Agnes Schnabl is a freelance conductor and a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the subjects of conducting and choir since 2021. She is the director of the Austrian National Youth Choir, the Tyrolean National Youth Choir, the ensemble kanti (Graz), and the coro siamo (Vienna). She works as an choir director and educator at choir conducting courses throughout Austria and in neighboring countries and has served as a jury member at national and international choral competitions, including the Summa Cum Laude - International Youth Music Festival Vienna.

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She studied conducting and choral conducting pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Johannes Prinz, Rahela Durič, and Franz Jochum. Prior to that, she received conducting lessons from Alois Glaßner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as part of her music pedagogy studies. Additionally, she completed the postgraduate choral conducting course with Jörn Hinnerk-Andresen at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She also benefited from valuable conducting insights by Justin Doyle and Florian Helgath.

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From 2021 to 2023, she was a scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum program of the German Music Council. As part of this scholarship, she worked with Yuval Weinberg and Bernhard Schmidt, and conducted the MDR Radio Choir, the SWR Vokalensemble, the Philharmonic Choir Berlin and Canta Nova Saar. In 2022, she assisted Justin Doyle with the Klangkosmos Schütz 22 project, a cooperative project of four German state youth choirs and the RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin.

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Agnes has repeatedly worked with the Wiener Singverein, the choir of the Wiener Musikverein, and has taken on guest conducting engagements with Vocalconsort Initium (Japan), Cor di Jëuni Gherdëina (Italy), Drauphilharmonie Villach, Chorus Alea, and other ensembles.

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As part of her university education and external training, she has worked with the Zürcher Singakademie, the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, the Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden, the City Theater Choir Klagenfurt, the University Orchestra of the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Orchestra for New Music of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and their film music orchestra, and conducted in opera and operetta productions. She received musical input from Hans-Christoph Rademann, Steven Sametz, Johann Van der Sandt, Robert Sund, Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Josep Vila i Casanas, Maria Goundorina, Erwin Ortner and Thomas Caplin through master classes.

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Agnes has been active as a singer in the Terzett Lerchenschnabl and the Terzett 3 Schnablinge. Overall, the ensembles received multiple awards in various competitions.​ In addition to classical music, Agnes has a great passion for folk music. Due to her family background, she has a notable connection to the Slovenian Carinthian song.