Conservatory: General Information
Message from the Dean
A generation ago, a good ear, solid technique, sensitivity, and superb work ethic could put a young musician in good stead for a successful career.
While all these attributes remain crucial and elemental, today's young musician needs much more.
As society changes, so do its expectations of artists. Collaboration is the new watchword. Young musicians can no longer simply be part of the world: they must be in the world.
Over the next few years, developing your versatility will be as important as developing your artistic voice. In fact, they will be one and the same.
Why is that? Because in the years ahead, poets and writers, dancers and educators, scientists and historians will be looking to you, both for your ideas and for your music. Together, you will take creative experience to a new and exciting place.
Nearly a century ago, Georges Longy set out to start a school that would train "true musicians." Today, we remain committed to that ideal. We want you, our students, to recognize the power of teaching, to be clear thinkers, to compose, improvise, and understand narrative and poetry. We want you to acknowledge - and to understand - the underpinnings that join the arts to all human experience.
In fact, we want the world for you.
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 2011-2012 (pdf format).
