​Born in New York City, Macintyre Taback began his cello studies at age 11 as part of his school's strings program, and continued his education at Juilliard's Pre-College Division.

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Mac is the founder of the Bennetts Point Cello Seminar in Charleston, SC, which will hold its third festival in March of 2026. In addition, he has recently performed at IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Marlboro Music Festival and School, Krzyżowa Music, the Caramoor Institute,  Four Seasons, Yellow Barn, LAMP, and the Kronberg Academy’s “Chamber Music Connects the World”. In October 2025, Mac collaborated with author Jan Swafford and pianist Anna Han on a lecture presentation of Beethoven's A Major Cello Sonata and Eroica Symphony at the Harvard Musical Association, and will tour with Musicians from Marlboro in the '26/27 season. 

He counts among his mentors musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, and the Brentano Quartet, and has collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Augustin Hadelich, Kim Kashkashian, Viviane Hagner, Lawrence Power, Vivian Weilerstein, and Alasdair Beatson, as well as members of the Emerson, Borromeo, Juilliard, Artemis, Doric, Elias, and St. Lawrence String Quartets.

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Mac is the cellist of the Abeo String Quartet, founded at The Juilliard School in 2018. Recent performances have brought Abeo to venues such as the Caramoor Institute, La Jolla SummerFest, Sunday at Central, Music Middays, Emerald City Music, and the ‘25/26 season includes performances at Shriver Concerts in Baltimore, Chesapeake Music, The New School’s Schneider series in NYC, and a residency at the Marlboro Music Festival's Potash Hill campus. 

Mac completed his undergraduate studies in 2021 with Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott at the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Performance Certificate and Harris Cello Prize. He is currently pursuing his DMA at the New England Conservatory under Laurence Lesser, Donald Weilerstein, and Vivian Weilerstein, having completed his Master’s at NEC in 2023. 

 

Mac plays on a cello made by David Tecchler in Rome, 1723 and a bow made by Benoît Rolland in Boston, 2023. 

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