Maggie O'Leary

Maggie O’Leary, from Claremont, California, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2015 and studies with Daniel Matsukawa, Principal Bassoon of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Maggie is the Louisa Knapp Curtis Fellow and a recipient of the YMF/ASCAP Leiber and Stoller Scholarship. She is currently contrabassoonist with Symphony in C, and has performed in concert with the New World Symphony and Delaware Symphony. Maggie was recently a Finalist and Prizewinner at the 2019 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition. In 2018, Maggie was a Finalist in the Albert M. Greenfield Student Concerto Competition and in 2015 she was a YoungArts finalist and a semifinalist in the Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight Competition. Maggie has been heard on Southern California’s KUSC Radio as a member of the Colburn Honors Woodwind Quintet, the Colburn Youth Orchestra, and the Young Musicians Foundation Debut orchestra, and on NPR’s From the Top. During her summer months and holidays while attending Curtis, Maggie has participated in the Verbier Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Sarasota Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and the Aspen Music Festival and School as a recipient of the Nancy Goeres Bassoon Fellowship. Maggie began playing the bassoon at age 12, and previously studied with Carolyn Beck, Principal Bassoon of the Redlands Symphony and the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra.