March 10, 2025
Wytko performs at Minnesota Music Educators Midwinter Convention
Submitted by the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Anna Marie Wytko, professor of saxophone at the Kansas State University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, performed as featured concerto soloist at the 2025 Minnesota Music Educators Midwinter Convention in Minneapolis. She presented a premiere performance of Puerto Rican-American composer Giovanni Santos’ “I Dream Awake.” The piece is based upon the foundation that all people, regardless of ethnicity, deserve to dream and deserve opportunities to pursue their dreams.
Wytko is a K-State International Educator of the Year award recipient and Yamaha artist-clinician. She has performed as concerto soloist throughout England and Scotland and with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Air Force Wind Symphony, the Banda Sinfónica de Montevideo of Uruguay and with the Banda de Conciertos de San José of Costa Rica.
She has performed as concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall for the New York International Music Festival, the American Bandmasters Association in Oregon, the American Bandmasters Association and Best of the West Festival in Colorado, the Dr. Lawrence R. Sutherland Wind Festival in California, multiple College Band Directors National Association conferences and multiple Kansas Music Educators Association conferences. Wytko has performed and taught at prestigious institutions such as the Royal College of Music in London, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música of Buenos Aires, the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and throughout Italy in Florence, Milan, Bologna and Perugia