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.
Percussionist, Composer, Public Artist, Entrepreneur https://mfdynamics.com/ Named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe, and Boston’s Best 2018 "Creative Catalyst” by the Improper Bostonian, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer,...
Director of Institute for Music Leadership, Founder and former Director of the Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at NEC, Flutist Rachel Roberts has navigated both the non-profit performing arts and higher education...
Cellist, Executive Director at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Former Artistic Director for Project STEP With nearly 20 years of experience as an arts leader, educator, and cellist, Javier...
Cuatro, Composer, Educator Fabiola Mendez is a Puerto Rican cuatro player, educator, and composer that has taken part in a musical movement, crossing over the lines of genres such as...
Conductor, Artistic Director and Founder of Refugee Orchestra Project, Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater Lidiya Yankovskaya is a fiercely committed advocate for Slavic masterpieces, operatic rarities, and contemporary works...
