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.

June 28, 2026