Welcome to the Conservatory
 Dear Parents and Prospective Conservatory Students,
We invite you to consider Longy for your musical education. What distinguishes Longy from the other schools? Longy prepares musicians to make a difference in the world. We make a school-wide commitment to offer programs that provide our students with opportunities to engage with the world in new ways and to help each student realize his or her individual potential.
Since its founding, Longy has been home to world-class faculty. For all students, Longy provides a distinguished faculty that promotes profound musical understanding and technical mastery, encourages growth of imagination and fosters inquiry about the role of music and the musician in the larger world. There are 142 faculty members; 41 are considered full-time, based on their teaching load.
Opportunities for performing abound. Conservatory students may be found one evening performing at the Regattabar, a popular jazz club at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square. Others might be found playing for youngsters at the Boston Children’s Museum, or raising the spirits of patients at a Boston area hospital.
While some may question whether a career in music is wise during challenging economic times, Longy alumni have done quite well. Recent Longy graduates have gone directly into the ranks of major performing organizations, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, New World Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Orquestra del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (Valencia, Spain), Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and the Zurich Opera House Orchestra. Others have gained entrance to such institutions as Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Eastman School of Music, Hartt School, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, New England Conservatory, and leading universities for graduate or further graduate study. Still others have joined touring companies, been admitted to apprenticeship programs, worked as freelance performers, embarked on teaching careers and contributed to the growth of community outreach programs.
Explore the pages of our website, take the Virtual Tour, see if the “Longy Difference” is right for you.
Sincerely,
Wayman Chin
Dean of the Conservatory The 200 graduate and undergraduate
students comprising the Conservatory at Longy enjoy
a rare opportunity to work as colleagues-in-training
with Longy’s
gifted faculty, a group of 150 artist-teachers. Excellence
and rigor, and support and collaboration are all hallmarks
of the Longy Conservatory education. Longy’s
Conservatory offers the following Programs
of Study: Master of Music
Degree, Graduate
Performance Diploma, Artist Diploma, Dalcroze
Certificate and License, Undergraduate
Diploma, and Bachelor
of Music Degree (in connection
with Emerson College). Majors are offered in the following Academic Departments: Chamber
Music, Collaborative
Piano, Composition, Dalcroze
Eurhythmics, Early
Music, Modern American
Music, Opera, Organ, Piano, Strings, Vocal
Performance, Woodwinds
and Brass.
Click here to download the Conservatory Catalog 2008-2009 (pdf format).
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