Montgomery’s impressive range of recent premieres also includes multiple concerti – DIVIDED (2022) for cellist Thomas Mesa and Sphinx Virtuosi, Rounds for pianist Awadagin Pratt (2021), and L.E.S. Recent highlights include Hymn for Everyone (2021), her first commission as Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, co- commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and Music Academy of the West Five Freedom Songs, a song cycle conceived with and written for Soprano Julia Bullock, for Sun Valley and Grand Teton Music Festivals, San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, and the Virginia Arts Festival (2021) I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a site-specific collaboration withīard SummerScape and Pam Tanowitz Dance (2021) Shift, Change, Turn (2019) commissioned by Orpheus and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Banner (2014), written to mark the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner” for The Sphinx Organization and the Joyce Foundation, and presented in its UK premiere at the 2021 BBC Proms. Her growing body of work includes solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works, as well as collaborations with distinguished choreographers and dance companies. In July 2021, she began a three-year appointment as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence. ![]() Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life'“ ( The Washington Post) and are performed regularly by leading orchestras and ensembles around the world. Jessie Montgomery, Musical America's 2023 Composer of the Year, is a GRAMMY-nominated, acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator whose music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness, making her an acute interpreter of twenty-first century American sound and experience.
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