Mary Prescott is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, composer and pianist based in Minneapolis and New York City who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. She aims to foster understanding and create pathways for change by voicing emotional and human truths through artistic investigation and dissemination.

Prescott’s output includes several large-scale interdisciplinary works, improvised music, opera, sound journaling, solo and chamber concert works. Featured in “21 for ‘21: Composers and Performers Who Sound Like Tomorrow,” The Washington Post describes her work as “a bright light cast forward… uncompromising,” and “masterfully envisioned.”

Prescott is an awardee of the McKnight Composer Fellowship; the National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund; the Princess Grace Award; an American Composers Forum Create Commission; The American Opera Project Composers and the Voice Fellowship; an Opera America New Works Forum Grant; a Puffin Foundation Grant; and many more. She has been commissioned by Roulette Intermedium, Public Functionary, The Great Northern Festival, White Snake Projects, The American Opera Project, Living Arts of Tulsa, Shepherdess Duo, Metropolis Ensemble, Duo Harmonia and others. Her residencies include The Camargo Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lanesboro Arts, Hudson Hall, Areté Venue and Gallery, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Arts Letters and Numbers, Chautauqua Opera, and others. Prescott was a 2022 Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Artist, and a 2023 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist.

Prescott currently sits on the board of the National Performance Network, and further invests in strengthening the artist community through her involvement with Artists U and Sanguine Arts.

She holds piano performance degrees from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, and Manhattan School of Music.

Mary Prescott is a Steinway Artist.