For Longy’s 2022–2023 event season, we invite you to leave all preconceptions at home.
Musical experiences can have any starting point. Whether born of complex ideas, emotional impulses, or spontaneous inspiration, every music maker begins wherever they are—which is exactly where they need to be.
Just as there’s no right way, no single starting line for becoming a musician, composer, or performer, there’s no one correct entry point for us as the audience. There’s no required reading for experiencing a piece of music, no prerequisite understanding or context to bring with you to a musical experience. You come to it from wherever you are.
In relinquishing our ideas of what a musical experience should be, we open ourselves to receiving and internalizing music in a way that is unique and true to each of us.
Every artist, composer, and musician represented in this season’s program took a different path to arrive at Longy, detours and scenic routes included. We hope the stories on our stages this year inspire you to begin your own new journey, no matter where you start. Allow yourself to begin wherever you are.
When there’s no set path to follow, you become free to begin anywhere.
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Harry Otero-Rivera is a student of Carol Mastrodomenico.
This performance will take place at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA). The Imagine Orchestra, directed by Dr. Bill Banfield, returns to the ICA for Jazz Urbane Cafe: an...
Longy School of Music of Bard College is proud to present The Multifaceted Career Speaker Series which broadens personal narratives around success and inspires us to create our own diverse and...
Longy's performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Longy School of Music presents A Triple Bill of American Operas, an evening of discovery that...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Renea Li is a student of Gila Goldstein.
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Haocheng Yang is a student of Paula Majerfeld.
Longy's performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Longy School of Music presents A Triple Bill of American Operas, an evening of discovery that...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Chenyang Hu is a student of Ana Guigui.
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Xiurui Zhao is a student of Andrius Zlabys.
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Li-Chen Huang is a student of Jesse Mills.
Thanks to our partnership with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and their “Card to Culture” program, Longy School of Music of Bard College can offer free tickets to many of our diverse and innovative performance offerings. See the full list of participating “Card to Culture” organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
