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Timothy Long, Assistant Professor;
Opera Studies, Vocal Coaching, Repertoire, Accompaniment and Conducting
M.M. Eastman School of Music, 1992
Email Timothy Long at: timothy.g.long[at]gmail.com



Timothy LongTimothy Long, a young conductor of Choctaw and Creek Native American descent, is Music Director of Stony Brook Opera and Assistant to the Music Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. 2005 brought his mainstage debut at Boston Lyric Opera where he conducted Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince. The same year marked his debut performances at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where he conducted both Rigoletto and Romeo and Juliet.

In the 2005-06 season his repertoire encompassed a diverse array of styles including Le Nozze di Figaro for Stony Brook Opera, Peter Maxwell Davies’ Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot with the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen at The Juilliard School, both The Barber of Seville and Hansel and Gretel at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and The Music Teacher, an off-broadway play/opera by Wallace Shawn and Allen Shawn for The New Group, which ran at the Minetta Lane Theater for seven weeks. Previously at Stony Brook, Mr. Long has also led productions of Earl Kim’s Footfalls and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.

In 2007, Mr. Long will conduct Mark-Anthony Turnage’s controversial modern adaptation of the Oedipus story Greek at Stony Brook, Conrad Susa’s Transformations for the University of Maryland and Don Giovanni in Castres, France before returning to Boston Lyric Opera for performances of Le Nozze di Figaro and then to St. Louis for performances of The Mikado and La Traviata.

Mr. Long served as assistant conductor to Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Philharmonic for three years and was an associate conductor at New York City Opera for two years. He has conducted three tours for Boston Lyric Opera-Opera New England as well as performances at The Juilliard School, Yale Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

As a pianist he has collaborated with Susanne Mentzer, Jennifer Aylmer, William Sharp, Vinson Cole, Thomas Meglioranza and Christopheren Nomura and appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Salvatore Licitra. His chamber music partners have included the Pacifica, Euclid, Chester, and New Lyric string quartets.

Mr. Long studied piano and violin at Oklahoma City University while playing in the violin section of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. He completed his graduate work in piano performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music.

He is an artist-faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the Aspen Music Festival and School. His previous teaching positions include Yale University, The Juilliard School, and the Fondazione William Walton Masterclasses in Italy.

Contact information:
777 West End Avenue #5A
NY, NY 10025
917-714-6028
TLong35391@aol.com

CURRENT POSITIONS

State University of New York at Stony Brook- Assistant Professor
Duties include conducting, vocal coaching, classroom instruction in foreign language diction, opera workshop, and beginning conducting.

Aspen Music Festival and School- Artist Faculty
Duties include performing as a pianist and conductor, classroom instruction in 19th Century Italian, 20th Century, and 21 st Century English language operatic repertoire. Also engaged by the Art Song
and Vocal Chamber Music program as an artist teacher.

New York City Opera- Conducting Staff
Duties include serving as an assistant/cover conductor, conducting rehearsals with principal artists, and rehearsing and conducting the cover casts in dress rehearsals.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis- Assistant to the Music Director
Duties include conducting rehearsals, serving as assistant/cover conductor, overseeing all operatic rehearsals, performances, and apprentice artistsı progress.

PAST POSITIONS

Brooklyn Philharmonic- Assistant Conductor, 1999-2002.
Served as assistant/cover conductor for Music Director Robert Spano. Duties included conducting rehearsals, evaluating score submissions, conducting special performances, and giving pre-
concert lectures.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis- Music Staff, 1998-99.
Duties included musical preparation of mainstage operas, coaching apprentice artists, and giving pre-performance lectures.

Yale University School of Music- Lecturer in Song Literature and Opera, 1997-98.
Duties included musical preparation of operas and opera scenes, classroom instruction in French and 20th Century art song literature, and conducting.

The Juilliard School- Associate Coach, 1994-97.
Served as Music Director, coach, and pianist for mainstage operas and opera scenes.

CONDUCTING HISTORY

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis:
Rigoletto by Verdi, 2005.
Romeo and Juliette by Gounod, 2005.

Stony Brook Opera:
The Turn of the Screw by Britten, 2005.

Boston Lyric Opera:
The Little Prince by Rachel Portman, 2005.

New York City Opera:
La Rondine by Puccini, associate/cover conductor, 2004.

Aspen Music Festival and School:
Bernstein On Broadway, conducted vocalists and rehearsals, 2004.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis:
Nixon In China, assistant/rehearsal conductor, 2004.
Suor Angelica , assistant/rehearsal conductor, 2004.
Cavalleria Rusticana , assistant/rehearsal conductor, 2004.

Stony Brook Opera:
Footfalls by Earl Kim, 2004.
Canto by Sheila Silver, 2004.

Aspen Music Festival and School:
An Evening of Sondheim, 2003.

Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra:
Schumann Symphony #3, Webernıs Im Sommerwind, and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.
2, rehearsal conductor, 2003.

Boston Lyric Opera-Opera New England:
The Barber of Seville, New England tour, 2003.

Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra:
Composer readings, 2003.

Brooklyn Philharmonic:
Assistant conductor to Music Director Robert Spano, 1999-2002.
Concert operatic repertoire included Olivier Messiaenıs St. Franìois dıAssise, John Adamsı Nixon in China, Thomas Adesı Powder Her Face, and Christopher Theofanidisı The Cows of Apollo.

Boston Lyric Opera-Opera New England:
Donizettiıs Daughter of the Regiment, New England tour, 2002.

Contemporary Chamber Players at Stony Brook:
Stravinskyıs Three Japanese Lyrics , Ravelıs Three Poems of MallarmÄ and the Four Hindu Poems of Maurice Delage, 2002.

Brooklyn Philharmonic:
World Trade Center benefit performance of Coplandıs A Lincoln Portrait with Robert Spano as narrator, WNYC radio broadcast, 2001.

The Juilliard School:
Coplandıs The Tender Land, 2001.

Boston Lyric Opera-Opera New England:
The Magic Flute , New England tour, 2001.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis:
Otello , assistant/cover conductor, 1999.
The Pearl Fishers , assistant/cover conductor, 1999.
Arianna , American premiere by Alexander Goehr, assistant/cover conductor, 1998.
Faust , assistant/cover conductor, 1998.

Yale University:
The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullman, 1998.

Crystal Opera Consortium (Norwalk, CT):
The Binding of Isaac , world premiere by Linder Chlarson, 1998.

Aspen Music Festival and School:
Powder Her Face , American premiere by Thomas AdÅs, assistant/cover conductor, 1997.

Tsa La Gi Theater (Tahlequah, OK):
Mountain Windsong, world premiere by Linder Chlarson, 1995.

Oklahoma City University:
The Fantasticks , music director of a Far East tour, 1990.

OPERA COACHING HISTORY

Aspen Music Festival and School:
The Turn of the Screw, conducted by Richard Bado, 2004.
Bernstein On Broadway , conducted by David Zinman and Timothy Long, 2004.
La BohÅme , conducted by Julius Rudel, 2003.
Gloria: A Pig Tale , American premiere by H.K. Gruber conducted by Diego Masson, 2002.
Otello , staged concert performance conducted by David Zinman, 2001.
Golem , American premiere by John Casken conducted by Diego Masson, 2000.
Belladonna , world premiere by Bernard Rands conducted by David Zinman, 1999.
Greek , American premiere by Mark-Anthony Turnage conducted by Grant Gershon, 1998.
Renard , chamber cantata by Stravinsky conducted by James Conlon, 1998.
Powder Her Face , American premiere composed and conducted by Thomas AdÅs, 1997.
La Traviata , conducted by Scott Bergeson, 1996.
Tristan und Isolde , concert performance of Acts 2 and 3 conducted by James Conlon, 1996.
Madama Butterfly , conducted by Lawrence Foster, 1995.
Ligeia , American premiere by Augusta Read Thomas conducted by Peter Jaffe, 1995.

Brooklyn Philharmonic:
Death of Klinghoffer , by John Adams conducted by Robert Spano, 2003.
Symphony No. 5 , world premiere by Phillip Glass conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, 2000.
Cows of Apollo , world premiere by Christopher Theofanidis conducted by Robert Spano, 2002.
St. Franìois dıAssise , by Olivier Messiaen conducted by Robert Spano, 2000.
Nixon In China , by John Adams conducted by Robert Spano, 1999.
Powder Her Face , by Thomas AdÅs conducted by Robert Spano, 1998.

American Symphony Orchestra:
Manfred , Dramatisches Gedicht by Robert Schumann and conducted by Leon Botstein, 2003.

Stony Brook Opera:
Don Giovanni , conducted by David Lawton, 2003.
The Thief of Love , by Sheila Silver conducted by David Lawton, 2001.
Cosi fan tutte , conducted by David Lawton, 2000.
Mavra , by Stravinsky conducted by David Lawton, 1999.
Amahl and the Night Visitors , 1998.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis:
Nixon In China, conducted by Marin Alsop, 2004.
Suor Angelica , conducted by Stephen Lord, 2004.
Cavalleria Rusticana , conducted by Stephen Lord, 2004.
Otello , conducted by Stephen Lord, 1999.
The Pearl Fishers , conducted by Steuart Bedford, 1999.
Arianna , American premiere by Alexander Goehr conducted by Grant Llewellyn, 1998.
Faust , conducted by Emmanuel Villaume, 1998.

Fondazione William Walton Masterclasses:
LıOrmindo , by Cavalli conducted by Stephen Lord, 1999.

Boston Lyric Opera:
La Traviata , conducted by Stephen Lord, 1998.

Yale Opera:
Die Fledermaus , conducted by Lawrence Leighton Smith, 1998.

Long Beach Opera:
Hopperıs Wife , world premiere by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie conducted by Michael
Barrett, 1997.

The Juilliard School:
Transformations , by Conrad Susa conducted by Randall Behr, 1997.
The Impresario , by Mozart conducted by Randall Behr, 1997.
Elegy for Young Lovers , by Hans Werner Henze conducted by Randall Behr, 1996.
The Beggarıs Opera , by John Gay and Benjamin Britten conducted by Kenneth Merrill, 1996.
The Love for Three Oranges , by Prokofiev conducted by Randall Behr, 1995.
The Immortal Hour , by Rutland Boughton conducted by Randall Behr, 1994.

Ohio Light Opera:
Giuditta , by Franz Lehar conducted by Steven Byess, 1994.

PERFORMANCE HISTORY: PIANO/HARPSICHORD/VIOLIN

Piano Recital Appearances with :
Susanne Mentzer at the Caramoor Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS Benefit in NYC; Jennifer Aylmer at the Kyoto International Music Festival, Rockefeller
University Concert Series, and in Los Angeles for the Marilyn Horne Foundation; Salvatore
Licitra on NBCıs Today Show; Rockwell Blake at the French Embassy in Washington D.C.;
Vinson Cole at the Aspen Music Festival; Christopheren Nomura on the Lincoln Center Great
Performerıs Series, William Sharp at the Aspen Music Festival.

Chamber Music Performances with :
The New Lyric, Chester, Euclid, and Pacifica String Quartets, violist John Graham, and bassist
James Vandemark.

Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition Pianist:
Official accompanist for the New York district and Eastern regional auditions, 1996-1999.

Masterclass Pianist:
Assisted Leontyne Price, Thomas Hampson, Gerard Souzay, Bobby McFerrin, James Conlon,
Phyllis Curtin, Thomas Stewart and Evelyn Lear.

Harpsichord Performances with:
International Sejong Soloists at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall (2004) and the Aspen Music Festival (2002); and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra.

Piano Concerto Performances:
Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beethoven Society Orchestra of Washington D.C., the Sociedad Filarmonica de Conciertos Orchestra of Mexico City, the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Orchestra, and the Oklahoma City University Orchestra.

Violin Performance:
Section violinist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, 1989-90.

TEACHING HISTORY

State University of New York at Stony Brook:
Assistant professor in voice and opera, 1997-present.
Teaches private coachings for singers, conducts performances, and has taught classes in Italian, French, English and German diction, opera workshop, undergraduate masterclasses, and beginning conducting.

Aspen Music Festival and School:
Musical preparation for mainstage operas and class teacher in 19th Century Italian and 20th/21st Century English language repertoire, studio instruction for piano students in operatic repertoire,
1995-present.

Fondazione William Walton Masterclasses, Isola dıIschia, Napoli:
Faculty, 1999.

Yale University:
Lecturer in song literature and opera, 1997-98.

The Juilliard School:
Associate coach, 1994-97.
Musical preparation for mainstage operas and opera scenes performances.

EDUCATION:

Eastman School of Music- Doctoral studies in Piano Performance and Literature, 1994.
Eastman School of Music- Masterıs degree in Piano Performance and Literature, 1992.
Oklahoma City University- Bachelorıs degree in Piano Performance, 1990.