The Longwood Chorus
Artistic Team
Jeremy Faust, Artistic Director
Jeremy Samuel Faust MD, MS, MA was founding artistic director of the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco (2010 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming). He served as board president and artistic advisor for Roomful of Teeth (2014 GRAMMY award for Best Classical Chamber Music Performance, and premiering ensemble of Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices, recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music) from 2010-2020. He has conducted the Canticum Novum Singers, the UC Davis University Chorus and Chamber singers, and sung professionally at the Grand Teton Music Festival, with the Choir of Men and Boys at St. Thomas Church in New York, and with Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA.
Dr. Faust is an attending emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Mass General Brigham Division of Health Services Research and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. His research and writings have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and others, and he has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, The 92nd Street Y in New York, and The National Academies of Sciences.
Guanghao Yu, Assistant Artistic Director
Guanghao Yu, Assistant Conductor Guanghao is a choral conductor and vocalist who aspires to heal through both music and medicine. He studied conducting and voice at Williams College, where he directed the college choral program during 2020-2021 as a student. He also co-founded and co-directed In Echo, a lower-voice chamber choir which used music to serve and engage the Williamstown community. He received the music department’s Arthur Judson prize for his contributions to the choral program. As a vocalist, Guanghao has sung the roles of Dr. Faust (Die Fledermaus, Williams Opera Workshop) and Narrator/Mysterious Man (Into the Woods, Off-Brand Opera, professional debut), in addition to various solos in choral concerts and recitals. Guanghao is currently an MS in Medical Sciences student at Boston University. He previously worked as a clinical research coordinator at Boston Medical Center and is passionate about social determinants of health in nephrology. He received his BA in Biology and Classics from Williams College in 2021.​
Arya Rao, Assistant Artistic Director
Arya Rao is a third-year MD-PhD candidate in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD program and an accomplished conductor, composer, vocalist, and saxophonist. A graduate of Columbia University’s Music Performance Program (in addition to her primary degree in Biochemistry and Computer Science), Arya was awarded the distinction of Core Scholar for her compositions for women’s chorus, and was selected to perform a saxophone duet at Carnegie Hall in April 2022. She served as Principal Alto Saxophonist and Composer for the Columbia University Chamber Ensemble Program, Principal Saxophonist and Orchestra Manager of the Columbia University Orchestra, and Music Director of the Columbia University New Opera Workshop, where she oversaw the production of contemporary and original operas. She has also served as a Guest Conductor for the Ferris State University Community Band.
Driven by a belief in the power of music to inspire and connect, Arya is thrilled to serve a Conducting Associate for the Longwood Chorus. After four seasons as a vocalist with the ensemble, she is honored and grateful for the opportunity to lead and work with this vibrant community of musicians and healers.
D.J. Cleavinger, Rehearsal Pianist
A native of Cincinnati, OH, D.J. Cleavinger grew up in an array of artistic activities: piano and voice study, musical theatre productions, studio art classes, and various genres of choral singing. He completed his Bachelor of Music in 2021 as a student of Siok Lian Tan and Frank Huang at Miami University of Ohio, where he also studied organ with Heather MacPhail. In 2025, he completed his Master of Music at Boston University under tutelage of Pavel Nersessian. He has also studied with esteemed artists such as Asiya Korepanova, Dror Biran, Kenneth Griffiths, Jihye Chang. D.J. has appeared in recitals and festivals in the United States, as well as in Austria, Germany, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Since age 14, he has served in various churches as pianist, organist, and vocalist, and is currently Director of Traditional Music at Faith Lutheran Church in Andover, MA.
