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Composer Portraits

Jessie Montgomery

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 7:30PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
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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.

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photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre
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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 by Peter Adamik 160x240
    Alicia Hall Moran mezzo-soprano
  • Jesse Montgomery 160x240
    Jessie Montgomery violin
  • Dana Kelley 160x240
    Dana Kelley viola
  • Pascal Le Boeuf by Ritual Being 160x240
    Pascal Le Boeuf piano
  • The Everything Band
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Presented with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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