“At this point, Jessie Montgomery’s Strum (2006) is perhaps an early candidate for ‘classic,’ given the frequency of performances, and the Dover found immense pleasure in its gutsy textures and…
“Jessie Montgomery’s Loisaida, for soprano/cello duet and chorus is a vibrant love song for Loisaida, a neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Montgomery set the “Loisaida” text, written by poet, educator…
“PUBLIQuartet will perform a program made up entirely of Montgomery’s works. Now serving as Hancher’s 2024—2025 composer-in-residence, Montgomery also will perform in the concert. They’ve woven some of her works…
“The concert commenced with Jessie Montgomery’s Voodoo Dolls, which vibrates with rhythmic energy and thematic folk influences. Inspired by her experiences in New Orleans, Voodoo Dolls was commissioned in 2008 and choreographed…
“Artistic director and pianist Kimi Kawashima has scored one of the season’s most anticipated offerings with a concert highlighting works by Jessie Montgomery, who won the Grammy for best contemporary…
“The Dover Quartet graced Guarneri Hall for the first Nova Linea Musica experience. They are Joel Link on violin, Bryan Lee on violin, Julianne Lee on viola, and Camden Shaw…
“Local audiences can get a feel for those ideas at the Boston Symphony Chamber Players’s first concert of the 2024-25 season, on Sept. 29. The program focuses on music by…
“Montgomery takes a multilayered approach to her interpretation of the anthem, stitching its melodies into a patchwork of a dozen other work songs, folk songs, freedom songs and anthems of…
“It cannot be denied that what we heard on Saturday night was an immediately and persistently engaging work for piano and strings that was rhythmically vital, melodically attractive and emotionally…
The National Symphony Orchestra soft-launches its 94th season at the Kennedy Center on Sept. 14 with “Echoes of America: Music of Carlos Simon, Aaron Copland & Jessie Montgomery,” featuring bass-baritone Morris Robinson…
This season aims to champion those who use their art to stand up against injustice and inspire action. Concerts will feature works by prominent Black American composers that confront the…
“My favorite part of Jessie Montgomery’s “Space” movement was in the middle, a slow section that brought to mind the isolation of space. Bell’s slow artificial harmonics, played solo like…
“Being a composer is a solitary gig, even in the best of times. And that feeling of isolation can be exacerbated for people of color working in classical music’s predominantly…
Juilliard’s Feb 12 Composer Spotlight highlights Jessie Montgomery’s chamber music as part of her residency as an Arnhold Creative Associate
“The inimitable chamber orchestra The Knights concluded their three-concert residency at Carnegie Hall with an innovative programme that ‘lean[ed] into familial and intergenerational connections’, according to Knights violin soloist and…
“Bell savvily selected composers whose styles naturally mesh. One of the composer quinquevirate, Jessie Montgomery, said of The Elements, “It still flows as a piece. It’s all American composers, and I…
“Premiering Aug. 1 as part of Ravinia Festival in Chicago, African Queens features new songs by eight leading Black composers: Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter, Jessie Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, Carlos Simon, Will Liverman, and Joel Thompson. The…
“Jessie Montgomery’s moving Hymn for Everyone from 2021 surely offended no one. Its pleasingly lush textures find the composer responding to a world reeling from both social upheaval and the Covid pandemic.…
“The evening’s highlight was Jessie Montgomery’s Five Freedom Songs, written in 2017-18 for soprano, string orchestra and percussion. In her setting of five spirituals, Montgomery supports the original tunes with…
“Montgomery’s “Records From a Vanishing City” references the literal record collection of the family friend to whom it is dedicated. Thus, its musical surface is constantly swirling with unexpected colors…
