Mackenzie Lyn Marr

An expressive musician and sensitive collaborator, Mackenzie Lyn Marr made her orchestral debut at age sixteen with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra. She has performed for renowned musicians including Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Warren Jones, Sanford Sylvan, Sylvia McNair, Alan Louis Smith, Susanne Mentzer, and Kayo Iwama. 

Mackenzie is currently based in Phoenix, where she is a doctoral student in collaborative piano at Arizona State University, studying with Andrew Campbell.  She holds a Master's degree in collaborative piano from the University of Maryland, and has had additional studies at SongFest, Source Song Festival, the Castleman Quartet Program, Bay View Music Festival (Opera Fellow), The Atlantic Music Festival, and the Chamber Music Institute at Holy Cross.

Dedicated to new music and collaborative work, Mackenzie has played in the presence of the composer for Libby Larsen, Jake Heggie, and Abbie Betinis. While a student at the University of Georgia, she served as a pianist for the University of Georgia Composer's Association and performed frequently with the Hodgson Wind Ensemble. 

Mackenzie also holds a Master's degree in piano performance from the University of Georgia, where she received the Jan Fowler Cross Scholarship for piano, and also specialized in Pedagogy. Most notably, she has given presentations at the MTNA National Conference and the MTNA Collegiate Piano Pedagogy Conference on her work teaching distance lessons to high school girls at the Moi Girls School in Eldoret, Kenya. 

Mackenzie is a member of The Evelyn Duo, alongside soprano Shari Eve Feldman. The duo is dedicated to works by contemporary composers, particularly in presenting music and texts by women, and has performed at the Dark Water Women in Music Festival, and Washington Arts Club, the Epiphany Concert Series, and at Hartwick College.