Annie Garlid

Annie Garlid grew up in New England and lives in New York City. She studied English at Smith College, viola performance at New England Conservatory, early music at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, and ensemble singing at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. She recently moved back to the US after 9 years in Germany. As a viola player and singer, she is most interested in very old and very new forms of musical innovation as well as in music’s intersection with other media. She has worked together with a number of young composers and artists in experimental music and electronic music, including Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri, Emptyset, Cat Lamb, Nile Koetting, Marc Sabat, Bill Kouligas, Max Murray, Martin Hiendl, Rishin Singh, Cat Hope, and Henry Andersen. She plays and sings with De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging, the Handel & Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, Barockorchester Auris & Aulis, Ensemble Kaleidoskop, Arcadia Players, and Konzert Minimal. She makes experimental pop music under the moniker UCC Harlo and released an acclaimed debut album in March 2019. She has since toured internationally and licensed her music to Chanel and JW Anderson for their runway shows. She is currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at NYU, where she researches musical manifestations of our tenuous relationships with ecology, technology, and care.