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From your first days at Longy you are a Boston musician, performing professionally with our faculty and artistic partners around the city. Get hands-on, real-world experience while you build your network with an extensive community of musicians and organizations. Boston isn’t merely a backdrop—it’s the stage for your artistic pursuits and an integral part of the Longy experience. Be immersed in a vibrant, artistic city with hundreds of new ensembles, opera companies, theaters, orchestras, dance troupes and museums for you to enjoy.

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We create extraordinary performing, teaching, and career opportunities for our students through our partnerships—over 40 artistic and educational partners, artists- and ensemblesin-residence, and Music as a Healing Art partners. Our artistic collaborators include:

• A Far Cry • Boston Camerata • Boston Early Music Festival • Castle of Our Skins • Celebrity Series of Boston • Du Bois Orchestra • Horszowski Trio • Imagine Orchestra • MassOpera • Musicians from Marlboro • New England Jazz Collaborative • New Gallery Concert Series • Palaver Strings • Radius Ensemble

Artist Activist-in-Residence

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol, and ESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House and the City of Burlington, Vermont. Acclaimed as a violinist and activist, DBR’s career spans more than two decades, earning commissions by venerable artists and institutions worldwide.

Senior Scholar-in-Residence

Award-winning composer, conductor, and author William C. Banfield is one of the most performed and recorded composers of his generation, and his national music curriculum is taught throughout the country. He has written extensively about Black musicians and composers, and has actively elevated important musical voices through his contemporary jazz art recording label and orchestra, JazzUrbane. At Longy, he will provide professional development for faculty and staff, teach signature courses for students, and conduct the Imagine Orchestra.