Summer Programs

Explore our immersive summer programs—for music teachers, new music performers and composers, and those who want to pursue music as a healing art. This is a great way to experience Longy on your way to a degree!

LONGY’S DIVERGENT STUDIO New Music Workshop for Performers & Composers

Join us for a 14-day immersive new music experience focused on interdisciplinary tools and holistic creative practices for contemporary musicians. Featuring collaborations with resident new music ensemble loadbang, guest composers, and Longy’s cutting-edge contemporary music faculty, participants form a tight-knit community centered around conversations about new directions in musical practice.

TEACHER EDUCATION Summer Professional Development

Longy’s teacher education summer courses are focused on music and social change, to enable music teachers to build inclusive curricula and deliver outstanding musical instruction. Anyone may take these summer courses for graduate credits, for professional development hours, or without credits or hour (these are not degree-granting classes or workshops and do not require matriculating into a master’s degree program to participate).

DALCROZE SUMMER INSTITUTE Immersive Dalcroze Training for All Musicians

Dalcroze Eurhythmics uses rhythmic movement, intense listening, and improvisation to unlock creativity and open the doors to enriched and enlivened music making. Equally applicable to the music classroom and the private studio, to the beginning musician and the advanced performer, this holistic approach to musical understanding complements traditional avenues of study and practice. We welcome all musicians, music instructors, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, music students, music therapists, as well as actors and dancers!

CERTIFIED MUSIC PRACTITIONER ® Music for Healing and Transition Program, Inc.™ (MHTP)

Are you a musician with a compassionate heart ready to learn how to use your gifts as a form of palliative and therapeutic comfort care? A collaboration with MHTPTM, this intensive, scientifically-based summer institute allows musicians to become Certified Music Practitioners (CMPs)®

EL SISTEMA SUMMER ACADEMY

Longy’s El Sistema Summer Academy is designed for students from El Sistema-inspired and community-based programs across the Greater Boston area and beyond. This program fosters friendships, enhances musical artistry, develops creative music-making skills, and promotes leadership. Year after year, we host Boston’s finest young musicians for music immersion and inspiration.