Hailed as artists who play with "cohesiveness of purpose, absolute accuracy of execution and a near-spiritual transparency", the Long sisters placed first in the 1997 Ellis Duo Piano Competition sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs. In addition to the First Prize, the Long Duo also won the Best Performance of American Music Award, and was immediately invited to perform throughout the United States and Asia. Their performances were broadcast on National Public Radio, WRR in Dallas among others. In a raving review from the Washington Post, the Long sisters were praised for "putting new life into duo piano recitals". Most recently, Long Duo performed in the Weill Recital Hall Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center New York, Dallas Museum of Arts, Phillips Gallery and Embassy Concert Series in Washington D.C., Spoletto Festival in Charleston, SC, Concert Series of Plano Symphony and Laredo Symphony Orchestras, as well as Concert Halls in Calgary, Canada and Wu-hang, Sheng-Yang in China among others. They were invited to appear in the ‘Outstanding Chinese Musicians’ Series in the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan. And subsequently they were invited to play throughout Taiwan in April 2005.
