Strum for string orchestra (2006, rev. 2012) 8'
string orchestra minimum string count: 3/3/3/2/1
commissioned by Community MusicWorks; revision by the Sphinx Organization
Upcoming PerformancesPerformance HistoryPressRecordings
Upcoming Performances SR Berwaldhallen Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, Stockholm, Sweden Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC, United States Bowral Memorial Hall 24 Bendooley St, Bowral, NSW, Australia The Maryland Theatre 21 S Potomac St, Hagerstown, MD, United States St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 2499 Helen St N North, St Paul, MN, United States Her Majesty's Theatre 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Neumann Auditorium 100 Wartburg Blvd, Waverly, IA, United States Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie St, Greensboro, NC, United States Kamloops Alliance Church 200 Leigh Road, Kamloops, BC, Canada Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts 251 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL, United States The Studio at Mizner Park 201 W Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL, United States Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Charleston Symphony performs Strum
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Steel City Strings performs Strum
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Maryland Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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East Metro Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs Strum and Starburst
Wartburg Community Symphony performs Strum
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Greensboro Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Kamloops Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Montgomery Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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The Symphonia performs Strum
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Omaha Symphony performs Strum
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Performance History Crescent Arts Centre 525 Wardlaw Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Hertz Concert Hall 101 Cross-Sproul Path, Berkleley, CA, United States Greenfield Hall 130 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY, United States Southern Theatre 21 E Main St, Columbus, OH, United States Blue Ridge Community College 49 East Campus Dr, Flat Rock, NC, United States Grace Farms 365 Lukes Wood Road, New Canaan, CT, United States Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center 226 N High Street, West Chester, PA, United States RiverView Theater 600 Clyde Fant Pkwy, Shreveport, LA, United States Japan Tour Davies Symphony Hall 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States Kennedy Center 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC, United States Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, ID, United States Minnesota Orchestra Hall 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN, United States WWU Performing Arts Center 516 High St, Bellingham, WA, United States The Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Ypsilanti Freighthouse 100 Market Pl, Ypsilanti, MI, United States Addison Conference and Theatre Center 15650 Addison Rd, Addison, TX, United States Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States Centenary United Methodist Church 2800 Tates Creek Road, Lexington, KY, United States Scarsdale Congregational Church 1 Heathcote Rd, Scarsdale, NY, United States Orpheum Theater 57 S Kellogg St, Galesburg, IL, United States Lassiter Concert Hall 2601 Shallowford Road, Marietta, GA, United States 918 Bathurst 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, Canada Ockelbo Kyrka 816 30, Ockelbo, Sweden Reynolds Auditorium 301 N. Hawthorne Rd., Winston-Salem, NC, United States Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 Exeter Rd, Germantown, TN, United States Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States Ambassador Auditorium 131 S St John Ave, Pasadena, CA, United States First Presbyterian Church (Hilton Head) 540 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island, SC, United States Lensic Performaning Arts Center 211 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM Frauenthal Center 425 W Western Ave STE 200, Muskegon, MI, United States Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts 300 Water Street, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL, United States Multiple locations in southern Scotland and northen England Touhill Performing Arts Center 1 Touhill Circle, St. Louis, MO, United States Sibelius Hall Ankkurikatu 7, Lahti, Finland Muliple locations in the Netherlands Saint Paul’s Syracuse 220 East Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY, United States The Rady Shell 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, United States Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King St W, Kingston, ON, Canada Racine Memorial Hall 72 7th St, Racine, WI, United States Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 1 Paul Shaffer Dr, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6C7, Canada Berliner Philharmonie Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, Berlin, Germany Multiple locations in Maryland and Deleware Piedmont Park Oak Hill 371 10th St NE, Atlanta, GA, United States Gardner Theatre 725 Hamilton Road, Lancaster, PA, United States Kotkan konserttitalo Keskuskatu 33, Kotka, Finland Barossa Arts Centre 130 Magnolia Rd, Tanunda, SA, Australia O'Reilly Theater 621 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States Silver Center for the Arts (Plymouth State University) 114 Main St, Plymouth, NH, United States Dollar Bank ain Stage Stanwix Street and Ft. Duquesne Boulevard Intersection, Pittsburgh, PA, United States Brattleboro Music Center 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, United States Wesley United Methodist Church 114 W Broadway St, Winona, MN, United States L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center 1002 Sam Nixon Dr, Pocatello, ID, United States Chenery Auditorium 714 S Westnedge Ave, Kalamazoo, MI, United States Ozinga Chapel at Trinity Christian College 6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, United States Vaasa City Hall Senaatinkatu 1, Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland George Washington Masonic Memorial 101 Callahan Dr, Alexandria, VA, United States Minnesota Orchestra Hall 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN, United States Boettcher Concert Hall Denver Performing Arts Complex 1000 14th Street, Denver, CO, United States Vert Auditorium 480 Southwest Dorion Avenue, Pendleton, United States La Casa De Cristo Church 6300 E. Bell Rd, Scottsdale, AZ, United States Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London, United Kingdom Merkin Concert Hall 129 W 67th St., New York, NY Catalina Foothills High School 4300 E Sunrise Dr, Tucson, AZ, United States Long Center for the Performing Arts 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX Holy Rosary Cathedral 2104 Garnet St, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London, United Kingdom Sala São Paulo Praça Júlio Prestes, 16 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo, Brazil Heinz Hall 600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States Kimmel Center 300 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA Yavapai College Performing Arts Center 1100 East Sheldon St., Prescott, AZ, United States Boettcher Concert Hall Denver Performing Arts Complex 1000 14th Street, Denver, CO, United States Windsor Castle Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom Gershwin Performing Arts Center 24801 Monroe Ave, Murietta, CA Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Nagaoka Lyric Hall 3 Chome-1356-6 Senshu, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan Frankling Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens 1777 E Broad St, Columbus, OH, United States St. Mary of the Assumption 1505 White Pine Canyon Rd, Park City, UT Wintergreen Resort 39 Mountain Inn Loop, Nellysburg, Virginia Venetian Theater at Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536 Davies Symphony Hall 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States Church of the Covenant 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, United States Catalina Foothills High School 4300 E Sunrise Dr, Tucson, AZ, United States Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra performs Strum
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UC Berkeley Philharmonia Orchestra performs Strum
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Manhattan School of Music presents Strum
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ProMusica Chamber Orchestra performs Strum
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Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Strum
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Kennett Symphony of Chester County performs Strum
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Shreveport Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Strum on Japan Tour
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San Francisco Symphony performs Starburst and Strum
National Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Sun Valley Music Festival presents Strum
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Minnesota Orchestra performs Strum
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Bellingham Festival of Music performs Strum
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Strum
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Voce Velata performs Strum
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Plano Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Omaha Symphony performs Strum
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Lexington Chamber Orchestra performs Strum
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Erehwon Ensemble performs Strum
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Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performs Strum
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Georgia Philharmonic performs Strum
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Canadian Chamber Orchestra performs Strum
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Gävle Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Winston-Salem Symphony performs Strum
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Iris Collective performs Strum
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Serenade in the Wind (Portland Youth Philharmonic performs Strum)
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String Orchestra of Brooklyn performs Strum
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Pasadena Symphony performs Strum
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Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Santa Fe Pro Musica performs Strum
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West Michigan Symphony performs Strum
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Jacksonville Symphony performs Strum
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra performs Strum
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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BRASS WITH BRAWN (Lahti Symphony Orchestra performs Strum)
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Sinfonia Rotterdam performs Strum
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Symphonia performs Strum
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San Diego Symphony performs Strum
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Kingston Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Racine Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester performs Strum
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Mid-Atlantic Symphony performs Strum
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs Strum (Concerts in the Park)
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Lancaster Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Kymi Sinfonietta performs Strum
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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Spring into Summer (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs Strum)
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Strum at New Hampshire Music Festival
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs Strum (Three Rivers Arts Festival)
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Heaven’s Border (Juno Orchestra performs Strum)
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Winona Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Manhattan Skyline (Idaho State-Civic Symphony performs Strum)
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Family Discovery! (Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra performs Strum)
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SOARING STRINGS: An Orchestral Celebration of Matthew Mantell (Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra performs Strum)
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The Land of Opportunity (Vaasa City Orchestra performs Strum)
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Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic performs Strum
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Minnesota Orchestra plays Strum
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Lift Every Voice Youth Concert (Colorado Symphony performs Strum)
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Some Like It Scot! (Oregon East Symphony performs Strum)
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Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra performs Strum
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London Mozart Players perform Strum
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Strings of Modus Operandi Orchestra perform Starburst and Strum
Tucson Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Austin Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Regina Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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The Philharmonia Orchestra (UK) performs Strum
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Sphinx Virtuosi performs Strum and Divided with Tommy Mesa, cello at Sala São Paulo
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Sphinx Virtuosi performs Strum and Divided with Tommy Mesa, cello | Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Arizona Philharmonic performs Strum
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Colorado Symphony performs Strum
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Philharmonia Orchestra (UK) performs Strum
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California Chamber Orchestra performs Strum and Records from a Vanishing City
Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt performs Strum
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Affinis Festival Orchestra (Japan) performs Strum
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ProMusica Columbus performs Strum
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Utah Symphony Orchestra performs Strum at Deer Valley
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Wintergreen Music Festival performs Strum
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Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs Strum at Caramoor
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San Francisco Symphony performs Strum
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Orchestra Without Borders Boston performs Strum
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Tucson Symphony Orchestra performs Strum
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Los Angeles Philharmonic performs Strum
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Press
Review: Omega Ensemble’s vibrant virtuosos dance the night away
By Steve Moffatt
Published June 22, 2023
The Daily Telegraph
“The dance theme of the evening got off to a lively start with Strum, a folk music inspired work by New York composer Jessie Montgomery, its title coming from the…
Review: Ecstatic Dances (Omega Ensemble)
By Hugo Mathers
Published June 22, 2023
Limelight
“The evening began with Montgomery’s Strum, an all-strings affair, with plucked and strummed violins producing stunning layers of rhythmic and harmonic ostinati. Having grown up on New York’s Lower East…
Recordings
Dancing Circles in the Night
Artist: Mimesis Ensemble
Release Date: October 1, 2020
Label: Arabesque Records