His major commissions include: "The Virgin" from the BBC, "The Passion", recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and premiered on BBC Radio One, "The Cry: A Requiem for the Lost Child", premiered at St Paul's Cathedral in aid of Save the Children, and numerous Dutch commissions including HTV's special musical documentary, Song of an Exile, recorded at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.
[citation needed] In the late 1990s, Snell semi-retired as a professional musician to train as a music therapist.
[citation needed] In June 1995, the release of Snell's major City of Peace was officially published.
City of Peace also comes as a climax to eleven years of searching and discovery that began with a journey into the lives of Jewish men, women, and children caught up in the Nazi Holocaust.
Music is, in the end, the language of my heart, so not surprisingly much of my writing since then expresses the search for answers and meaning in all that the Holocaust and Jewish history opens up in us.