“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…
“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 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…
“What sets Montgomery’s own music apart from so many of her antecedents as well as peers is how deeply immersed she has been for most of her life in the…
“The program opens with Strum by 2024 GRAMMY-winning composer, violinist and educator Jessie Montgomery, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s current Mead Composer-in-Residence, who has been affiliated with the Sphinx Organization since…
“I love Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” because I can find myself in it. The way it searches and shifts, changing colors and textures; the way the second violin and viola join…
“On “Strum” (2006), which opens with an instantly unforgettable plucked violin part, their 20 rhythmic strings filled every corner and cranny of the Sheldon. In this intimate setting with such…
