ANNE GAREE, Program Director for Piano Technology came to 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 23 year teaching career in the College of Music offering a series of piano technology courses for pianists. 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 in Canada. Thanks to an active Early Music Program at Florida State University, she has enjoyed working with harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and square grands and their historical temperaments and tuning systems.

In 2004, she initiated conversations with her colleagues in the College of Music towards the development of a curricular opportunity for students interested in Piano Technology. This came to full fruition in 2006, with the approval of the Master of Arts in Music degree offered at FSU (with a track in Piano Technology).

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.