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Customize Your Curriculum
Create your own opportunities, find new audiences, and make a living in unexpected ways by customizing your curriculum from a catalog of project-based courses you can’t find anywhere else. Our faculty mentors and experienced career coaches will be there to guide you.
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Performance Opportunities
Our students aren’t just redefining the canon, they’re redefining the stage and who gets to be on it. Longy facilitates countless opportunities for students to perform on campus and in the community in both conventional and unconventional spaces.
Your Future Performance Venues:
- Arrow Street Arts
- Benjamin Franklin Center
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Symphony Hall
- Cambridge Housing Authority
- Carnegie Hall
- Club Passim
- Emmanuel Church
- First Church Cambridge
- French Library
- Goddard House
- House of Blues
- Horizons for Homeless Children
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Lassell Village
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- North Cambridge Senior Center
- Nubar
- Regattabar
- Rockport Music
- Sanders Theater
- Shelter Music Boston
- TD Garden
- The Cambridge Homes
- The Green Room
- The Lilypad
- Trinity Church
- Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
- Wally’s
- And more…
You Matter Every Time You Show Up
At Longy, you never get lost in a large orchestra. You find yourself in small ensembles where you get lots of individual attention. That’s by design.
In fact, Longy’s intimate size and emphasis on student-centered learning means your voice and vision are crucial to any group you’re a part of.
“Longy has been an incredibly nurturing environment for me to develop as a musician and explore new avenues of creativity.”
-Nina Kasper (MM 2024), Vocal Studies | Multi-Instrumentalist
Fine-Tune Your Artistic “Why”
What defines your artistry?
What do you care about most?
What impact do you want to have in the world?
From your first day, we guide you through a reflective practice that informs your artist statement—an evolving document that serves as your North Star during your Longy experience and beyond.
MEET YOUR CAREER COACHES
We Choose Our Faculty Differently
Our award-winning faculty and guest artists are truly multifaceted leaders who reflect the practical and artistic talents our students need to build a modern life in music.
EXPLORE OUR FACULTY
“We encourage students to find their own music, no matter how different. And faculty members are encouraged to devise classes and repertoire that haven’t been taught before.”
-Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Composition Faculty