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.

Jessie Montgomery by Rob Davidson 960x1446 — photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre

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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 mezzo-soprano
Jessie Montgomery violin
Dana Kelley viola
The Everything Band

Presented with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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