Orchid McRae

Orchid McRae is a percussionist and composer based in New York, working across notated music, free improvisation and mixed media. She plays drums and percussion in the collaborative trio Dot Iso alongside violinist Vivek Menon and guitarist and saxophonist Dylan DelGiudice, a group documented on live recordings made at the Living Gallery in 2023 and at Downtown Music Gallery in 2024. Her projects also include the quartet orchiddBB. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she studied jazz composition, and has worked in arts administration at Chamber Music America since joining the organization in 2018.