Our Leadership

Myran Parker-Brass, Chair, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional musician, music educator, and administrator, with over thirty years experience providing access to quality arts education for schools, families and the broader community. In 2011, Myran joined the Boston Public Schools (BPS) as Executive Director for the Arts providing strategic vision/planning and building capacity to deepen arts education with a focus on access, equity and quality for all students. Before joining BPS Myran was the Director of Education for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) for twenty years, building and supporting arts education for all Massachusetts communities. Myran was the first Chair of the Experiential Education Program at Longy Schol of Music, creating and implementing the graduate program which trains Longy students to be teaching artists. Myran currently serves on the Arts Education Advisory Council for the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Board of Overseers for the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Board of Directors for the Boston Children’s Chorus, Roxbury Community College Foundation, and Project STEP (String Training Program for Minority Students). Myran continues work as a professional musician, performing in the United States, Europe and South America.

Wayman Chin joined Longy’s faculty in 1994. From 2008-2020, he served as Dean of the Conservatory and for 13 years, also served as Chair of the Chamber Music Program. In 2007, he was awarded Longy’s George Seaman Award for Excellence in the Art of Teaching. In 2020, he was named Dean Emeritus. Mr. Chin earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School and a Master of Music degree from Yale University.  Pianist Wayman Chin has performed widely throughout the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom. Devoted to chamber music playing, Mr. Chin has collaborated with artists such as the Pacifica Quartet, Cassatt String Quartet, violinist Eric Rosenblith, violist Masumi Rostad, cellist Thomas Kraines, sopranos Nancy Armstrong and Maria Jette and baritone Thomas Meglioranza. For twelve seasons, he was a member of the artist faculty at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival and ​for five years, performed and taught at the Stamford International Music Festival in England.   ​He also taught previously at UMass Dartmouth and on the Music Program faculty of the Winter Cycle at the Banff Centre in Canada.