Anna Kate Mackle is the newly appointed lecturer in harp at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Mackle says she is excited to join the school’s faculty this fall. “It’s an excellent, innovative music school in a beautiful location, with many performance opportunities for harpists in orchestras and chamber ensembles, and I can’t wait to start working with the talented harp students there,” she says. “There are ample harp scholarships and teaching assistantships available, and I really look forward to seeing the harp program grow.”
Mackle has served as principal harp of The Florida Orchestra (TFO) since 1999. Along with her husband, TFO principal percussion John Shaw, she founded the Mackle Shaw Duo, which commissions and performs music for harp and percussion. Prior to joining TFO, she served as principal harp of the New World Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival, the Spoleto Festival Orchestras (Italy and USA), the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. Mackle served as principal harp and faculty artist at Eastern Music Festival from 2000–2024. She has been an adjunct faculty member at St. Petersburg College since 2000.
Mackle earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin-Wallace University and a Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Alice Chalifoux during both degree programs.
