Anna Marie Wytko is a member of the music faculty at Kansas State University where she teaches saxophone, chamber music, and music theory. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota (BM, saxophone), where she also earned her Master of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance. A student of Eugene Rousseau and the recipient of the prestigious Berneking Fellowship, she served as Saxophone Instructor (elective studio instruction) and Assistant to Professor Rousseau while at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she has served as a member of the faculty for the Eugene Rousseau Saxophone Workshop at Shell Lake Arts Center in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. Anna Marie is currently completing her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the University of Minnesota.

A Yamaha Performing Artist-Clinician, Ms. Wytko has performed throughout the United States, and in Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Mexico. Recent concerts include a performance of Karel Husa’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band with the Kansas State University Symphony Band, and solo concerts at the seventh annual Eugene Rousseau International Saxophone Master Class featuring the music of Chilean composer Juan Orrego-Salas. Additionally, Anna Marie presented performances as guest soloist with the Kansas State University Concert Band in conjunction with the Kansas Music Educators Association, the Kansas State University Symphony Orchestra, in which she presented the December 2006 world premiere performance of composer Craig Weston’s Elegy and Dance (solo saxophone and orchestra), a work dedicated to Anna Marie, and as guest soloist with band at the American Band College in Medford, Oregon. She has performed guest artist recitals at the sixth annual Eugene Rousseau International Saxophone Master Class, at the Shell Lake Arts Center (Shell Lake, Wisconsin), in Szczecin, Poland as one of only two American guest artists invited to perform at the IV Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Saksofonowy, and in Vancouver, B.C. A passionate chamber musician, Anna Marie performs frequently as a member of the highly acclaimed Joseph Wytko Saxophone Quartet.

During 2004, Anna Marie was selected as winner of the 2004 Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition and was the First Place Prize Winner of the Symphony of the West Valley 25th Annual Jennings Butterfield Young Artist Competition. Ms. Wytko has performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference (Iowa City), World Saxophone Congress (Minneapolis), at the Congreso Internacional de Clarinete y Saxofón in Acapulco, Mexico, and as soloist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the West Valley, the Encore Wind Ensemble (MN), the North Suburban Concert Band (MN), the Kansas State University Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas State University Symphony Band, and the Kansas State University Concert Band. In April of 2004, she presented the world premiere performance of composer Greg A Steinke’s Expressions II—On the Paintings of Wassily Kandinsky (2 saxophones, 2 percussion, piano), a work written for and dedicated to Anna Marie and her father, saxophonist Joseph Wytko. She has also performed as orchestral saxophonist with the Orquesta Sinfónica UANL in Monterrey, Mexico, under French conductor Olivier Grangean, and serves as orchestral saxophonist with the Minnesota Orchestra, performing under such conductors as Osmo Vanska.

During Spring 2008, Anna Marie will travel as soloist with the Kansas State University Symphony Orchestra for performances in England and Scotland, and will travel to Iowa City as a guest artist for the Iowa Bandmasters Conference. Additionally, she will perform as soloist with the Kansas State University Clarinet Choir, as orchestral saxophonist with the Musicfest Festival Orchestra (Arizona), and present chamber music concerts at Kansas State University, the University of Minnesota, North Central University (Minnesota), the Kerr Cultural Center (Arizona), and the Tubac Center for the Arts (Arizona).