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Mary Mazurek, PhD, is a  recording engineer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and author of  (Routledge, 2025). She received her nomination from  at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards in the category of Best Engineered Album, Classical for Liquid Melancholy: Clarinet Music of James Stephenson. Her engineering work is regularly featured on and WFMT.com, with broadcasts heard across the U.S. and internationally through the .

An advocate for women in the recording industry—currently less than 5% of the field—Mary serves as  for the Audio Engineering Society. She is a voting member of , a past governor and task-force chair, and former president of the Engineering and Recording Society of Chicago. She is also a member of the exclusive  and an Educational Advisor for .

Mary began her career in 1992 at Universal Recording in Chicago. Her credits include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Kronos Quartet, Michael Feinstein, Howard Levy, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the New York Philharmonic. Her recordings appear on , Naxos, Delmark, MSR, and Sounds True, among others.

In addition to her audio career, Mary is an interdisciplinary artist whose sound/image-based work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Mexico, and Berlin. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Columbia College Chicago and a PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from the . In addition to her audio recording work, her research explores the role of noise in aesthetics and intentional listening.

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Publications

 (2025) Routledge.

 (2022) AES

 (2018) WFMT.com

Recordings

 Bella Voce – Andrew Lewis Artistic Director; Liza Calisesi Maidens, conductor (2024) Centaur

 James M. Stephenson, composer; Lake Forest Symphony; Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor (2022) Çedille

 John Bruce Yeh, Lake Forest Symphony; Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor; Chicago Pro Musica; Alex Klein, Patric Godon (2019) Çedille

Radio Broadcasts & Livestreams

 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor; Michelle Cann, Piano (2024) WFMT Radio and CSO.org

 (2025) Classical Music Chicago, live from St. James Cathedral, Chicago

 (2024) Classical Music Chicago, live from St. James Cathedral, Chicago

Podcasts

 (2024)

 (2022)

Awards

Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant (2025)

Communicator Award of Distinction Category: Live Radio Broadcast Audio Producer, “The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Live From Ravinia” (2025)

Communicator Award of Excellence Category: Audio Production, “WFMT: Apollo’s Fire Road to Dublin”

Communicator Award of Excellence Category: Live Radio Broadcast Audio Producer, “The Chicago Symphony Orchestra from Ravinia, Marin Alsop, conductor; Stewart Goodyear, Piano” (2023)

Communicator Award of Excellence Category: Sound Editing, “Rancho La Puerta Tips for the Ranch” Podcast (2022)

GRAMMY Nomination Best Engineered Album Classical, Liquid Melancholy Clarinet Music of James M. Stephenson(2019)