Welcome to Magpie Concerts!
Originally founded as the Magpie Duo (violin + piano), Magpie Concerts develops community around contemporary music in the neighborhoods of upper Manhattan and beyond by presenting programs that intertwine music from across generational and cultural lines. Named after the bird long known in Western folklore for its obsessive and curious trinket-collecting, our concerts draw from a wide array of stylistic periods, weaving together works from disparate eras of music making while continuously circling back to the contemporary form of our craft.
Like the composers we program, we find ourselves grappling with the history of the classical concert music canon and the ways in which it needs to expand. Through our programs, we aim to bring forth new collections of concert music, ones that are distinctive and vibrant, sometimes disruptive and other times restorative.
Our hope is for our listeners to experience the expressiveness of our art form through the conversation all artists participate in when they create work: the story of history, both musical and human.
Learn More: https://magpieduo.org/about