Directing, Ensembles & Projects
Sacred Music
Follen Community Church, Lexington, MA, Interim Music Director (Current)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, MA, Director of Music (2013-17)
Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, MA, Director of Klezmer band Shir Chutzpa & Music Staff (2010-present)
First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist, Needham, MA, Director of Music (2003-2012)
Conducting
Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band (eudaimonia-music.org)
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Performance Projects
Dickinson College Collegium, Director, 2004-2005
Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Institute of Music Baroque Orchestra, Director, 2000-2003
Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre, Music Director/Conductor
University of Minnesota, Music Director/Conductor for Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Chamber Ensembles
Cecilia’s Circle (Ccircle.org)
Two decades of residencies and performances centered around the work and lives of early women musicians, from 1991
Adastra, A Period Instrument Duo (adastra)
With baroque and classical violinist Jennifer Roig-Francoli, from 2007
Live performance of Fonata Sonata Terza in Cincinnati
Galhano/Montgomery
Chatham Baroque (chathambaroque.org)
Founding harpsichordist 1991-1993 (then Pittsburgh Early Music Ensemble)
Accordion and Klezmorim
Shir Chutzpa, The Temple Shir Tikva Shabbat Band, Founder and director, 2010-present
Norski Klezmorski, The Northeast Iowa Jewish-American Band, Founder and director, 1996-2000
World premiere’s of John Howell Morrison’s Breathing Memory (2004) and Ember (2009)
Women’s Studies in Music
Cecilia’s Circle (link: ccircle.org)
Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center (link: https://www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/scholars/profiles/montgomery.html
The Women and Music Project (WAMP)
A production engine of the Brandeis WSRC, producing CDS, conferences, and performance events
The Women and Music Mix (WAMMIX)
The Women and Music Mix was initiated at the Women’s Studies Research Center to study the contributions of women to the field of music as composers, performers, teachers, scholars, and sponsors; to bring their work to a wider public through lectures, concerts, conferences, publications and recordings that highlight and explore issues of women and gender. The Women and Music Mix consists of 8 acclaimed Resident Scholars who have committed themselves to advancing women’s music and bringing their pioneering work to a wider public. The group is made up of composer Ruth Lomon, composer/violinist Dana Maiben, conductor/pianist Jane Ring Frank, musicologist/activist Liane Curtis, keyboardist/musicologist Vivian Montgomery, violist da gamba Laury Gutierrez, conductor Amelia LeClair, and music therapist Suzanne Hanser.
Women’s Music in Georgian England
2014 Fulbright Senior Scholar UK Fellowship
Research and recording of work and biography of pianist/composers Martha Greatorex (1759-1829) and Maria Noke White (1784-17260
Women’s Travel Club
In March of 2017, with the support of a grant from the Women’s Travel Club (founded by wives of Harvard professors in the 19th century), I was able to return to the UK to record pieces by my two Georgian pianist composer discoveries, Martha Greatorex and Maria Noke White, on a beautiful 1820 Broadwood grand that belongs to the Finchcocks Collection of Richard and Katrina Burnett.
Descriptions and links to recordings can be found on the Fortepiano page.
Sacred Music
Follen Community Church, Lexington, MA, Interim Music Director (Current)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, MA, Director of Music (2013-17)
Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, MA, Director of Klezmer band Shir Chutzpa & Music Staff (2010-present)
First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist, Needham, MA, Director of Music (2003-2012)
Conducting
Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band (eudaimonia-music.org)
- Founder & Co-director, with Julia McKenzie, from 2015 to present
- March, 2017 - Motets of Marianne von Martines (recording)
- January, 2017 – Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans, staged production in collaboration with The Longy School of Music early Music Department
- May, 2016 - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant Recipient
- Upcoming, April 2018 – Sacred Works of Salamone Rossi
- Commissioned new works
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Performance Projects
- Claudio Monteverdi’s secular masterwork Book 8: Madrigals of Love and War and sacred collection Selva Morale e Spirituale
- The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Chamber Choir with CCM’s Early Music faculty and guest artists
- Handel’s Alcina, coach and performance practice consultant for opera production.
Dickinson College Collegium, Director, 2004-2005
Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Institute of Music Baroque Orchestra, Director, 2000-2003
Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre, Music Director/Conductor
- Cavalli’s Il Giasone (1997)
- Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero (1998)
- Handel Delirio Amoroso (1998)
- Judith in Triptych (1999)
University of Minnesota, Music Director/Conductor for Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Chamber Ensembles
Cecilia’s Circle (Ccircle.org)
Two decades of residencies and performances centered around the work and lives of early women musicians, from 1991
- Centaur Records CD (2004) - Thy Hand Hast Done All This: “Judith” and Other Works by Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
- Upcoming Centaur Records CD Release - Peace in Her Mouth and War in Her Heart: The Nature of Love in the Songs of Barbara Strozzi
Adastra, A Period Instrument Duo (adastra)
With baroque and classical violinist Jennifer Roig-Francoli, from 2007
Live performance of Fonata Sonata Terza in Cincinnati
Galhano/Montgomery
- Harpsichordist with Cléa Galhano, recorder, from 1995
- CD: Songs in the Ground: Variations and Other Renewable Notions for Recorder and Harpsichord (10,000 Lakes, 2005)
Chatham Baroque (chathambaroque.org)
Founding harpsichordist 1991-1993 (then Pittsburgh Early Music Ensemble)
Accordion and Klezmorim
Shir Chutzpa, The Temple Shir Tikva Shabbat Band, Founder and director, 2010-present
Norski Klezmorski, The Northeast Iowa Jewish-American Band, Founder and director, 1996-2000
World premiere’s of John Howell Morrison’s Breathing Memory (2004) and Ember (2009)
Women’s Studies in Music
Cecilia’s Circle (link: ccircle.org)
Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center (link: https://www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/scholars/profiles/montgomery.html
The Women and Music Project (WAMP)
A production engine of the Brandeis WSRC, producing CDS, conferences, and performance events
- Alive by Her Own Hand: Women Composers As Performers of Their Work, A 2011 “fest-conference” at Brandeis University (link: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/january/composers.html)
- Brilliant Variations on Sentimental Songs: Slipping Piano Virtuosity into the Antebellum Drawing Room (Centaur, 2015)
- Reviving Song: Spirited Works By Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Héléne Montgeroult, And Louis Spohr
- Upcoming CD of motets by Marianne von Martines, to be recorded by Eudaimonia, a Purposeful Period Band
The Women and Music Mix (WAMMIX)
The Women and Music Mix was initiated at the Women’s Studies Research Center to study the contributions of women to the field of music as composers, performers, teachers, scholars, and sponsors; to bring their work to a wider public through lectures, concerts, conferences, publications and recordings that highlight and explore issues of women and gender. The Women and Music Mix consists of 8 acclaimed Resident Scholars who have committed themselves to advancing women’s music and bringing their pioneering work to a wider public. The group is made up of composer Ruth Lomon, composer/violinist Dana Maiben, conductor/pianist Jane Ring Frank, musicologist/activist Liane Curtis, keyboardist/musicologist Vivian Montgomery, violist da gamba Laury Gutierrez, conductor Amelia LeClair, and music therapist Suzanne Hanser.
- Concert and talk honoring the 25th anniversary of Judith Tick's Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950
- The Annual Alfredo and Demitra DiLuzio Concert of Women Composers
Women’s Music in Georgian England
2014 Fulbright Senior Scholar UK Fellowship
Research and recording of work and biography of pianist/composers Martha Greatorex (1759-1829) and Maria Noke White (1784-17260
Women’s Travel Club
In March of 2017, with the support of a grant from the Women’s Travel Club (founded by wives of Harvard professors in the 19th century), I was able to return to the UK to record pieces by my two Georgian pianist composer discoveries, Martha Greatorex and Maria Noke White, on a beautiful 1820 Broadwood grand that belongs to the Finchcocks Collection of Richard and Katrina Burnett.
Descriptions and links to recordings can be found on the Fortepiano page.