Christina McGann enjoys a diverse performing career as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She has performed concertos with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Richardson Symphony, Musica Bella Orchestra in New York, the Moldovan Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington D.C., Ohio University New Music Ensemble, and most recently the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony in Russia.

McGann has had great success at national and international competitions, winning First Prize at the National Symphony Young Soloist Competition, the Lennox Competition, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, junior division. She was also awarded Third Prize at the Johansen International Competition and Second Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs with the iO Quartet.

McGann holds both BM and MM in violin performance from The Juilliard School. Her principal teachers include Ronald Copes, Victor Danchenko, Robert Mann, and Donald Weilerstein. McGann is currently working towards a doctoral degree at SUNY Stony Brook under the tutelage of Philip Setzer and Soovin Kim.

Also an avid educator, McGann began her teaching career in New York City as a Juilliard Morse Fellow – a program that brings Juilliard students extensively trained as artist-educators into public school classrooms on a weekly basis throughout the school year. In addition to private teaching experience, McGann taught in Juilliard’s Instrumental Music Program and at Brooklyn College Preparatory. She also coached chamber music as a graduate assistant at SUNY-Purchase and received her Suzuki pedagogy training through all books at New York City’s School for Strings. Prior to starting her doctoral degree, McGann served as Artist in Residence and Instructor of Violin and Viola at Ohio University School of Music. McGann is also a member of the IRIS Orchestra in Memphis, Tennessee.