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

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. 

Since early appointments as associate conductor at the New York City Opera and assistant conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, he has had engagements with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Eastman Philharmonia, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Continuum Ensemble, Boston Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and off-Broadway with The New Group. 

An important part of his artistic development was the opera Missing, which he has conducted at City Opera Vancouver, Pacific Opera Victoria, the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, Anchorage Opera, and Toronto Summer Music. 

Tim is president of The Plimpton Foundation, which promotes the work of Native American and First Nations performing artists through scholarships, grants, and commissions. 2024 marked the world premiere of Tim’s annual commissioning  initiative, the North American Indigenous Songbook. Between the Moab Music Festival, the Eastman School of Music and the North American Indigenous Songbook, he has commissioned over 21 new compositions for the genres of song, chamber music, and orchestral composition. 

He has appeared on NPR’s More Than Music, CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, NBC’s Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN’s First of All with Victor Blackwell, and recently had a featured profile in the New York Times.