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	Timothy Long is a distinguished conductor, pianist, and composer of Muscogee and Choctaw descent who is Artistic and Music Director of Opera at Eastman School of Music, and an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. He is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, and his mother is Choctaw.

			'''Timothy Long''' (born December 19, 1967)<ref name="AMG">https://www.allmusic.com/artist/timothy-long-mn0002259182</ref> is an American conductor and pianist with an active performing career in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the ] of the ].<ref name="OK">{{cite news\|url=http://newsok.com/former-oklahoman-finds-career-playing-conducting/article/3573987\|title=Former Oklahoman finds a career that combines playing and conducting\|author=David Stanley Ford\|date=June 5, 2011\|work=]}}</ref>
	At the age of 16, Tim made his piano concerto debut with the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, and has since performed as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Lawton (OK) Philharmonic, the Beethoven Society Orchestra of Washington DC, the Sociedad Filarmonica de Conciertos of Mexico City, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Orchestra, the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and the Eastman Philharmonia.

			He was born in ], United States.<ref name="AMG"/> Long is a member of the faculty at the ]<ref>http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/long_timothy.html</ref> He is music director of ], and assistant to the music director of ].<ref>http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/Music.nsf/pages/long</ref>
	His work on Thomas Adès’s operatic tour-de-force Powder Her Face at the Aspen Music Festival led to his appointment as assistant conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and he was subsequently named an associate conductor at the New York City Opera.

			Long is founding conductor of The Coast Orchestra, an all-] orchestra of classically trained musicians. He has conducted the ensemble in performances at the ]’s ], the ], and ].<ref>http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu/turning-point-hiddenmenu-62?id=37</ref> The group performs music including the original score for a newly restored print of ]’ 1914 film '']''.<ref>http://www.okcu.edu/news/?id=2627</ref>
	After early years playing as a violinist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Tim’s passion for symphonic conducting has resulted in engagements with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Prince George Symphony, the Regina Symphony, the Eastman Philharmonia, the Prague Summer Nights Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, and the Trondheim Sinfonietta. His operatic conducting engagements have included such companies as Boston Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Anchorage Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, City Opera Vancouver, The Juilliard School, Yale Opera, the New York City Opera, and off-Broadway with The New Group.

			For three years, Long served as assistant conductor to ] at the ]. He was an associate conductor at ] for two years.<ref>http://www.funkhouserartists.com/Timothy_Long/</ref>
	At City Opera Vancouver, Tim conducted the 2017 World Premiere of Missing, a groundbreaking new work by Marie Clements and Brian Current about the 5,000 missing Indigenous women in Canada. In 2019, he conducted a Canadian tour of Missing with Pacific Opera Victoria, the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. This extraordinary composition is the first opera to be sung in both the Gitxsan and English languages.

			In 2008, ] released Long’s first recording as conductor and pianist, ''The Music Teacher'', a play/opera by ] and ].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.bridgerecords.com/pages/catalog/9248.htm \|title=The Music Teacher: An Opera by Allen Shawn - Bridge Records, Inc. \|website=Bridgerecords.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510135756/http://www.bridgerecords.com/pages/catalog/9248.htm \|archive-date=2008-05-10}}</ref>
	Recent highlights include the World Premiere of How Bright the Sunlight by Anthony Davis and Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation citizen, 23rd US Poet Laureate) with the Eastman Philharmonia, the American Premiere of Missing for his debut at Anchorage Opera, Handel’s Semele for Wolf Trap Opera, and the In Harmony: Side by Side series with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center. This season included Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos: Prologue, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites for Eastman Opera Theatre, and he joined the Metropolitan Opera as an assistant conductor for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program’s Orchestra Workshop,

			Long studied piano and violin at ] while playing in the violin section of the ]. He completed his graduate work in piano performance and literature at the ]. He will now be returning to Eastman where he will serve as the Opera Music Director.<ref name="OK"/>
	As a pianist and harpsichordist, Tim has performed throughout the world at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, the Kennedy Center, National Sawdust, the Kimmel Center, Jordan Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Herkules Hall in Munich, Dvořák Hall in Prague, La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Caramoor Festival, and the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, among many others.

		⚫	==References==
	Tim’s recordings include Alburnum, with internationally renowned baritone Brian Mulligan (Bright Shiny Things, 2022), Beauty Intolerable: Songs of Sheila Silver (Albany Records, 2021), the American Classics recording of Dominick Argento song cycles with Brian Mulligan (2017 Naxos), the Opera America Songbook (Opera America, 2012), and The Music Teacher (Bridge Records, 2008), starring Wallace Shawn, Parker Posey, and Elizabeth Berkley. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CBS Sunday Morning.

	Tim is passionate about his role as president of The Plimpton Foundation (theplimptonfoundation.org) which promotes the work of Native American and First Nations performing artists through scholarships, grants, and commissions.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Long \|first1=Timothy \|title=TimothyLongmusic.com \|url=https://www.timothylongmusic.com/about}}</ref>

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Timothy Long (born December 19, 1967) is an American conductor and pianist with an active performing career in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma.

He was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, United States. Long is a member of the faculty at the Stony Brook University He is music director of Stony Brook Opera, and assistant to the music director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Long is founding conductor of The Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestra of classically trained musicians. He has conducted the ensemble in performances at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, the American Museum of Natural History, and Rutgers University. The group performs music including the original score for a newly restored print of Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters.

For three years, Long served as assistant conductor to Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He was an associate conductor at New York City Opera for two years.

In 2008, Bridge Records released Long’s first recording as conductor and pianist, The Music Teacher, a play/opera by Wallace and Allen Shawn.

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 will now be returning to Eastman where he will serve as the Opera Music Director.

References

^ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/timothy-long-mn0002259182
^ David Stanley Ford (June 5, 2011). "Former Oklahoman finds a career that combines playing and conducting". The Oklahoman.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/long_timothy.html
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/Music.nsf/pages/long
http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu/turning-point-hiddenmenu-62?id=37
http://www.okcu.edu/news/?id=2627
http://www.funkhouserartists.com/Timothy_Long/
"The Music Teacher: An Opera by Allen Shawn - Bridge Records, Inc". Bridgerecords.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-10.

External links

Interview with Timothy Long

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