Cyrus Mackey in Baltimore Rising Artist Series

Cyrus Mackey is an American Trumpeter, Composer, and Producer who grew up in Chicago and is currently working on his Master’s in Arts at Peabody Institute in Baltimore. As a teenager, he attended the Chicago High School for the Arts and later transferred to Dillard Center for the Arts, where his school won first place in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition in 2018. In his final year of high school, Cyrus was able to tour multiple European countries with Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 2018, its inaugural year. He was later named a 2019 National Young Arts Foundation Finalist in Jazz/Trumpet. Cyrus has been mentored by and studied with some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, such as Nicholas Payton, Sean Jones, Roy Hargrove, and Wynton Marsalis.