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 has conducted numerous collegiate and community ensembles in the Seattle, Chicago, and Houston areas. She currently conducts the Finnish Choral Society of Seattle and works with the Eesti Koor (Estonian) and Vakarai Lithuanian choirs in Seattle.
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.
