Anne Garee

Anne Garee, Program Director for Piano Technology, came to The Florida State University as a piano technician in 1983 and joined the faculty in 2004. Along with her tuning and restoration duties, Ms. Garee has enjoyed a twenty-seven year teaching career in the College of Music offering a series of piano technology courses for pianists and piano technicians. Her teaching experience includes technical courses for pianists and technicians in Costa Rica as part of the University’s FloRica Program. In addition, she accepted an invitation by the Carter Center in Atlanta to formulate a Piano Technology course for teachers of the blind in mainland China. She is an active clinician both in the U.S. and abroad. Thanks to an active Early Music Program at The Florida State University, she has enjoyed working with harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and square grands and their historical temperaments and tuning systems.

She designed and implemented the Piano Technology track within the Master of Arts degree program in the College of Music at FSU. This program is the first of its kind anywhere and affords graduate students the unusually rich experience of working with students and faculty in a comprehensive school of music. Past graduates of the program are actively employed in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Ms. Garee holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and completed a three year apprenticeship program for the Certificate in Piano Technology from the Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is a Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. Anne has taken additional training with Steinway and Yamaha working with concert technicians and digital acoustics instructors. She has studied piano action reweighting and rebalancing with David Stanwood, a pioneer in the field of piano action design.