Mackenzie Bykowski is a New York City–based vocal technician with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and an Advanced Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. He specializes in working with singers recovering from vocal injury, drawing on his own experience with vocal surgery to offer empathetic, evidence-based support. He collaborates closely with laryngologists and speech-language pathologists to ensure each client is guided by a full-circle care team.
His teaching is rooted in a holistic, science-informed approach that incorporates the methodologies of Doscher, Estill, Alexander Technique, Stemple, Titze, Resonant Voice Therapy, and Christine Schneider’s Spherical Body Movement. Through this integrated framework, Mackenzie helps singers cultivate physical freedom, emotional connection, and technical reliability.
Before entering the voice field, Mackenzie coached competitive gymnastics for over a decade—a background that continues to shape his understanding of performance, physical coordination, and resilience. He is an associate teacher at Mike Ruckles Voice Studio and serves as the Vocal Tech Department Head for Musical Theatre College Auditions.
"If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the voice is its song."
-Kristen Callihan
My passion and purpose is the voice, and I find joy in helping others heal, release, and expand their voice and speaking potential. I have over a decade of experience collaborating with various speakers and voice users, including singers, actors, voice over artists, news anchors, public speakers, CEOs, radio hosts, and more. I apply evidence-based practices combined with holistic principles to create individualized experiences for each of my clients. My personal experience as a singer with a voice injury provided me with empathy and drive to rehabilitate others’ voices and affirm their identities, and to train future speech-language pathologists to develop their clinical identities.
I am an ASHA-certified and New York State licensed speech-language pathologist. As a dual alumna of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, I earned a Master of Science from the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. I am certified and trained in LSVT, videostroboscopy, PhoRTE, and PROMPT and am a member of ASHA (Sig. 3, Voice and Upper Airway Disorders), The Voice Foundation, VASTA, PAVA, WPATH, and the New York Voice Study Group.
I currently hold a full-time position as Clinical Associate Professor in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. I previously held a part-time position as a Clinical Voice Specialist at NYU Langone Health's Rusk Rehabilitation and have served as a per diem voice therapist at NYU Langone Health's Rusk Rehabilitation and Voice Center.