Dr. McCormick is in his ninth year of teaching with the Fairfax County Public school system. He was recently invited to join the music faculty at Patrick Henry College, where he serves as theory professor and chamber music specialist.  He is also the director of the summer orchestral program at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music.  Dr. McCormick is a contributor to new research in the historical performance practice of music of baroque era.  He specializes in the performance of the viola d'amore, an unusual baroque instrument with sympathetic strings.  An excerpt of his doctoral thesis 'Pur al fin Gentil Viola' was published in the Newsletter of the Viola d'Amore Society of America.  One of his performances, from the National Gallery in Ottawa with members of the Canadian group Tafelmusik, was broadcast nationally by CBC radio.  He was also featured by the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra in a double concerto with award-winning lutinist Paul O'Dette.  He has also performed as a viola d'amore soloist with the Richmond Symphony, with the Penn State University Baroque Orchestra, and for the annual National Cathedral performance of Bach's St. John Passion.

Dr. McCormick and his wife Rebekah are the founders of Second Fiddle Farm,  a 12-acre facility in Loudoun county, where they board and train dressage horses .  Their spunky three year old daughter, Norah, recently welcomed a brother, Hugh, to the family.