A native of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelors in Music Education, Mia Hagarty has had a very active performing and teaching career in Texas, Tennessee, and around the world.

She has sustained a violin/viola studio in many places, including Iowa, Connecticut, South Texas, and Vienna, Austria. She specializes in the Suzuki Method as she was taught that way herself, beginning violin instruction at the age of three.  She was also an adjunct instructor of violin and viola at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas for 11 years and taught several summers at the Coastal Bend String Camp. Mia is an active musician and has been a member of the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony, and now currently, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra. She has played with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Kingsville Symphony Orchestra, the Corpus Christi Ballet Orchestra, the Bay Rock Orchestra, and the Sparkling City Opera.

Also an active chamber musician, Mia has been an invited artist at the Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival and has collaborated with many string quartets and solo musicians. Mia currently plays regularly with the Nashville Opera. She has been the director and master teacher of the String Project at Tennessee Tech University since 2019.