06/15/2025
Continuing to introduce and celebrate our 2025-2026 Team: Please join us is welcoming Anne Marie Mackler, who will assume the role of our Development Manager, effective September 1st, 2025.
Anne Marie hails from Detroit where she discovered her love of art, music, and poetry, but also realized an annual impatience for spring’s warmth. As a college junior she headed to Arizona and was quickly won over with subtler seasons, dark skies, and reliable sunshine. Earning a degree in Spanish at NAU, she pursued work in the arts, well, the culinary arts, and she became a professional baker best known for her carrot cake. But her strong communication skills and deep appreciation for community led her to leave the hot ovens and early hours behind and earn a degree in creative writing. This led to her first job in nonprofits and also in the literary arts with a position at the Border Book Festival. She honed her fundraising and grant writing skills there and had the great fortune to work with tremendous poets, writers, and musicians. Over the years, Anne Marie has also been honored to fundraise for several great organizations including a hospital, university, and library. Now, she has happily landed at Sedona Symphony and is excited to again work directly in the arts. She looks forward to getting to know people who are dedicated to the magic that great music brings to a community.
“Returning to fundraising for the arts feels natural to me, especially in music," says Anne Marie. "Growing up, we listened to all kinds of music, and my parents were classical music aficionados. Now, I am excited to listen, learn, advocate, and help keep Sedona Symphony vibrant and strong for generations to come.”