Heather MacLaughlin Garbes is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. There she developed and maintains the UW Baltic Choral Library — It’s the first collection of its kind in the United States.

She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mägi Ensemble, a women’s ensemble that performs and records Baltic music.

She is the Artistic Director of The Everett Chorale and conducts the Finnish Choral Society of Seattle and the Eesti Koor of Seattle. She also works with the West Coast Estonian Choir and the Vakarai Lithuanian Choir.

She has conducted numerous collegiate and community ensembles in the Seattle, Chicago, and Houston areas.

Dr. MacLaughlin Garbes has presented at, ACDA National, ACDA Divisional, College Music Society’s National and International conferences, the Library of Congress and The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies conferences.