Annie Garlid is a musicologist, viola player, singer, and composer. In August 2024 she earned her PhD in musicology at New York University and is now a visiting lecturer there. As a performer, Annie works primarily in baroque music and experimental electronic music. She appeared on Holly Herndon’s 2019 album PROTO and Caterina Barbieri’s 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. She has collaborated and performed with a number of other composers and artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Kouligas, Nile Koetting, Cat Lamb, Marc Sabat, and Laure M. Hiendl. She plays and sings with the Sebastians, Opera Lafayette, the American Classical Orchestra, the Cramer Quartet, De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik. As a violist she has worked with Pierre Boulez, Masaaki Suzuki, David Robertson, Peter Eötvös, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Bernard Labadie, and Harry Christophers. She released her debut album as UCC Harlo in 2019 and her second album, Topos, in 2023. Under that moniker she has since toured internationally, licensed her music to Chanel and JW Anderson, and produced remixes for the Amsterdam duo Know V.A. and the NYC artist NY Graffiti.