THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2016-2017 35 Anna Kate Mackle has been principal harpist of The Florida Orchestra since 1999. She also serves as principal harpist with St. Petersburg Opera and Opera Tampa and is an adjunct faculty member of St. Petersburg College. She previously served as principal harpist for the New World Symphony, Sarasota Opera, Ohio Light Opera, National Repertory Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, and Spoleto Festivals. She has performed with the touring companies of Idina Menzel, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban, among others. Originally from New York City, Mackle attended the preparatory divisions of the Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music in harp and piano, and played violin in the school orchestra, flute in the school band, and trumpet in marching band. She then spent her college and graduate school years in Cleveland, Ohio, where she studied with renowned harpist Alice Chalifoux, earning a bachelor’s degree in music from Baldwin-Wallace College and a master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mackle also serves as faculty member and principal harpist at the Eastern Music Festival, under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. She has performed concertos with the Florida Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Wheeling and Mansfield symphony orchestras and New Jersey Youth Symphony. In 2007, Creative Loafing named Mackle one of the top ten female musicians in Tampa Bay. In her spare time, Mackle enjoys running marathons and vertical races to the top of skyscrapers, hot yoga and traveling. She and her husband, TFO Principal Percussionist John Shaw, and their daughter Madeline, are avid Rays, Bucs and Lightning fans. Celebrated for her gorgeous voice and impeccable m u s i c i a n s h i p , Canadian mezzosoprano A n i ta Krause is equally esteemed in the concert hall and on the opera stage. She has performed with many of North America’s leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Baltimore Symphony and Toronto Symphony. Krause has also appeared with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Grant Park Festival, Les Violons du Roy and the Oregon Bach Festival, among others. She has collaborated with such leading conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Carlos Kalmar, Bernhard Gueller, Bernard Labadie, Kent Nagano, Paavo Jarvi, Pinchas Zukerman and Bruno Weil. Recent performance highlights include Le Nozze di Figaro at Vancouver Opera, Verdi’s Requiem for the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Toronto’s VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert, Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music for her highly acclaimed debut at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Calgary Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem Mass with Symphony Nova Scotia and Bach’s Mass In B Minor with Chorus Niagara. A prizewinner at the Salzburg International Mozart Competition, she has also garnered awards from the George London Foundation, Jean Chalmers Fund, and Canada Council. She was awarded first prize at the Canadian Young Mozart Singers Competition and the silver medal at the CBC Young Artists Competition. In addition, she has been a fellow at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Her discography includes Vivaldi Sacred Music with the Aradia Ensemble on the Naxos label and Verdi and Rossini Rarities with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for CBC discs. Harp ANITA KRAUSE Mezzo-Soprano
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