Gain new knowledge, learn to apply the arts to your medical practice, and give yourself a creativity break in this 8 week workshop series!

Welcome to LSO Spotlights! Meet some of the newest musicians to join Longwood Symphony and get a glimpse of their musical background, work life, and what LSO means to them. We truly appreciate each one our wonderful orchestra members and are grateful for all of their musical contributions.

Enjoy some of the highlights from Longwood Symphony's first ever Virtual Gala on November 14, 2020 - including all of the fantastic musical performances.

Watch now on YouTube!

In October 2020, we were proud to be able to continue supporting our Community Partners with a virtual event. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility hosted an excellent evening of live music, engaging discussion with former Secretary of Defense William Perry, and updates on how they are fulfilling their important missions.

The event is available to watch via YouTube.

Although unable to gather in person, the LSO brass players are still making music! Here they are performing "La Peri Fanfare" by Paul Dukas.

Longwood Symphony musicians have been sharing the joy and comfort of live music with hospitals and senior living facilities around Boston through the "LSO On Call" program. This summer, we've expanded into outdoor spaces at local hospitals to thank and celebrate the incredible healthcare providers who are working tirelessly to heal our community.

Enjoy a few short clips and photos from recent performances!

“Where do healers find comfort? For some U.S. doctors and caregivers, the answer is in music. Jeffrey Brown went to Newton, Massachusetts, recently to see how medical professionals are regenerating their spirits -- and becoming better providers in the process.”

On September 18, PBS NewsHour featured a segment about the medical musicians around the country who turn to music for comfort and healing. Some Longwood Symphony musicians have been participating in the National Virtual Medical Orchestra, which brings together musicians from the healthcare field across the country to make virtual performances.

Live from quarantine! Musicians of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra perform the 3rd Movement of Haydn's 95th Symphony from the comfort and safety of their own homes.

The musicians of the orchestra have stepped up to Anthony McGill’s #TakeTwoKnees challenge in protest of racial injustice, intolerance, and hatred. While we are adding our voices in this small way now, we will join our orchestra colleagues to uproot and dismantle racism across the field.

Get to know the Longwood Symphony musicians as we ask them about life during COVID, why music is important, and more.

While we’re apart, the musicians of the Longwood Symphony are still making music. Watch and listen below as members play from their living rooms, backyards, or home offices.

Dr. Lisa Wong discusses Boston Hope, healing music for recovering COVID patients, and “busking to celebrate nurses in this interview with WHRB 95.3, including an exhilarating recording of LSO performing Rhapsody in Blue on March 7, 2020.

The Longwood Symphony Orchestra’s 19/20 season has arrived – welcome! Over this season’s four concert cycles, the program mix includes music spanning 250 years, from Mozart to John Harbison. During our musical journey we will visit composers from Germany, Austria, Russia, The Orkney Islands, and, of course, the US.

Dear LSO Friends,

It’s late summer, and I am thinking about the new season soon to begin… rehearsal strategies and concerts in Jordan Hall, the excellent repertoire, and introducing you to four inspiring soloists. In my mind’s eye, I see musicians working hard, many fresh from rounds at the hospital, playing with a sense of commitment and passion while joyfully sharing our music.

Longwood Symphony Orchestra was featured on WCVB Channel 5's Chronicle. Take a peek and learn what drives our fantastic musicians in both medicine and music, featuring Julie Reimann, Terry Buchmiller, Ronny Feldman, and Nick Adams.

Thanks to countless supporters, volunteers, and donors, our annual gala was a great succes. Held at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Boston, the event featured something for everyone... delightful music, a luminescent honoree, and a rip-roaring live auction. When all was said and done, $115,000 was raised to continue the LSO's mission of healing through music, medicine, and service.

Innovation. Discovery. Leadership.

NEXT WEEK, we’d like to invite you to join us as we celebrate these three qualities through discussion and music.

At the LSO, these qualities inform what we do, from our Healing Art of Music Program to our Community Conversations and to LSO on Call.

Longtime LSO trumpeter, Dr. Wolfram Goessling, was recently appointed as the new Harvard Medical School director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program and the new advisory dean and director of the Irving M. London Society.

Join members of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra for a special HUBweek performance at the Harvard Ed Portal in Brighton. In this hybrid lecture/performance, you'll hear from luminaries in the fields of music, medicine, and beyond sharing their research about leadership and experience leading in groups large and small. The Longwood Symphony Orchestra will explore the topic through a curated set of performances demonstrating the varied ways leadership can function in both music and medicine.