Fitz Gary

Fitz Gary is a native of Charlottesville, Virginia, but his performing career hurled him across the United States, Europe, and Asia to roam the corridors of such venues as Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and Japan’s Suntory Hall. After receiving his Bachelor and Master's Degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, he was selected as a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar.  He studied with Barbara Westphal at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, where he was subsequently awarded the DAAD prize for an outstanding international student, as well as his second master’s degree. While in Germany, Fitz also performed with the Grammy-Award-winning NDR Sinfonieorchester (Elbphilharmonie) in Hamburg as a member of their Academy. 

After returning to the United States, Fitz has served as a Clinician Ambassador for D’Addario and the President of the Feldman Chamber Music Society in Norfolk, Virginia. Worthy of note, in 2012 Fitz started a project called Music Feeds Us, a chamber music series which ran for seven seasons, and raised over 175,000 meals for partner food banks in Virginia.  Fitz has the pleasure of periodically performing with some of America’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and a smattering of others.