Barry Long is currently an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD. His responsibilities include direction of the jazz and wind ensemble programs, applied brass instruction, and classroom teaching of music and humanities coursework. Prior to joining the Mount faculty, he held similar positions at Roanoke College (VA), the Community Music Center of Boston (MA), and Western New England College (MA).

Long was the first to receive a doctoral degree (DMA) in Jazz Studies from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY in May of 2007. He also holds a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from ESM while serving as a faculty member in their Community Education Division and as a teaching assistant in Film Scoring. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Jazz Composition from the Berklee College of Music and has also attended the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts.

As a trumpeter and flugelhornist, Long has studied and performed with such artists as Kenny Wheeler, Bob Brookmeyer, John Clayton, Eliane Elias, Benny Carter, Jim McNeely, and Dave Stahl and maintains activity as a clinician and adjudicator. His compositional credits include honors from the Jazz Composer's Alliance as well as commissions for Clark Terry and The Kandinsky Trio. His research interests include articles for the Jazz Educators Journal, lesson plans for MENC, and presentations at the annual conferences of the IAJE, MENC, MMEA, CMS, Experience Music Project, the Black Music Culture Area of the American and Popular Culture Associations, and the Marquette Conference on Art, Faith, and Social Justice. He was recently named the recipient of the 2007-08 Dave Brubeck Collection Research Travel Grant from the University of the Pacific.