CARRICO, Makenna

Makenna Carrico, now professionally known as Makenna Bach, is an American composer and cellist based in Portland, Oregon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in film composition from the Seattle Film Institute, where she studied with composer Hummie Mann.
Her work includes orchestral and choral music as well as scores for films, podcasts and video games. In 2016, she composed a choral work using texts from Jon Krakauer’s book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Her orchestral composition Chocolate was premiered by the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra in 2018. She also composed and conducted As the Clouds Become Shapes, recorded by an ensemble of fifty-two musicians as the final project for her master’s degree.
Bach has written music for the podcasts I Talk to Ghosts and Odd Tonic, the video game Orbitroids, and several short films. Alongside her compositional work, she performs as a cellist with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.