Longy’s El Sistema Summer Academy is designed for students from El Sistema-inspired and community-based programs across the Greater Boston area and beyond. This program will foster friendships, enhance musical artistry, develop creative music-making skills, and promote leadership. We look forward to hosting Boston’s finest young musicians for two weeks of music immersion and inspiration.

Join us for a one week professional development residency about Collective Composition, a pedagogical approach that facilitates student improvisation as a basic building block of the compositional process. This intensive and interactive residency is embedded in Longy’s annual Sistema Summer Academy.

Dalcroze Eurhythmics uses rhythmic movement, intense listening, and improvisation to unlock creativity and open the doors to enriched and enlivened music making. Equally applicable to the music classroom and the private studio, to the beginning musician and the advanced performer, this holistic approach to musical understanding complements traditional avenues of study and practice.

Whether you’re part of an ensemble, a soloist, or a composer, there’s always something new to discover. At Longy’s Divergent Studio you’ll experience a whirlwind 10 days where composition and performance intersect in new and exciting ways.

Are you a musician with a compassionate heart ready to learn how to use your gifts as a form of palliative and therapeutic comfort care? A collaboration with MHTP, this intensive, scientifically-based summer institute allows musicians to become Certified Music Practitioners (CMPs)^TM.