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, Musica Bella Orchestra in New York, the Moldovan Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington D.C., Ohio University New Music Ensemble, 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.

Equally at home on both the violin and viola, McGann enjoys a multi-faceted musical career. She is currently faculty at the Blair School at Vanderbilt University where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music and Pedagogy. McGann also serves as a pedagogy faculty mentor for the Vanderbilt University Community Scholars Program: a scholarship program that promotes diversity in the musical arts, supports socioeconomic mobility, and harnesses the power of music to build community connections and cross-cultural understanding.

Christina McGann is Concertmaster of the Owensboro Symphony, and has served as Concertmaster of the Nashville Opera Orchestra from 2015-2025. McGann was also the violist of the Blair String Quartet from 2020-2023.

McGann began her teaching career in New York City as a Juilliard Morse Fellow – a program that brings Juilliard students trained as artist-educators into public school classrooms on a weekly basis throughout the school year. In addition to private teaching experience, McGann taught as part of Juilliard’s Instrumental Music Program, has been on faculty at Brooklyn College Preparatory, coached chamber music as a graduate assistant at SUNY-Purchase, received her Suzuki pedagogy training at New York City’s School for Strings, and has served as Artist in Residence at Ohio University School of Music.

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.

Her students have been award prizes throughout the region and at national competitions resulting in concerto appearances with orchestra. They have continued their studies at major conservatories and universities.