In February 1987, Lora Lynn Snow conceived of forming a professional orchestra in Gallia County, Ohio, and basing its performances in the Ariel Theatre. She spearheaded the restoration of the historic opera house, which had been abandoned, and was the moving force behind the creation of The Ohio Valley Symphony. She later expanded her efforts to helping establish the After School String Project, a string instruction program, the Ohio Valley Youth Orchestra, the Ariel Dancers, and the Ariel Players, a community theatre troupe—all of whom called the historic Morris & Dorothy Haskins Ariel Theatre in the Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre, home.

Lora is principal oboist for The Ohio Valley Symphony, a post she also holds with the Huntington (W.Va.) Symphony. She is also a member of the West Virginia Symphony in Charleston and the River Cities Symphony Orchestra in Parkersburg and she performs with the Kingsbury Woodwind Quintet at Marshall University. Lora earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Ohio State University.

Before moving to Gallia County in 1980, she taught woodwinds and was Assistant Director of the Concert Band at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and she performed with the Arkansas Symphony and at several Little Rock recording studios. She was a founding member of the Little Rock Chamber Orchestra. In Gallia County, she taught music in the Gallia County Local Schools and at the University of Rio Grande. She is an active recitalist, clinician and consultant. She has been published in the country and abroad. In 2005, Snow was awarded the “Arts and Outstanding Leadership Heritage Award” from the Ohio’s Hill Country Heritage Area Association for her twenty years of volunteer work for the Ariel Theatre.