BECOME TOTHEMUSICIANTHEWORLDNEEDSYOUBE
No matter what experiences are served up by life, we should never underestimate the real and sustaining power of giving voice to what lives within us, whether that is through an instrument, through composing a new work, or, quite literally, through our vocal cords. Here at Longy, we see our role as guiding and facilitating experiences that nudge you towards finding your voice and how you will use it in the world.
Think of this viewbook as a window into a unique community that is exploring new ways to shape musical artistry. We invite you to be a part of this place, where musicians are actively choosing how we can—individually and collectively—have impact in the world around us.
the world needs you to be...
Karen Zorn,
We are a community—an institution—that exists to raise up voices, spark creative expression, and bring new perspectives to light
LONGY.EDU | LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC OF BARD COLLEGE TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: The Longy Difference Potential + Access = Impact 4 Make your music matter 6 Alumni Spotlight 8 Study what’s important to you 10 Start your career now 12 You belong at Longy 14 PART II: Programs of Study Vocal Studies ................................................. 16 Piano ................................................................. 18 Jazz & Contemporary Music 20 Strings ............................................................. 22 Brass & Woodwinds 24 Composition 26 Historical Performance 28 PART III: Degrees and Diplomas Undergraduate Degrees/Diplomas....... 31 Graduate Degrees/Diplomas ................. 32 Master of Music in Music Education .... 33 Summer Programs...................................... 36 HOW TO APPLY ......................................... 38
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because the world needs music now more than ever. At Longy, we’re constantly rethinking conservatory education and expanding the world’s understanding of what a life in music can mean. We prepare you to engage new audiences, teach anyone, anywhere—and make a difference with your music.
Judith Bose, Dean of the Conservatory
As you page through this viewbook, you will realize that Longy is a different kind of conservatory. Our mission is to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world. Join us and you will develop your artistry and discover how you can make an impact as a musician.
This really is a moment in history like no other. Yet it’s a time to keep your education going—keep practicing, keep learning, and start building relationships with friends and mentors at Longy.
BecomePresidentthemusician
Emmanuel Ramirez Jazz Guitar
Jubilee Chen Violin “As a performer educator,community-basedandI’mdedicatedtoadvocatingforclassicalmusicandfindingwaysforittoflourishinoursociety.Mydreamsaretoeventuallystartachambermusicandteachingprogramthat’salsoacommunitypillarandcreativelysupportsfamiliesandyouth.”
“Being at Longy, I’m very excited to be able to expand my voice as a composer. I also have a passion for music leadership and I wholeheartedly believe that musicians are agents of change. I look forward to being in those places where I can make an impact in my community and enrich my community through music.”
Janet CompositionLagah-Bona
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“I learned that the changes I needed to make to keep improving as a musician—be patient, be a better listener, be more disciplined, and find joy and beauty in everyday life—were the same needed to be a better person overall. Practice is not just about flawless execution.”
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Make your music matter
Longy is a conservatory whose mission is to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world. This social imperative is at the core of the school’s curriculum, encouraging students to become the musicians the world needs them to be. The school is committed to preparing its students to meet a changing musical landscape head-on, giving them the skills to perform, the ambition to teach, and the desire to expand access and opportunity within classical music. Every student is encouraged to live by Longy’s bold mission and actively serve the community around them. By weaving artistry and service together as an integral part of the curriculum, Longy is shaping a new future for classical music.
Watch: Your Music Matters
Music as a Healing Art
Teaching artistry, a distinctive component of Longy’s graduate curriculum, prepares you to engage audiences anywhere—not just with music, but also with interaction, dialogue, and activities that provide context and create personal connections to the performance. You will be able to walk into any room full of people and make something exciting happen.
Through Longy’s Music as a Healing Art Initiative, you will learn how your music can provide comfort and healing to the most vulnerable among us. Classwork, performances, and partnerships with a myriad of care facilities will prepare you to bring your music to those who need it most. In addition, Longy is the only conservatory offering specialized training to become a Certified Music Practitioner®—opening new career pathways and expanding your professional portfolio.
Sistema Side-by-Side
Conservatory students learn about El Sistema from the inside out. Playing in our Sistema Side-by-Side ensembles, you will work as youth mentors in collaboration with faculty who were trained in Venezuela. You will also learn, first-hand, the rehearsal and mentoring techniques that have helped El Sistema become a worldwide phenomenon.
Teaching Artistry
Certified Music Practitioner Winner of the Creativity Foundation Legacy Prize
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Nadia ’UndergraduateShpachenkoDiploma97PianoPerformance Concert AwardCalProfessorPianistofMusic,PolyPomonaNadiaisa2020Grammywinnerforherrecording
John MasterGlennonofMusic ’21 Music Education
The Poetry of Places and the recipient of multiple Grammy nominations.
“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!”
Tahanee Aluwihare Master of Music ’14 Vocal Performance SanDebutingMezzo-SopranowithOperaJosethisseason, as Marcellina in Le Nozze de Figaro, after her Tri-Cities Opera debut as Anjana in Kamala Sankaram’s Miranda; the role of Dido in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Boston Camerata; and Opera Idaho’s season premiere gala Opera in the Park. She has also worked with Opera CharlottesvilleMemphis,Opera,andCityLyricOpera,amongothers.
“One of foremosttoday’spromoters of contemporary music.” (Textura Magazine)
Sadie &MasterGustafson-ZookofMusic’19JazzContemporaryMusic
“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.”
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Music as a Healing Art: Learn how your music can bring healing to healthcare settings. >Watch the Video
There’s no one way to be a musician. At Longy, you’ll uncover and explore new ways to make a living in music. Our innovative Catalyst Curriculum for graduate studies is customized to focus on the skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need to create change in the world. You choose the training you need for the career paths you want to explore.
At Longy, we empower students to design experiences, produce projects, and engage audiences with exceptional, transformative music encounters. You’ll learn …
To learn more about our Catalyst Curriculum, check out this video.
Advanced Teaching Artistry: Apply the audience engagement skills of Teaching Artistry to events and programs at Longy and beyond, working independently or in small groups.
With fewer requirementscoreoverall—just 10 of the 36 credits you’ll need to graduate—you’ll have plenty of time for open credits that will let you explore what really interests you.
How to create: In our Custom Commission Program, you’ll collaborate in a laboratory setting, where performers join forces with composers to create custom pieces.
>Watch the Video
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Music and Civic Engagement: Identify social needs that can be addressed through music.
How to curate: As you program your First Year and Graduate Recitals, you’ll develop programs that display your unique artistic perspective, share meaningful repertoire, and explore the pathways in which you communicate with the audience.
One of many Project-Based classes: Get hands-on experience designing and producing projects and building audiences. >Watch the Video
How to make your music matter: Starting with our Artist Statement Workshops and Career Coaching Program, we will help you articulate a vision for your career. Then we’ll help you identify the skills, training, and classes you’ll need to reach your goals.
Choose one or more of these options to focus on what you need to learn to get where you want to go.
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How to make your own work: In Musician’s Portfolio, you’ll build your website and gather the headshot, résumé, video, and audio samples you’ll need to find work. You’ll also learn to design experiences, produce projects and find opportunities for creating your own work.
Sistema Side-by-Side: Experience the power of El Sistema in Longy’s music for social change program, as you mentor and perform alongside young musicians.
How to engage: In Teaching Artistry, you’ll develop the skills to engage audiences in any setting—essential skills for bringing music to new audiences everywhere.
Building projects from the ground up is an essential skill. Choose one of the following options:
Entrepreneurship: Learn practical skills to get any project—or organization—off the ground.
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• Palaver Strings
• Boston Camerata
• Castle of Our Skins
Start your career now
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Senior Scholar-in-Residence
Artist DanielActivist-in-ResidenceBernardRoumain(DBR)
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:
• Boston Early Music Festival
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
• Du Bois Orchestra
• New England Jazz Collaborative
• Radius Ensemble
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.
• Celebrity Series of Boston
• A Far Cry
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.
• Musicians from Marlboro
• New Gallery Concert Series
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• Horszowski Trio
• Imagine Orchestra MassOpera
We root for each other and cheer on each other’s successes. Play your part in co-creating a community of collaborative music-makers of all kinds. This is how we live and learn together. This is what belonging at Longy means.
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You belong at Longy
It’s so exciting to be part of an institution that challenges restrictive, outdated paradigms of what is “allowed” in the classical and operatic fields. I work to empower students to expect and to build a fair and inclusive industry, one where musicians can live in any body and be put on stage when they’re talented.
Imagine working with a dynamic opera company while earning your degree; crafting a professional network before leaving school; using your education to launch your career.
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Guided by an exceptional faculty, students in Longy’s Vocal Studies Department learn and perform across multiple styles and genres—from fully staged operas, staged art songs, and newly composed works, to cantatas and oratorios, and contemporary improvisation. Longy singers have opportunities to work with distinguished local organizations, including our professional opera company-in-residence MassOpera—as well as partners such as Boston Camerata and Castle of Our Skins.
Vocal Studies
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Course Highlights
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Perform nineteenth-century lieder that would traditionally be off-limits to your voice type, gender, or sexuality. Separate lieder from its cis-heteronormative, male-centric worldview and bring it into the twenty-first century with alternative character perspectives.
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Dana Lynne Varga is founder and artistic director of MassOpera as well as Vocal Studies faculty at Longy. Aside from classical vocal music, her influences include pop, hip-hop, and jazz. Much of her work has focused on empowering musicians and on gender parity in classical and vocal music.
Master of Music Degree
Your Faculty
Longy’s focus on collaboration, real-world experience, and entrepreneurship prepares students to make a real difference, and our project-based courses force students to create rather than simply study music created by others. All of this happens in a space of belonging for all genders, nationalities, and lived experiences—it’s truly the academia of the future.
*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date.
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MassOpera will hold intensive Artist Training for twelve Longy graduate students, who will benefit from one-on-one studio and coaching sessions, as well as guaranteed casting in a professional MassOpera production or event. They will also hold in-depth workshops for the entire Longy vocal department, focusing on crucial skills for working artists.
Bachelor of UndergraduateMusic*Diploma*
Check Longy’s crossover options Historical Performance Jazz Contemporary Music departments.
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MassOpera’s New Opera Workshop Concert Performance of Dan Shore’s Freedom Ride (2019) featuring Longy alumni
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Performing musical theatre contributes to your holistic training as a vocalist, actor, and performer. Learn modern performance techniques and delve into a character to unlock your potential as a well-rounded singer.
Graduate Performance Diploma
Degrees & Diplomas
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Bachelor of UndergraduateMusic*Diploma*
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Course Highlights
Diverse and Eclectic Collaborative Skills Step outside of classical accompanying and bolster your collaborative skills in musical theatre, pop, rhythm and blues, gospel, acapella and choir rep, dance studio classes, and other varied genres.
Brian Moll‡ Eri PresidentKarenAndriusNorikoMattEstherNakamura†NingYau‡Savage†Yasuda*ZlabysZorn Chin piano
I chose to teach at Longy because of its intimate, supportive, and diverse community, where we’re able to give students our undivided attention—helping them discover and explore the impact their music can have on society. There is also a focus on interdisciplinary artistry and collaboration, which allows us to widen the scope of classical music and welcome music and musicians from different backgrounds. I’ve seen the importance of this firsthand in my work with the Neave Trio, where we’re always looking for new ways to elevate our concerts.
Your Faculty
Pianist and Collaborative Piano faculty member Eri Nakamura is driven by the power music has to inspire and to connect people with one another. She is also a pianist with the Neave Trio, which combines interdisciplinary art forms with their music to produce surprising and engaging concert experiences.
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*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date. Longy accepts undergraduate Piano applications, but the Collaborative Piano program is graduate only.
Master of Music Degree Graduate Performance Diploma
Eri Nakamura
Working with a roster of active performers on the faculty, students develop their artistry as soloists and chamber musicians with private studio instruction at its core. A weekly piano seminar expands approaches to practicing, interpretation, and programming. Students focus on technique and performance practice but also how to create compelling and innovative programs that engage a variety of audiences. Students will also have the opportunity to work with partners like Horszowski Trio, Musicians from Marlboro, and the New Gallery Concert Series.
Degrees & Diplomas
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faculty *no private studio >> Versatility in your career is key. Check out Longy’s crossover options in Historical Performance or Jazz & Contemporary Music departments. Did you know? Longy has purchased 27 new state-of-the-art Steinway and Yamaha pianos in the past three years. Highlights from Touch Divided: Piano Faculty Recital
Counts and Recounts: Music and Politics Curate a concert of music—to be performed on the eve of Election Day— that communicates a political message. Each week, the class will briefly cover a historical topic, delve into current issues in the classical music world, and analyze works for listening, study, and reflection.
To me, music is about healing and transformation. People want to be connected to one another—and music can offer that connection without language, without words. Students deserve support and empathy, not competition. That’s part of what makes Longy a great place to grow as a person and a musician, as we help students realize their potential to change the world.
River of Blues: Flowing from the Margins to the Mainstream From West Africa to the Mississippi Delta, the Blues has long been the foundation of Black musical culture. Follow the artists who developed this style and influenced American mainstream music forever.
Leo Blanco, ensemblesCharlieAnacompositionPeterensemblespiano,PeterensemblesDaveensemblescomposition,piano,Bryant*,Cassinoimprovisation,Evans,Guigui,voiceKohlhase*,
Degrees & Diplomas Graduate Performance Diploma Master of Music Degree LONGY.EDU | PROGRAMS OF STUDY | 21 >> Consider adding a Graduate Performance Diploma in JCM to your MM and take the music world by storm with your versatility. Get to know our new artistic partner, the New England Jazz Collaborative Members of the Latinx Student Union perform “La Llorona” (Chavela Vargas)
Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, and J Dilla challenged the status quo. Take an in-depth look at how they changed the way their instruments were played, invented novel improvisational and compositional languages, and forever altered the course of modern music.
One thing I really enjoy about Longy’s teaching and learning community is how closely everything is intertwined. There’s a lot of conversation between different courses and departments, which can help students adapt to the changing and diverse music landscape of today. As both a classical and jazz pianist, I’ve seen how there are more and more opportunities to create an interplay between different aesthetics in today’s music
Faculty Profile Matt Savage
Course Highlights
Sound and Style: Rulebreakers
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so special about Longy’s environment, especially how tight-knit our programs are. This academic setting allows students to build long-lasting musical relationships, and to find their artistic voices. Longy doesn’t just give students seeds of creative ideas, but also the roots—and the right kind of soil for growing.
Matt Savage is a jazz and classical pianist who has been performing professionally since childhood. He teaches in the Collaborative Piano and Jazz & Contemporary Music departments at Longy.
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Longy’s JCM program provides an open environment in which students experiment and create to find their artistic voice. Engaging in improvisation, composition, and performance practices, untethered to any one discipline or genre, students will build off the foundations of jazz and explore beyond—to modern contemporary, global folk traditions, bluegrass, Rock, Hip Hop, as well as other popular idioms— to define the music of the now and of the future. Students will also have the opportunity to work with partners like the New England Jazz Collaborative and our ensemble-in-residence Imagine Orchestra.
Your Faculty
Eric Hofbauer chair, Naseemguitar Alatrash, folk traditions ensemble Sara Bielanski, voice
Jazz & Contemporary Music
Survey and perform string music written since the year 2000. You’ll study its compositional influences, extended techniques, and the technology used to create it, as well as trends in programming and key performers.
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Musical Crossroads: An Intercultural Journey Investigate and perform new compositions that combine Western and non-Western elements from musical cultures around the world, focusing on unconventional instrumentation, artistic integration, and musical idiosyncrasies.
Master of Music Degree
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Will Riley
>> Versatility in your career is key. Check out Longy’s crossover options in Historical Performance or Jazz & Contemporary Music departments.
Rebirth | Horszowski Trio Jesse Mills, violin; Ole Akahoshi, cello; Rieko Aizawa, piano
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Graduate Performance Diploma
Bachelor of UndergraduateMusic*Diploma*
Course 21st-CenturyHighlightsStrings
Bebo Shiu joined Longy’s faculty as a double bass instructor last fall. He draws on his experience as both a freelance musician in Boston and a member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra to help Longy musicians find their voice and career path.
Degrees & Diplomas
Students around the country are demanding a rebranding of education for classical musicians, and that’s what Longy’s career-based Catalyst Curriculum provides. It takes street smarts and an entrepreneurial spirit to thrive as a musician today. Music education is endangered in our current climate and economy, but Longy has its priorities straight and prepares musicians to be entrepreneurs. There’s not a minute to waste anymore as a musician, because it’s not a brave new world—it’s a tough new scene. That’s how I decided that Longy was the place to be.
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Mario Gotoh Mark Lakirovich Paula Majerfeld Cello
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Christopher Ladd
Your Faculty
Andy Kozar, chair Violin Gabriela Diaz Josh AnnaAlexanderKarlaJessePaulaMarkSolomiyaHendersonIvakhivLakirovichMajerfeldMillsDonehewPérezVelinzonMarieWilliams
*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date.
When I was working as a freelance musician in Boston, I kept meeting people who were surviving and thriving in the Boston freelance scene—which can be really challenging to do. These same people were winning local auditions and expanding their networks, and I could tell there was something unique about them. When I’d look up their bios, I’d find out they went to Longy.
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Our Strings Department faculty are active performers and dedicated teachers, encompassing a wide range of styles and repertoire, from early music to new compositions. We emphasize individual attention from faculty mentors, ensemble playing, small classes, crossdepartmental collaboration, and frequent performance opportunities, to create a uniquely inspiring learning environment. Students will also have the opportunity to work with partners like A Far Cry, Horszowski Trio, Palaver Strings, or the Du Bois Orchestra.
Artistry isn’t exclusive to the proscenium stage. Go beyond the concert hall and explore a variety of spaces with untapped potential to reach new audiences and communities.
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Longy attracts a special kind of student: those with an innate creative vision, who are self-motivated and driven to deepen their understanding of their own artistic identity. We’re dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to providing a safe, accepting environment for people of all life experiences. We train musicians not only to be successful in the current world, but to thrive in the world of the future.
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I love seeing students arrive here and flourish in our community, and I feel heartened when I reflect on music’s power to transform and heal. Whether as a distraction from physical discomfort, respite from mental distress, or just as entertainment, music is such a versatile and important tool. Longy encourages students to make a difference in the world with their music, as well as to understand their role in and impact on society with their artistry.
Your Faculty
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William Lang
Rachael Elliott
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Andy Kozar, chair
Clarinet
Degrees & Diplomas
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Jonathan Cohler
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Guided by Longy’s experienced faculty mentors, Brass and Woodwinds students build upon technical training to diversify and expand their skillsets to navigate the professional world. Students participate in solo, chamber, and orchestral performances, from classical staples to custom-commissioned contemporary music, gaining experiences that better prepare them to change the face of classical music—and change the world. Students also have the opportunity to work with partners like Imagine Orchestra, Radius Ensemble, or the Du Bois Orchestra.
Nanci Belmont
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Master of Music Performance Diploma of UndergraduateMusic*Diploma* will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate beyond that date.
Trombone
>> Versatility in your career is key. Check out Longy’s crossover options in Historical Performance or Jazz & Contemporary Music departments. Learn about Orchestra FLEX Watch Longy Trumpets perform “Absalon, fili mi”
Music in Alternative Spaces
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Sasha Johnson
Ensemble Uncaged, Longy’s premier contemporary music ensemble, will perform a wide variety of 20th- and 21st-century works by a diverse array of living and (recently) dead composers.
Bachelor
Kenneth Amis
Rane Moore specializes in orchestral and chamber music as well as in contemporary music. She is dedicated to exploring music’s power to make life better in both small and significant ways. At Longy, Rane teaches clarinet and chamber music.
Brass & Woodwinds
Degree Graduate
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Amy Beth Kirsten John MatthewMorrisonEvan
PROGRAMS OF STUDY Learn about Orchestra FLEX
Your Faculty
Alexandra du Bois, chair Peter Aldins
Taylor Jeremy Van Buskirk
Master of Music Degree Graduate Performance Diploma
Longy composers work in a vibrant, artistic environment where they collaborate actively with performers to bring their music to life. Composition students benefit from experienced mentoring in a supportive new music community dedicated to high standards and academic inquiry. Occasions to write music for soloists, chamber groups, orchestras, and contemporary ensembles abound! The Custom Commission unit of Longy’s Catalyst Curriculum fosters extensive collaboration between performance and composition students.
*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date.
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Pablo Santiago Chin began as a clarinetist, and now teaches Composition and directs the computer music studio at Longy. His music has been commissioned and performed throughout the world. He is the founder and artistic director of the Fonema Consort, a vocal and instrumental ensemble that focuses on Latin American composers.
Pablo Santiago Chin Peter Evans
The top-down model of “composer writes, performer plays/sings” is antiquated. Break down typical composer/performer roles and develop a more holistic, person-specific approach to collaboration.
Longy’s mission is incredibly seductive to me, and resonant with what I strive for personally. We help students find a niche in society that also benefits society, and we allow space for everyone to contribute. This allows our mission to be shifted, twisted, and developed further in exciting ways. We have a positive influence on society and a great community where we give students the resources to become better artists. But most importantly, we give students the freedom to choose their own path from so many options, and find a way to incorporate different elements into their own artistry.
Course ComputerHighlightsComposition and Sound Design
Composition
Faculty ChinPabloProfileSantiago
Dive into the world of sound design for music and multimedia projects. Create new timbres and electroacoustic compositions using digital synthesis, sampling, and signal processing.
Composers will also have the opportunity to work with partners like Radius Ensemble, the New England Jazz Collaborative, and the New Gallery Concert Series.
Degrees & Diplomas
Evan Bennett*
Ruth Mendelson* Garo Saraydarian* Tony Solitro*
*no private studio
These days, it’s unavoidable to use electronics in music. Electronic tools can give the performer extensive control over a piece and let them interact with technology in new ways. My classes focus on the fundamentals of computer music, which students can use to morph and create new sounds. These malleable possibilities let us explore different effects and experiment with sound, changing our ideas of what music can do.
Anna Yu Wang*
Performer-Composer Collaboration Lab
Bachelor of UndergraduateMusic*Diploma*
Historical Performance
Graduate Performance
Degrees Diplomas Diploma
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Digging for Songs in the Ground: Crossing Centuries with Ground Bass Improvisation and Compositions
Master of Music Degree LONGY.EDU | PROGRAMS OF STUDY
This interdepartmental course covers a wide range of eras, styles, and ethnicities that all use ground bass improvisation, from Byrd and Monteverdi to Ellington and Winehouse.
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Pamela Dellal teaches in the Vocal Studies and Historical Performance departments at Longy. She is a mezzo-soprano with an interest in language, translation, and the context behind the music she sings. Her performance repertoire covers twelve centuries, and she has performed with the Sequentia medieval ensemble in Europe. At Longy, she teaches students to communicate with their audiences and find their niche in the world of music.
As performers, our emotions advocate for the piece, and we have the privilege of communicating those emotions through our unique, individual sound.
I’m so happy to teach at a school where we encourage students to be passionate, learn with curiosity, and figure out what they’re capable of doing.
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Longy faculty, students, and alumni perform with Boston Camerata
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One of the amazing things about teaching historical performance—as well as one of the challenges of it—is that there’s a different technique for each performance system or tradition. That revelation transformed my technique, as I found all sorts of different colors I could use in each repertoire. I’m interested in helping my students discover what their bodies and voices can do, which gives them a more sophisticated suite of skills than most vocalists study. We don’t throw away technique; we work to free rather than constrict ourselves.
Historically informed performance plays a central role in Longy’s artistic and academic life. The curriculum focuses on both repertoire and research in its approach to music composed before 1800, featuring some of the most unique and thorough course offerings in early music in the United States. Students will also have the opportunity to work with partners like Boston Camerata and the Boston Early Music Festival.
Hildegard von Bingen had a powerful vision of the role of the feminine in the divine plan. Learn about women’s participation in worship and in the world through her theology, poetry, and music in original notation.
Anne Azéma voice
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DEGREES DIPLOMAS/
BACHELOR OF MUSIC (BM)
UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA (UD)
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Earn your Bachelor of Music degree from Emerson College through a joint program with Longy. Benefit from Longy’s conservatory faculty, performance opportunities, and artistic and social change programs while fulfilling your liberal arts credits at Emerson. You’ll be able to take advantage of the resources of both institutions—including the alumni network and career services—setting you up for success after graduation.
UndergraduateDegrees/Diplomas
Undergraduate Programs of Study: WoodwindsVocalStringsPianoOrganCompositionBrassStudies
If you’re a performer or composer who is self-motivated, on a mission, and wants to fast-track your career, dive into this three-year, music-intensive program. You’ll benefit from working alongside graduate students and professional musicians in ensembles, performance, and repertory courses— and if you decide to pursue your Master of Music degree, you’ll graduate in five years rather than six.
*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date.
MASTER OF MUSIC IN MUSIC EDUCATION (MM/ME)
Your Faculty Jamie AssistantGuntherDirector of Teacher Education Michael MichaelAntonioEducationManagerAdministrativeGutierrez,ofTeacherBerdugoCoelho
ChamberBrass WoodwindsVocalStringsPianoOrganJazzHistoricalCompositionCollaborativeMusicPianoPerformance&ContemporaryMusicStudies
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Longy’s in-person program was built for musicians who want a powerful graduate program rooted in equity and culturally responsive classroom teaching. Graduate with your Master’s in just one year, plus we’ll prepare you for initial teaching licensure in Massachusetts public schools! You’ll gain immediate experience, working with youth in Greater Boston-area public schools and El Sistema-inspired sites. You’ll also have full access to the resources of Longy’s conservatory campus, including studio lessons, ensembles, and performance opportunities in a musically rich, supportive environment.
CulturallyHighlightsResponsive Teaching
Graduate Programs of Study:
Longy’s teacher education program is rooted in equity and social action. Read on to learn more about our teacher education program, including an In-Person or Online degree.
Master of Music in Music Education—In Person
Graduate Degrees/Diplomas
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to reach students who are culturally and racially different from you within the music class and ensemble setting. You will explore your own assumptions about race, class, and culture; and learn strategies for creating classrooms that are culturally inviting to all. You will learn principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching, including affirming students’ cultural connections, stressing collectivity as well as individuality, and managing the classroom with firm, consistent, caring control.
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Course
Identity and Culture in the Classroom
Explores the many ways in which identity impacts educators and students in the classroom, with a focus on race, language, socio-economic status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and physical and learning abilities. Analyzes common music education materials as they relate to cultural competency, with emphasis on critiquing and revising traditional music education.
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MASTER OF MUSIC (MM)
GRADUATE PERFORMANCE DIPLOMA (GPD) GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMPOSITION (GD)
You’re ready to take a deep dive academically and artistically in this twoyear Master of Music program. Longy’s innovative Catalyst Curriculum pairs musical excellence with a focus on the skills you’ll need to become a professional musician: the ability to design experiences, produce projects, and engage audiences with exceptional musical encounters. Dedicated career coaching will help guide your studies and prepare you for what comes after graduation.
This two-year program was created so you can focus intensively on training, performance, and professional opportunities. The GPD/GD program usually comes after the completion of a Master of Music degree. Compared to the Master of Music, it requires fewer academic courses and is focused on your skills and interests. If you want to dig in deeper before launching your career, this program is perfect for you.
Non-Traditional Ensemble
Your Faculty Erin Zaffini, Director of Teacher Education
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Course Highlights
Learn non-traditional approaches to ensembles in a K-12 classroom— to ensure access and inclusion for students who wish to pursue performance opportunities beyond standard offerings. Focus on composing and arranging music for the students in your room, while ensuring a high-quality, standardsdriven ensemble experience, in rehearsal and performance. Watch:Longy’sMasterofMusicinMusicEducationOnline
Modern Band
This online program is designed especially for educators who seek an advanced degree without taking time off from their careers. It can be completed in one or two years. This degree is uniquely designed to integrate practices of social change in the music classroom. Graduates will be prepared to amplify the voices of students from all backgrounds, create and make music from diverse cultures, and approach music teaching from a holistic and equity-based perspective.
In school, I was often the only female-identifying guitarist or musician in the room. I was so self-conscious, I was always the first to turn the volume down on my amp. A student’s music education experience has the potential to be very empowering or very othering, so it’s important for educators to think critically about their approach and put more representation in the classroom. There is also a need for more adaptive approaches to music education. We need to change our expectations of what a music classroom looks like and how we expect students to engage with music.
Longy’s MM/ME stands out because we’ve built a team of people who are driving change both in and outside the classroom. As a teacher who knows firsthand what it’s like to work in a public school in 2022,I am able to offer our students relevant and real world practices. The change begins with the teachers, and I’m so excited to be part of reworking the concept of music education—it’s long
Composing and Arranging
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Sarah Fard is a guitarist and educator who teaches Adapted Music and Identity and Culture in the Music Classroom as part of Longy’s Master of Music in Music Education program. She also teaches at Medford High School in Medford, MA. Her focus is on making music education more accessible and inclusive.
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Master of Music in Music Education—Online
This course will focus on modern band approaches in popular music, popular music learning in formal and informal settings, songwriting and composition within modern band, and modern band approaches that can be implemented in the traditional classroom setting.
Summer Professional Development
DALCROZE SUMMER INSTITUTE
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!
Summer Programs
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).
New Music Workshop for Performers & Composers
|LONGY.EDU | SUMMER PROGRAMS >> Applications for summer programs open in early 2023.
TEACHER EDUCATION
LONGY’S DIVERGENT STUDIO
EL SISTEMA SUMMER ACADEMY
Immersive Dalcroze Training for All Musicians
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.
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)®
CERTIFIED MUSIC PRACTITIONER ® Music for Healing and Transition Program, Inc.™ (MHTP)
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!
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.
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We pledge to remove financial barriers. Our application is free and easy, and when we award scholarships, we’re looking to the breadth of each candidate’s experiences and their potential to contribute, both artistically and personally. In Fall 2022, every student in Longy’s incoming class received institutional financial support— because we invest in musicians who strive to make a difference in the world.
Application Deadlines
Step 2: Gather Your Materials
Step 1: Start Your Free Application
View our barrier-free Audition Requirements!
• Artistic Résumé
All applicants are considered for meritbased scholarships. Graduate students can also apply for the following awards:
Applicants for spring must audition by video recording. If you are applying Early Action for Fall—which guarantees an admissions decision and, if admitted, a scholarship package by the end of January—you will audition by uploading video recordings to the application. If you are applying Regular Action for Fall, you may choose to attend live auditions in February. However, we strongly encourage you to audition by video recording and, instead, come check out Longy’s campus on a designated Visit Day in March or April. We want you to enjoy your visit, not be stressed with auditions!
Teaching Assistantships offer valuable, hands-on classroom and pedagogical experience in local schools and El Sistema sites while reducing tuition fees by up to $10,000 annually. Apply within the online application.
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• International Student Requirements
How to Apply
• Two letters of recommendation
Early Action for Fall 2023: December 1
• Longy students receiving financial aid: 98%
Graduate Fellowships offer realworld professional experience in arts administration, enabling students to broaden their horizons while reducing tuition fees by up to $8,000 annually. Apply within the online application.
• Average financial aid received: 55%
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• Amount awarded in scholarships each year: $4.5 million
Please be in touch with any questions or to schedule a visit. Email admissions@longy.edu or call 617.831.1796
Step 3: Audition
Regular Action for Fall 2023: January 5
Spring 2023: November 1
Funding Opportunities
27 Garden Cambridge,StreetMA02138 617.831.1796 I admissions@longy.eduDegreesLongy.edu/ Diplomas / Certificates Master of Music Master of Music in Music Education (MM/ME) (in-person or online) Graduate Diploma in Composition Graduate Performance Diploma Artist UndergraduateDiploma Diploma*(with 3+2-year Graduate Degree option) Bachelor of Music* (through Emerson College) Certified Music Practitioner Dalcroze Certificate and License *Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date. Areas of Study JazzHistoricalCompositionCollaborativeChamberWoodwindsVocalStringsPianoOrganBrassStudiesMusicPianoPerformance&ContemporaryMusic At a Founded:Glance 1915 Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Total enrollment: 300 students 27 countries and 35 states represented Student to Faculty Ratio: 2:1
