Katrina MacKinnon

Canadian-born choral conductor, pianist, and singer, Katrina MacKinnon is the newly appointed Schools Choral Director of St. Mary’s Cathedral. She will be providing curriculum-based singing lessons to state school primary classes across Edinburgh, while also forming after-school choirs providing various performance opportunities throughout the year. Our Edinburgh programme forms part of the acclaimed National Schools Singing Programme. Katrina holds an MA in choir conducting from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (2025), an MMus degree in Piano Performance (2020) from the University of Alberta, and a BMus degree (2018) from McGill University.

Katrina has performed all across Canada and Hungary. She was the 2024 conducting fellow for Sing the North Choir Festival in Victoria, BC, for a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Prior to moving to Budapest, Katrina directed choirs and ran a private piano studio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She was the artistic director and founder of the Melodia singers, as well as the director of the St. Paul’s Co-Cathedral Children’s Choir. She also worked with the internationally recognized Saskatoon Children’s Choir. As a singer, some of Katrina’s choral highlights are featuring as a soloist for a Hungarian performance of excerpts from Elijah, singing with the professional chamber choir Voces Boreales in Montreal, and touring with the National Youth Choir of Canada. Her public piano performances include a candlelight concert with cellist Katherine Pernal in Grande Prairie, AB; Prairie Saxophone Initiative’s summer tour of 2022; and a duo piano concert with Terri-Lynn Mitchell at the Bassment.