Biography
Dr. Marsha Long
Harpist, soprano, recording artist. Juilliard doctorate, French conservatoire honours, and a career spent in rooms that were built to carry sound.
The training
Trained where music is taken seriously.
Two Master's degrees and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School. A Diplôme de Concertiste from France's Conservatoire National de St. Maur, earned with highest honours. Years of the kind of practice that doesn't photograph well and makes everything afterward look effortless.
[EXPAND — years, teachers, notable early performances]
Sixteen instruments
Most musicians spend a lifetime on one instrument. Marsha went the other way.
Harps
- Concert harp
- Celtic harp
Keyboards
- The pipe organs at St. John the Divine
- NYU and St. Columba Cathedral
- Steinway pianos (U.S. and Hamburg)
- Harpsichord
World instruments
- Hungarian cimbalom
- Egyptian kanoon
- African xylophone
- Talking drum
[CONFIRM FULL LIST — 16 total]
Fourteen languages
A hymn sung in the language it was written in lands differently. Marsha sings in fourteen.
- Latin
- English
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Spanish
- Gaelic
- French
- German
- Polish
- Lebanese
- Yoruba
- Tagalog
- Greek
[CONFIRM 14th LANGUAGE — thirteen listed]
Mission & Vision
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