Jim Montgomery
	Jim Montgomery has been involved with electroacoustic music since 1970 when he came to the University of Toronto as a graduate student. There he studied composition with with Gustav Ciamaga and John Weinzweig.
	He is a founding member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE), the world's longest lived electroacoustic group.
His works have represented Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers, the Latin American Courses in Contemporary Msic and the International Society for Contemporary Music. His composiitons utilize many media, those for the stage displaying a defininte socio-political activism, as in the series of works titled Didactic Musics.
Mr. Montgomery has composed many works combining acoustic and electroacoustic instruments and has developed several new procedures for collective composition and structured improvisation. The culmination of this series so far was the large work Megajam (1992) which used twenty live-electronic performers.
Mr. Montgomery's interest in computer music dates from his involvement with William Buxton's Structured Sound Synthesis Project at the University of Toronto in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Currently, he is at work in developing interractive works for multiple computers.
In his parallel career as an arts administrator, Jim Montgomery served as Managing Director of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble from 1976 to 1983 and Administrative Director of New Music Concerts from 1984 to 1987. Since 1987, he has been the Artistic Director of the Music Gallery, Canada's leading new music concert venue.
Jim Montgomery is a past president of the Canadian League of Composers and has served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto (Elecrtonic Media). He is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.