Maggie has enjoyed a full and varied career as an educator-performer. After graduating from Northwestern University’s School of Music, Maggie joined the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, performing under renowned conductors, including Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jaap van Zweden.

While in Chicago, Maggie coached the Chicago Symphony Youth Orchestras and performed over 40 chamber music concerts a year at public schools and community centers as a Teaching Artist through the Chicago Symphony’s Institute for Learning Access and Training and was a faculty member at the People’s Music School’s YOURS Project. As a founding member of the Chicago-based Élan String Quartet, Maggie was invited to perform at the Utah Symphony’s Emerging Quartets’ program, collaborated with the Chicago Symphony’s Institute and Chicago Young Authors to create beat poetry and classical music concerts with poets from Englewood High School, and performed the Schubert Cello Quintet with Yo-Yo Ma at the Chicago Symphony’s Citizen Musician Week.

She was Peter Zazofsky’s assistant at BUTI’s String Quartet Workshop before founding the Junior Strings Intensive in 2017. She performs regularly throughout Greater Boston and at Tanglewood, and joined the faculty of New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestra Institute in 2019.