TECHNOFLUTE

Mackenzie Danner, Flutist, Piccoloist, and Techno Producer performs a myriad of concerts a year throughout the the United States. Ms. Danner received her Master of Music in Flute Performance and Music Technology in 2008 from Northwestern University where she studied flute and piccolo with Walfrid Kujala, former piccoloist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She received her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and Music Technology with a minor in Art and Technology in 2004 from Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala and Richard Graef, Associate Principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her past teachers include Susan Levitin and Tyra Gilb. She was also selected to play in master classes with Emmanuel Pahud, Rhonda Larson, Bradley Garner, Thomas Robertello, Marco Granados, Nadine Asin, and Donald Peck. She has played flute and piccolo in many of Northwestern University's ensembles including the Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Baroque Music Ensemble. She also has played flute and piccolo in the Lake Shore Symphony, Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and the Classical Symphony Orchestra. She placed third in the Walfrid Kujala International Piccolo Artist Competition and placed third in the Claude Monteux Young Artist Competition in 2009. She was a semi-finalist in the National Flute Association's Piccolo Artist Competition in 2009, and she also won the National Federation of Music Clubs Orchestral Woodwind Competition in 2007. She has also been a finalist for the New World Symphony from 2004-2009. In 2008, she played flute and piccolo in several concerts conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and Thomas Ades. In 2009, she performed on flute and piccolo in Mahler's Symphony No.1 in D Major with the New World Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Mackenzie's main artistic goal is to produce new contemporary music and multimedia, and to discover an artistic language that will unify the different media that she wants to work with.