During the 2025-26 season, William Long makes his HGO debut in Family Day for Hansel and Gretel. In 2024, Long was awarded a Grammy for his work on the Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Terence Blanchard’s Champion. He is a 2023 and 2025 recipient of a Career Assistance Grant from the Solti Foundation. Recent highlights include his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra at The Barbican; Carmen at Washington National Opera; the Centennial Open House Concert for San Francisco Opera; and the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. During the 2024-25 season, Long returned to the Metropolitan Opera for a new production of Golijov’s Ainadamar and made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Additional debuts included conducting at the Merola Opera Program and covering engagements with the San Francisco Symphony and Detroit Opera. Long continued his relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra where he has conducted and assisted on a wide variety of programs since 2020, working with Sir Simon Rattle and Gianandrea Noseda. He also continued his posts as Guest Conductor and Teaching Artist at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where he most recently conducted a new production of Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges. His previous work has included covering Fire Shut Up In My Bones and Champion at the Metropolitan Opera; and appearances as Cover Conductor at the Kennedy Center for productions of La bohème, Carmen, Eugene Onegin, and Candide, as well as the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up. Long has worked with San Francisco Opera as Assistant Conductor on Lohengrin, Arabella, Hansel and Gretel, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and the world premiere of John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra.