This channel features recordings and performances by David Montgomery, American conductor and pianist. Montgomery studied in Paris with René Leibowitz and in the U.S. and Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. He became Leibowitz's assistant, specializing in music of the Second Viennese school. Later he took intensive classes in contemporary music with Pierre Boulez in Los Angeles. He was engaged by Sony Tri-Star/Columbia pictures as a conductor and historical advisor. He then joined Sony Music NY and Sony Classical Hamburg as musicologist and performance advisor. From Hamburg, Montgomery toured Europe as a pianist and helped to revitalize the Jena Philharmonic in the former East Germany as the orchestra's principal guest conductor. With the Philharmonic he made recordings for BMG's Arte Nova label in Munich. He is an authority on Viennese music, and his book, "Franz Schubert's Music in Performance" (Hillsdale, 2003), has become widely known in performance and scholarly circles.