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.
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
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
Mission & Vision
More soon.