Home Search
Jessie Montgomery - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
Muti, Chicago SO Select Jessie Montgomery As Composer In Residence
CHICAGO – Given this city's diverse musical heritage, ranging from European classicism to the Great Migration, music director Riccardo Muti's choice of an African American woman comes as a notable next step for the Chicago Symphony.
Diving Into Opera, Jessie Montgomery Gains A Foothold
By Angela Allen
PROFILE – Composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery, who's co-arranging the music for a new production of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha led by a team of African-American women, is finding that her distinctive vibe is in demand.
Knights Premiere Reconceived Montgomery
The world premiere of a new orchestration for violin and chamber orchestra by Michi Wiancko of Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 2 will open the...
Bullock debuts Montgomery opus>>
July 26-Aug. 19: Full details
Headlining this summer’s 37th installment of the Sun Valley Music Festival is the Aug. 7 world premiere of Jessie Montgomery's...
Elemental Recipe Was Not Easy: 5 Composers, Violinist, New York Phil
NEW YORK – The U.S. premiere of The Elements – the work of Kevin Puts, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, and Jessie Montgomery – saw all five present to hear violinist Joshua Bell and the Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden.
Finding Musical Grace In Depths Of Slavery’s Middle-Passage Horror
CHICAGO – Transfigure to Grace, Jessie Montgomery's fully orchestrated reworking of her 2019 ballet Passage, received its world premiere by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where she is composer in residence.
1921 Tulsa Massacre Memorialized In Music By 4 Black Composers
NEW YORK – The concert titled Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021 featured works by Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, Trevor Weston, and Alice Coltrane, whose Prema, transcribed from piano to harp, drew on the jazz tradition.
Concert As Storytelling: Others May Play Notes, Parlando Conjures Tales
NEW YORK – Ian Niederhoffer wants classical music to survive and flourish. That's why he founded the string orchestra Parlando, now in its fourth season, an ensemble that uses historical narrative to ensure connection with its audience.
Heyward Closes First Baltimore Season
To close out his inaugural season as music director of the Baltimore Symphony on June 13-16, Jonathon Heyward conducts a new work by James...
Honeck Leads Dougherty Concerto Premiere
In a program entitled Darkness to Light on June 7-9, 2024, the Pittsburgh Symphony will open with Jessie Montgomery’s 2017 piece Coincident Dances, celebrating...
A Simpatico Pair Meet Again In Gershwin, But It Don’t Mean A Thing
LOS ANGELES – Russian-German pianist Igor Levit and Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan had partnered happily before, but their reunion in the semi-classical, semi-jazz Concerto in F with the LA Philharmonic was not a swinging affair.
Heggie’s Opera Bounty And Diversity Mirrored In Swell Of Productions
PERSPECTIVE – As the Met Opera unveils an impressive take on Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, other companies are cueing works by this lyrical and resourceful composer who keeps pushing to bring new perspectives to his art.
Euphoniums, Tubas And Flutes, Oh My How This Music Fest Is Growing
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Under music director Gerard Schwarz, the Eastern Music Festival has evolved from an orchestral and chamber music program to embrace educational experiences for young musicians and offer far-ranging repertoire.
As Tanglewood Opens, Boston Symphony Casts A Spotlight On Diversity
LENOX, Mass. – In its first programs of the 2023 summer festival, the orchestra led by Latvian music director Andris Nelsons offered works by Iranian Canadian and African American composers, along with core repertoire favorites.
Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha’ Revived In Canada With A Freshening Makeover
TORONTO – The opera has not won a firm place in the repertoire, but the Luminato Festival and TO Live presented the premiere of an effort by a mostly Black and female creative team to broaden its musical palette and strengthen its narrative.
In Chicago Symphony’s Celebration Of Women, Augury Of Sea Change
PERSPECTIVE – Julia Wolfe's fierce and exultant oratorio Her Story, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble led by Marin Alsop, capped CSO weeks that have defined the concert hall ascendancy of women.
The Everlasting Fight For Women’s Equality: An American Oratorio
PERSPECTIVE – Conductor Marin Alsop, who will lead a Chicago Symphony presentation of Julia Wolfe's Her Story, a multimedia work dealing with the generations-long struggle, reflects on the concert drama's import in politically frayed times.
At Perfecting Church, Perfect Flow Between Orchestra, Community
DETROIT – Concert norms went out the window, but energy surged in when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra visited a neighborhood church, embracing its choir, congregation, and kids with a program spanning William Tell and the Supremes.
Barrier-Breaking Alsop Hands Baton To Women In A Festival Showcase
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – Conductor Marin Alsop, who had to blaze her own career path in the 1980s, now boosts a younger generation of women conductors. Several performed at the Ravinia Festival's first "Breaking Barriers" event.
Voices Of The Enslaved Resound In Multimedia Showcase Of Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO – A memorable display of racial and gender inclusion was offered in soprano Julia Bullock's project "History's Persistent Voice," works by five women of color played by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Christian Reif.
