Garrett Fischbach has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1998, during which time the Orchestra has won three Grammy Awards, performed regularly at Carnegie Hall, toured Europe and Japan, and appeared on  Live in HD  broadcasts to cinema screens worldwide. He was a member of the San Francisco Symphony from 1996-98 and the National Symphony Orchestra from 1995-96, and participated in Grammy Award winning recordings with each of those orchestras. His 2-CD recording of the complete works for solo violin by J.S. Bach was released to critical acclaim in 2004.

Garrett was a college division faculty member at Mannes School of Music from 2008-2015, an adjudicator for the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra Performance Program in 2012, and is a frequent adjudicator for Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competitions. He has performed and taught at the Sun Valley Artist Series, the Sid & Mary Foulger International Music Festival, the International Music Academy Pilsen, Czech Republic, and International Workshops in Graz, Austria.

Garrett earned his Bachelor of Music degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Boston University and his Master of Music degree from Northern Illinois University. He began his violin studies at a young age with his father Gerald Fischbach, and later studied with Elaine Richey, George Neikrug, Roland and Almita Vamos, Yuri Mazurkevich, and Shmuel Ashkenasi.

Garrett's chamber music mentors included members of the American, Guarneri, Muir, and Vermeer quartets.