McKenzie Warriner

McKenzie Warriner is a Canadian soprano acclaimed for her interpretation of repertoire spanning from the Baroque to the Avant-garde. An alumna of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program, this season McKenzie made her mainstage debut with the company as Papagena in The Magic Flute, and she also performed with Edmonton Opera singing chamber works by Osvaldo Golijov. Other recent credits include Messiah (Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra), Le portrait de Manon (Vancouver Opera), and Abigail Richardson-Schulte’s Alligator Pie (Regina Symphony Orchestra). Particularly committed to music by living composers, McKenzie is a co-founder of Slow Rise Music, a Toronto-based concert series that has commissioned 11 works to date. In 2023, McKenzie premiered new orchestral vocal works at the Aldeburgh Festival as a Britten Pears Young Artist, and she was named the winner of the 2023 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Competition in Contemporary Music, granting her the opportunity to give a recital tour across Canada with pianist Danielle Guina. She was also recently featured on an album of music by composer Tristan Zaba (her husband) on the Centrediscs label. McKenzie holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Manitoba, and is a devoted pet-mother to Marcie the dog and Blake the snake.