About
Hannie McGarity is a violinist in the Victoria Symphony and the Bellingham Festival of Music. She previously held a position in Symphony Tacoma and has also performed with New World Symphony, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and Bozeman Symphony Orchestra. Hannie grew up in Bellingham, WA, then studied and freelanced in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, and Seattle areas before moving to Victoria.
Hannie earned her master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Sheryl Staples of the New York Philharmonic. She received her Bachelor of Music from St. Olaf College in 2019, where she studied with Dr. Francesca Anderegg and toured domestically and internationally for four years under the baton of Maestro Steven Amundson. With the St. Olaf Orchestra she toured many parts of the United States, Argentina and Uruguay in 2016, and as concertmaster she led the orchestra onstage at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Norway in 2019. She was a winner of the Senior Soloists Competition in the spring of 2019. Hannie has performed solo recitals for the Bellingham Festival of Music (2018) and the International Edvard Grieg Society’s conference in Bergen, Norway (as the winner of the 2017 Edvard Grieg Society of Minnesota String Competition).
Hannie has spent summers performing in the National Repertory Orchestra, Brevard Music Center and Marrowstone Summer Music Festival Orchestras, and has studied at Domaine Forget International Music Academy and ENCORE! Chamber Music Festival. She has also worked as a fellow at the Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School, an instructor for the Multicultural Music Group’s Symphonic Youth Program in NYC, and a chamber coach/camp counselor at the St. Olaf College Summer Music Academy.