Living Voices | Composer Jessie Montgomery
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness, making her an acute interpreter of 21st-century American sound and experience. Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).
Living Voices | Composer Larysa Kuzmenko
Larysa Kuzmenko is a Toronto-based composer, pianist, and Juno nominee. Her music has been commissioned, performed, broadcast, and recorded by many outstanding musicians all over the world. She has appeared as a pianist in several countries and has performed at Carnegie Hall, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Roy Thomson Hall, Massey Hall, and several venues throughout Canada. She is currently on staff at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, where she teaches piano, harmony, and composition.
Living Voices | Composer Anna Clyne
Described as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” in a New York Times profile and as “fearless” by NPR, GRAMMY-nominated Anna Clyne is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists around the world. Clyne was named the 8th most-performed contemporary composer in the world and the most-performed living female British composer in 2022.
Composer Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz (February 5, 1909 – January 17, 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.
