As of February 1990

 Christina McGann, violin

Christina McGann, 15, has played the violin since age 5 and is currently the student of Victor Danchenko at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. She won first prize in the 1998 Friday Morning Music Club high school competition. In the same year, she was a concerto winner in "Viva Vivaldi!", a national high school competition sponsored by the Washington Chamber Symphony and Lifetime Television, and she also won the Peabody Recital competition. Christina was awarded honorable mention in the 1999 Corpus Christi International Young Artist competition. Within Peabody, she has been the recipient of the Isaac and Flora London Scholarship, awarded to an exemplary violin student and numerous performance and achievement awards. This past summer, Christina traveled to Israel and Japan to participate in the Keshet Eilon Mastercourse and the Ishikawa Music Academy. In Israel, she studied with Shlomo Mintz, and was selected to perform in the Gala concert at the Noga Theater in Tel Aviv. In a review of the concert, Christina was described to have "displayed amazing virtuosity, communication, and charisma." In Japan, she had performed in various masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Aaron Rosand, Kim Nam Yun, and Koichiro Harada.

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