2027 Winter Concert Series.
About Audrey
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, Peter Gabriel's So, and Fiona Apple's Tidal.
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 performed with productions at Artistry, History Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatre.
She is an avid chamber musician and advocate for contemporary 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 spaces including Constellation, Poetry Foundation, and Fulton Street Collective. 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. She now performs regularly with Lake Pepin Chamber Music, collaborating on diverse and engaging programs around the Twin Cities metro.
Audrey holds a B.M. and M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Alan Harris.
Violinist Susan Crawford is joining Lux for our 2027 Winter Concert Series and March collaboration with Havana Quartet.
About Susan
Susan Crawford, Suzuki violin, has been dedicated to teaching Suzuki private and group lessons for 20 plus years. She studied violin with Makoto Kaneshiro, Almita and Roland Vamos, Burton Kaplan and Jorja Fleezanis. A lover of music and lifelong learning, Susan has pursued her passion for enrichment through music festivals and seminars such as Meadowmount, Aspen, Round Top, Magic Mountain and the Juilliard DeLay Symposium. After receiving her performance degree she continued to develop her passion for pedagogy through many years of training and enrichment study—primarily at the American Suzuki Institute and Ottawa Suzuki Institute.
It was the depth of creativity, positive life giving philosophy, love for music and children that she discovered within the Suzuki teaching community, as well as the relationships with her students that have continued over many years to fuel her love for teaching. Susan has taught at the Northern Lights School for Strings in St. Paul, the Texas State University Suzuki Institute and Intermountain Suzuki String Institute. In addition to her teaching Susan enjoys an active freelance career. She is a member of Minnesota Sinfonia and has been the concertmaster for many years at The Ordway Music Theater for their Broadway series.
Mezzo-soprano Kristina Rodel Sorum is collaborating with Lux for our 2027 Winter Concert Series "Things to tell you now," a program celebrating vocal and quartet music from the last hundred years.
About Kristina
Kristina Rodel Sorum is a sought-after Minneapolis-based Mezzo Soprano with a breadth of experience as a soloist and chorister. Passionate about all forms of vocal music, she is equally at home performing as a soloist for timeless works such as Handel’s Messiah as she is premiering art song and opera so new that the ink hasn’t dried. Praised as “lovely” in the Minnesota Star Tribune for her performance as the alto soloist in J.S. Bach Cantata 147 with Bach Society of Minnesota, she lends a clear, approachable sound and a warm and inviting artistry to every performance. Kristina is a frequent recitalist, having made her Schubert Club recital premiere in 2025, and performing regularly as a solo artist on the Thursday Musical Artist Series. Kristina is a two-time award winner at SongSlam Minneapolis, collaborating with leading composers of new vocal music (Timothy C. Takach, 2025 and Isaac Lovdahl, 2020) in this competition for new art songs put on by Source Song Festival and Sparks & Wiry Cries.
In high demand as a chorister, Kristina has appeared with ensembles such as the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers (2016-present), Bach Society of Minnesota, Bach Roots Festival, the Minnesota Renaissance Choir, Consortium Carissimi, The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists, The Minnesota Chorale, and imPulse. She has also appeared with Opera Reading Project, Journey North Opera (formerly Twin Cities Fringe Opera), The Twin Cities Early Music Festival, the Lakes Area Music Festival, the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, and the Prague Summer Nights Young Artist Festival.
Together with collaborators KT Thompson (Accordion and Piano) and John Thompson (Guitar and Ukulele), Kristina sings lead vocals in Musettikka: a genre-spanning cover band performing art song, bluegrass, musical theater, jazz, American Songbook, and more.