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Dennis Montgomery III (born June 19, 1965 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an African American pianist, organist, and professor. Montgomery has been the director for the infamous Berklee College of Music Reverence Gospel Ensemble for nearly 30 years.

Biography

Childhood

Montgomery grew up singing and playing in Baptist churches around the upper Louisiana area under the tutelage of his father and mother, Lucious and Mary Montgomery. By the time he was nine years old, Montgomery, was proficient enough on the Hammond B3 Organ to get hired to work alongside his father at Stonewall Baptist Church and also at nearby St. Mary Baptist Church. Montgomery’s father, who played mostly by ear, was the minister of music at Stonewall Baptist Church in Shreveport but he was not the only one playing into Montgomery’s life. Montgomery’s mother also played organ but unlike her husband was trained classically.

Education

Montgomery came to Berklee College of Music in 1983, declared piano as his principal instrument and majored in Music Education. Shortly after his arrival at Berklee, he immediately headed for the gospel choir which at that time was only a extra curricular activity. Montgomery soon joined the choir as a student director and accompanist to assist former Berklee faculty member Orville Wright. A year after his arrival with the choir, Montgomery saw the addition of the gospel choir to the permanent curriculum with an academic weight of two credits. Because of Montgomery’s strong belief of being wholly educated in whatever field one might study, he was very pleased with the adding of the choir to the school’s curriculum. When asked why he thought the addition of the choir was crucial to the school he said, “We know that jazz has its roots in the Negro Spiritual, which is gospel music. Gospel is also the mother of a lot of other secular music that America has produced."

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-Montgomery grew up singing and playing in Baptist churches around the upper Louisiana area under the tutelage of his father and mother, Lucious and Mary Montgomery.  By the time he was nine years old, Montgomery, was proficient enough on the [[Hammond B3 Organ]] to get hired to work alongside his father at Stonewall Baptist Church and also at nearby St. Mary Baptist Church.  Montgomery’s father was the minister of [[music]] at Stonewall Baptist Church in Shreveport.
+Montgomery grew up singing and playing in Baptist churches around the upper Louisiana area under the tutelage of his father and mother, Lucious and Mary Montgomery.  By the time he was nine years old, Montgomery, was proficient enough on the [[Hammond B3 Organ]] to get hired to work alongside his father at Stonewall Baptist Church and also at nearby St. Mary Baptist Church.  Montgomery’s father, who played mostly by ear, was the minister of [[music]] at Stonewall Baptist Church in Shreveport but he was not the only one playing into Montgomery’s life.  Montgomery’s mother also played organ but unlike her husband was trained classically.
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