Named after Jessie Montgomery for her life-long affiliation with the Chamber Music Center community, the CMC offers two scholarships designated for students from underrepresented communities.
Released July 28, the latest Sphinx Virtuosi album includes Jessie Montgomery’s “Divided” with cellist Tommy Mesa. Now available for streaming and digital downloads.
The latest Chicago Symphony Orchestra Resound album includes Jessie Montgomery’s “Hymn for Everyone.” Now available for streaming and digital downloads.
“Jessie Montgomery and Jannina Norpoth’s fresh orchestrations for this production are the first to meet Joplin’s music on its own terms, creating a sound that blends a variety of styles.”
“The split between identities – American, African, daughter, lover, God-fearing, nature-loving – and the anguish resulting from such divides holds much of the power of this reimagined Treemonisha.”
Treemonisha, orchestrated and arranged by Jessie Montgomery and Jannina Norpoth, premieres June 6th-June 17th at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto.
On July 9th, Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program including works by Brahms, Habibi and Montgomery featuring Julia Bullock, soprano and Hilary Hahn, violin
Orchestra collective The Knights perform L.E.S. Characters with violist Masumi Per Rostad at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, June 27th. Listen to the recording on WQXR.
“Transfigure to Grace made plain what Chicago audiences already know: Montgomery is behind some of the most idiomatic and irresistible string writing being penned right now.”
Riccardo Muti conducts the world premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Transfigure to Grace with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra May 11 – May 16