"A gasp was heard in the hall last night as Mark & Maggie O'Connor took the stage. Maggie O looked stunning, played beautifully!"
"Mark O'Connor, Maggie O'Connor, Michael Christie and our orchestra are all magnificent. Join us for our most popular concert (so far) this season!"
-Santa Rosa Symphony
"As a technician and as an expressive player, she is formidable, has it all. What I find so special about her, apart from the sheer soulfulness abundant in the music she makes, is her uncanny sense of playing off of and with Mark, knowing when to assert herself and when to be empathetic and supportive."
- David McGee, Deep Roots Magazine
Read review of "Duo" here
"Coming Home is a warm and lively acoustic music event. Mark O’Connor has managed to discover and reveal some very high level and intriguing new talent - within his own family!"
- Bela Fleck
Read about O'Connor Band here
Maggie O'Connor, Violinist and American Fiddler
Violinist and American fiddler Maggie O'Connor is a Grammy Award winning musician who frequently performs in a duo with her husband, violinist and composer Mark O’Connor. The duo successfully concluded a live weekly virtual show titled "Mondays with Mark and Maggie", in which the two performed and shared stories about their musical experiences and feature special guests that have included Bela Fleck, Rachel Barton Pine, Máiréad Nesbitt, Jonathan Wilson, Xavier Foley, Darrell Scott, and more for 70 weeks in a row during the Covid 19 pandemic. With a unique background in both traditional classical violin training and American musical styles, Maggie continues her mission to show that violinists can and should participate in everything the instrument has to offer. Along with performing, Maggie continues to work as co-director and a teacher with her husband at O'Connor Method String Camps featuring the lesson book series that is rising in popularity each year. Maggie is also a visual artist and jewelry artisan, linking her two worlds by creating violin peg necklaces to raise funds for scholarships at the camps, providing about ten scholarships a year for students in need. Her paintings and other artworks are greatly inspired by the intersection of music, nature, and the imagination.
Maggie and her husband’s first recording project together is titled "Duo," in which, according to David McGee of "Deep Roots Magazine," "standing toe-to-toe with Mark O’Connor at the altar is one thing; doing it when he has a fiddle in his hands quite another. Maggie has been impressing critics and fans alike for some time now but working with her new husband, and appearing with him on this album, is going to vault her into the front ranks of American violinists…As a technician and as an expressive player, she is formidable, has it all. What I find so special about her, apart from the sheer soulfulness abundant in the music she makes, is her uncanny sense of playing off of and with Mark, knowing when to assert herself and when to be empathetic and supportive."
Growing up in Georgia, Maggie learned American musical styles in a family band and various ensembles, and continued her classical studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University where she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in violin performance.
Maggie and her husband’s first recording project together is titled "Duo," in which, according to David McGee of "Deep Roots Magazine," "standing toe-to-toe with Mark O’Connor at the altar is one thing; doing it when he has a fiddle in his hands quite another. Maggie has been impressing critics and fans alike for some time now but working with her new husband, and appearing with him on this album, is going to vault her into the front ranks of American violinists…As a technician and as an expressive player, she is formidable, has it all. What I find so special about her, apart from the sheer soulfulness abundant in the music she makes, is her uncanny sense of playing off of and with Mark, knowing when to assert herself and when to be empathetic and supportive."
Growing up in Georgia, Maggie learned American musical styles in a family band and various ensembles, and continued her classical studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University where she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in violin performance.
Maggie tours with Mark O'Connor. See their performance schedule here.
