Grant Mack has established himself as a top collaborative pianist in Oregon and Hawaii.  With the Honolulu Symphony, 1991-2015, (Read more)

he performed most of the repertoire for orchestra with piano, such as Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka”, Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 1”, “Appalachian Spring” by Copland, “Nixon in China” by Adams, Saint-Saëns’s “Carnival of the Animals” and recorded Copland’s “Clarinet Concerto” with principal clarinetist Scott Anderson.  At the Honolulu Symphony he performed with the principal players and with guest artists like violinist Eugene Fodor, cellists Robert La Marchina and I-Bei Lin, a professor of cello at the University of Hawai’i. The Honolulu Advertiser praised his “standout” performances.

Grant has explored a large range of repertoire for winds, strings, brass, percussion, and voice, including light classical, popular and Hawaiian music. He performed often in the “Music at Atherton” chamber recitals for Hawaii Public Radio and was the soloist with the Honolulu Symphony on the sound track for the movie “Princess Ka’iulani” in 2009. As a singer, he has explored most of the vocal repertoire as well as vocal diction and vocal pedagogy.  He studied lieder and opera coaching at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria with the Gramma Fischer Scholarship, in 1984. He has sung as a baritone with Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble and was a member of the Adelphian Concert Choir during his undergraduate years at the University of Puget Sound.  Passionate about liturgical music, he was a cantor at Temple Beth-El in Tacoma,

Washington and at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu.  Grant continues to work as a collaborator for vocal studios and has been a repetiteur with Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera at the University of Hawaii, and the University of Oregon.

He enjoys teaching both privately and in the classroom. At Hawaii Pacific University he was an adjunct Professor of Piano and Chamber Music.  At the University of Oregon he specialized in collaboration, teaching and coaching as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, while earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2022.

Encouraging today’s composers, he has premiered works by Joseph Wayne Vranas, Dan Daly, and Daniel Delay. At the University of Oregon he has participated in their biennial Composer’s Symposium under Robert Kyr; and worked often with soprano Estelí Gomez where she mentors young composers writing for voice and instruments.  He performed the world premiere of “Suite of the Earth” for piano, percussion and flute by Portland composer David S. Bernstein.