Alumni Spotlight

John Glennon MM/ME ’21

Elementary Music Teacher, West Roxbury, MA

“I have known I wanted to play the trumpet and teach music since I was quite literally 10 years old, so accepting this teaching position right after graduating from Longy is a dream come true!”

Sadie Gustafson-Zook MM ’19 Jazz & Contemporary Music

Longy/MHTP Summer Institute Scholar ’20 Certified Music Practitioner in training Winner of the Creativity Foundation Legacy Prize

“As a master’s student at Longy, my transition into the Music for Healing and Transition Program was seamless! I felt supported by Longy faculty every step of the way. Training to be a Certified Music Practitioner felt like a natural progression.”

Sirgourney Cook MM ’16 Opera Performance

Soprano, Boston Lyric Opera

“[A] serious and comic actor/singer with major pipes . . . Cook’s encore as a vividly flirtatious Musetta in ‘Quando m’en vo’ from La Boheme, could have waltzed across the footlights and soared to the highest opera house balconies.” Boston Musical Intelligencer review of Cook’s performance as Longy’s Pickman Hall

Nadia Shpachenko UD ’97 Piano Performance

Concert Pianist Professor of Music, Cal Poly Pomona University

Concert Pianist. 2020 Grammy winner for her recording The Poetry of Places as well as multiple Grammy nominations. “One of today’s foremost promoters of contemporary music.” (Textura Magazine).