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Longy Commencement Exercises
Saturday, May 13, 2023 | 1:00pm ET

(RSVP required)

Commencement Exercises

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
1:00 PM ET
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138

RECEPTION
to follow
Longy’s Zabriskie House
27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Other Commencement Week Activities

GRAD NIGHT
(for Graduate Degree Candidates only)
Thursday, May 11 | 7:00 PM
Pickman Hall

LONGY FESTIVAL
Friday, May 12 | all day (see more details and RSVP)
The Begin Anywhere Festival takes over Zabriskie House for the day. Designed, curated, and produced by Longy students, the Festival celebrates our community’s rich and deep creativity.

Longy is honored to announce Terri Lyne Carrington is our 2023 Commencement Speaker.

Terri Lyne Carrington is an NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Artist, and five-time Grammy award-winning drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She serves as Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, as well Artistic Director for both Next Jazz Legacy program (a collaboration with New Music USA) and the Carr Center in Detroit, MI.

She has performed on more than 100 recordings over her 40-year career and has toured and recorded with luminaries such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Esperanza Spalding, and numerous others. Her artistry and commitment to education has earned her honorary doctorates from York University, Manhattan School of Music and Berklee College of Music, and her curatorial work and music direction has been featured in many prestigious institutions internationally. The critically acclaimed 2019 release, Waiting Game, from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science earned the esteemed Edison Award for music and a Grammy nomination.

In fall of 2022, she authored two books, Three of a Kind (about the forming of the Allen Carrington Spalding trio) and the seminal songbook collection, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers, accompanied by the album new STANDARDS vol. 1 (Candid Records) and installation, New Standards, at Detroit’s Carr Center, as part of the Jazz Without Patriarchy Project.