Alison Mackay’s performance creations have represented Canada on the world stage for decades. In 2009 her “Galileo Project” was honoured by the International Astronomical Union with the naming of the asteroid “Tafelmusik 197856”  and in 2011, Australia’s Helpmann award for distinguished artistic achievement.  Her ten projects created in international partnerships feature music, narration, and projected images and film and have received over 200 performances across North America, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand with actors speaking English, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. Five of these projects have been made into commercial films which have been broadcast around the world.

Her musical adventure for children, “The Quest for Arundo Donax” won the 2006 Juno for Children’s Album of the Year. Principal double-bass player with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra for forty years, she appears on over 100 CD’s  including nine Juno award winners.  She is the recipient of the 2013 Betty Webster Award from Orchestras Canada for her

contributions to orchestral life in Canada.