Vivian Montgomery

Vivian Montgomery, DMA, is an award-winning early keyboardist on the Historical Performance Faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College. A former UK Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and NEA Soloist Fellow, she served as faculty for harpsichord and baroque performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music from 2003 to 2013. Vivian has ardently explored the musical lives and output of women from earliest times through the nineteenth century,  as a resident scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, and through three decades of cross-disciplinary work with her ensemble, Cecilia’s Circle. Many of her performing and research projects center around domestic music of Georgian England and Antebellum America. As a conductor, Vivian has led many Baroque opera (with Ex Machina, the University of Minnesota, and Chatham Baroque), orchestral, and choral performances, most recently as co-director of the Boston-based ensemble Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band. She is also an accordionist and a widely published writer of creative nonfiction and boundary-pushing research pieces. Recordings can be found on Centaur, Schubert Club, and Innova.