MAGGIE CARTER: PYP’S 2022 CONCERTO COMPETITION WINNER

Posted on January 23, 2023

PYP bassist and 2022 Concerto Competition winner Maggie Carter will perform Frank Proto’s A Carmen Fantasy with the Philharmonic Orchestra on March 4, 2023. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Maggie perform live!

ABOUT MAGGIE

16-year-old double bassist Maggie Carter is passionate about sharing the power and beauty of music with her audiences and bringing the unexplored sonority of the double bass as a solo instrument into the spotlight. She first because enamored with the double bass at the age of four, received her first instrument at age nine, and currently studies with Jordan Anderson, Principal Bass of the Seattle Symphony.

Maggie’s competition successes include first prize at the 2019 International Society of Bassists 14-and-under Solo Competition, the 2020 Oregon Mozart Players Young Soloists Competition, the 2021 Oregon ASTA Solo Competition, and runner-up in the 2019 and 2021 PYP Concerto Competition.  Maggie was also honored to be selected as All Classical Portland’s 2022 Young Artist in Residence, a pivotal experience which allowed her to reach a wider audience and mature her artistic goals, and she will be featured as the soloist in the Oregon Symphony’s Young People’s Concerts in February 2023.  Maggie’s other teachers and mentors include Nina DeCesare, Braizahn Jones, Ira Gold, Brian Perry, and Sam Suggs, and she has been privileged to perform for double bassists such as Edgar Meyer, Paul Ellison, François Rabbath, and John Clayton, among many others.

Maggie also enjoys performing in orchestral settings and has been the principal bassist of the Portland Youth Philharmonic since 2019.  She has participated in orchestral training programs such as the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Interlochen Arts Camp, and NYO2 National Youth Orchestra.  Additionally, she has performed in the bass sections of the Oregon Symphony and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.

Currently a home-educated junior, Maggie hopes to pursue music performance in a conservatory setting after high school.  Also a pianist since the age of eight, she studies with Maria Garcia and is inspired by the complexity and versatility that piano offers.  Outside of music she enjoys immersing herself in the art of cake baking and decoration, camping and hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and hanging out with her three siblings.