A four-octave voice.
Strings from another world.
Juilliard-trained harpist and soprano Dr. Marsha Long plays weddings, liturgies, and concerts across San Diego — sixteen instruments, fourteen languages, one unmistakable sound.
- Juilliard · Doctorate of Musical Arts
- Conservatoire National de St. Maur · Highest honours
Now Performing
Sunday Masses at St. Mary's, Escondido
Marsha is currently providing music at the 10:30 AM Sunday Mass — the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays each month — at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Escondido.
She also sings and plays harp or keyboard for feast-day and solemnity noon Masses, weddings, funerals, and Quinceañeras, in English or Spanish — throughout the San Diego Diocese, with concerts at California's historic missions.
A San Diego wedding harpist and soprano, trained at Juilliard.
Marsha Long has spent her life in rooms built for sound — cathedrals with ninety-foot ceilings, mission chapels with two hundred years of plaster in the walls, concert halls where one held note can stop a room. She holds two Master's degrees and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School, and a Diplôme de Concertiste from France's Conservatoire National de St. Maur, earned with highest honors.
The credentials matter less than what they let her do. She sings in fourteen languages and plays sixteen instruments — concert and Celtic harp, the great pipe organs of St. John the Divine, the Hungarian cimbalom, the Egyptian kanoon — and she can sing while she plays, which almost no harpist can.
Some rooms ask for a harp.
Mission chapels at Christmas. All Saints' vigils. Concert stages and cathedral naves. Marsha plays where the architecture is already doing half the work.
As beautiful as your love.
Most of your guests will arrive twenty minutes early and sit in silence — or in the sound of a playlist through a portable speaker. A harp changes that. It fills the room before anything has happened and tells everyone, without a word, that something is about to.
Every rehearsal has a co-star.
Marsha's tuxedo cat turns up at church, on the organ bench, and in the wings. He has opinions about tempo.
