Programs Available
Artist Diploma in Early Music Performance
Master of Music Degree in Early Music Performance
Graduate Performance Diploma in Early Music

Early Music Studies at Longy
Historically informed performance plays a central role in Longy's artistic and academic life. The Early Music curriculum is rooted in a style- and repertory-based approach to music composed before 1800. Longy boasts the most extensive course offerings in historically informed performance in the United States, with specialist faculty in all areas of vocal, instrumental, and keyboard music from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century.

Weekly studio instruction and performance courses, focused on specific early repertories, form the core of each student's studies. Students also learn the basics of figured bass accompaniment and period dance. The Early Music Department Seminar brings together department majors for masterclasses, lectures, and presentations on broad technical, historical, theoretical, and aesthetic issues, while Topics in Performance Practice courses allow students to research specialized areas of study. Extracurricular activities in Boston's lively early music scene allow further opportunities for artistic and professional growth.

Performing Early Music at Longy
Early Music students perform frequently at Longy and throughout New England . Department concerts draw enthusiastic audiences, and students are fully integrated into the School's general concert life. In the past several years, degree and diploma candidates have performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival, Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP), and York (UK) Early Music Festival, and in concerts by the Waverly Consort, Harvard Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque, and Boston Bach Ensemble. Several Boston concert series regularly feature Longy Early Music students.

International Early Music Institutes at Longy
Each summer, the Medieval Institute and the International Baroque Institute at Longy (IBIL) bring together advanced performers and a distinguished faculty for a week of masterclasses, chamber coachings, concerts, lectures, and major performances.

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