Maggie Cox

Maggie Cox is a double bassist from Northeast Ohio. Maggie is currently pursuing a post-baccalaureate certificate at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer. She recently graduated from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she was a student of Paul Ellison. 

A lover of new music and unconventional performances, Maggie has performed with the Houston-based ensembles KINETIC and Loop38. In December 2020, Maggie presented a recital of new works for double bass written by women as part of the Illuminate Women’s Music digital concert series. Maggie’s junior recital included the Houston premieres of both Ondas, by Sonia Ray, and Pantomime, by Sofia Gubaidalina. In 2018, as a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, Maggie premiered Timothy Higgins’ Nursery Crimes, performing alongside soprano Deborah Voigt. 

Maggie is a passionate advocate for a more equitable society, in the music world and beyond. While at Rice, Maggie earned a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. As a student in the PJHC program, Maggie organized a series of benefit concerts called Artists for Action, bringing together musicians of all genres and backgrounds for an evening of music and community engagement. Maggie is a co-founder of PAGE (the Petition for All Gender Equity) and led the first-ever panel discussion on gender and double bass at the 2018 International Society of Bassists convention at Indiana University. She has been featured on Jason Heath’s Contrabass Conversations podcast, and co-authored the controversial 2018 article, “Why ‘bass boiz’ Isn’t Funny”. 

Maggie has spent her summers at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Music Festival, Domaine Forget International Academy, and the Wabass Institute, and has played under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Andris Nelsons, Stephen Deneve, Elim Chan, Thomas Ades, and Larry Rachleff. Her teachers and mentors have included Hal Robinson, Edgar Meyer, Paul Ellison, Tim Pitts, Tracy Rowell, Henry Peyrebrune, and Bryan Thomas