Christina McGann has been a featured performer at the Kennedy Center, the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, New York City’s Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, and Bargemusic, and at various venues throughout the US, Korea, El Salvador, and Europe. She has also performed concertos with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Richardson Symphony, the Moldovan Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington D.C., and the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony in Russia.
McGann has been awarded prizes at the Johansen International Competition, the National Symphony Young Soloist Competition, the Lennox Competition, the Ackerman Chamber Music Competition with Trio Artica, Chamber Music Yellow Springs with the iO Quartet, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.
McGann holds both BM and MM in violin performance from The Juilliard School where she was accepted with Presidential Distinction. Her foundational teachers include Ronald Copes, Victor Danchenko, Robert Mann, and Donald Weilerstein. She also completed her doctoral degree at SUNY Stony Brook under the guidance of Nicholas Cords, Soovin Kim, Philip Setzer, and Hagai Shaham.
She is currently on faculty at the Blair School at Vanderbilt University where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music and Pedagogy. She is also Concertmaster of the Nashville Opera Orchestra and frequently performs recitals and chamber music.