The music of composer Jessie Montgomery is “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (The Washington Post), and is performed regularly by leading orchestras and ensembles around the globe. Winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition and Musical America’s 2023 Composer of the Year, the Juilliard-trained violinist is immersed in a diverse range of projects, including The Everything Band—eight composer-performers of varied stylistic backgrounds creating music by experimentation, improvisation, and open-ended form. Montgomery performs alongside the ensemble for this Portrait, featuring a newly commissioned work and the hauntingly beautiful Source Code for string quartet.

Repertoire

Jessie Montgomery Everything, All at Once (2025)
WORLD PREMIERE Miller Theatre commission

Jessie Montgomery Lunar Songs (2019)

Jessie Montgomery Loisaida, My Love (2016)

Jessie Montgomery Break Away (2013)

Jessie Montgomery Source Code for string quartet (2013)

Performers

Alicia Hall Moran mezzo-soprano

Jessie Montgomery violin

Dana Kelley viola

Pascal Le Boeuf piano

The Everything Band