2025–2026 season
7 PM • LIMITS & MEDITATIONS I
Mechanics’ Hall
519 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101
A piano-less program featuring traditional repertoire and John Cage’s Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard for synthesizers.
Sept. 22, 2025
9/22–9/27 • Residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute
6 PM • LIMITS & MEDITATIONS II
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Morton Feldman’s For John Cage presented at Columbia’s Sacred Music Series.
October 16, 2025
7 PM • silent night
Our Saviour’s Atonement Church
178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10040
A surprise popup concert featuring a selection of cozy miniatures from Bach to Britten, Sibelius, and more, including a premiere of Matthew Schultheis’s Nocturnes for solo violin.
January 6, 2026
1/11–1/31 • Residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
7 PM • COMMUNITIES & CONTINUITIES: HERITAGES
Our Saviour’s Atonement Church
178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10040
Magpie Duo’s first ensemble concert, featuring Anoush Pogossian (clarinet) and Celia Morin (viola), presenting a program of works influenced by one another.’s composers, in memory of past mentors, and looking towards canonic styles.
May 29, 2026
7 PM • YARN/WIRE INSTITUTE
Manhattan School of Music, Bossi-Comelli Studio
130 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Magpie Duo presents an expanded version of all is leaf, their co-written work for violin and synthesizers developed at Banff in January.
June 5, 2026
7:30 PM • BLUEBIRD CONCERTS
Five Flies
554 West 158th Street, New York, NY 10032
A popup solo show—Matthew Schultheis plays a synthesizer set from Magpie Duo’s fall 2025 programming.
June 12, 2026
8 PM • MAGPIE FEST (I)
Our Saviour’s Atonement Church
178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10040
A two-part summer showcase of our year in review: presenting Morton Feldman’s For John Cage at our Washington Heights home of OSA Church.
June 20, 2026
8 PM • MAGPIE FEST (II)
Our Saviour’s Atonement Church
178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10040
A two-part summer showcase of our year in review: a new Sunset Concert program.