Festival Schools
Every summer, Chautauqua Institution brings some of the world’s most talented musicians, vocalists, dancers and visual artists to the grounds for educational and performance opportunities amid our world-class culture and arts environment.
Conducting Fellowship
The David Effron Conducting Fellowship is awarded to a gifted student pursuing a career in conducting. The applicant must be enrolled in or recently graduated (within the last year) from a graduate conducting program.
Dance
The Chautauqua School of Dance, under the direction of Sasha Janes, is well known for the unique opportunity it affords students to study with master teachers within a small studio environment.
Instrumental Program
Each summer we enroll 80 of the most promising young instrumentalists from the United States and abroad to join us for an exciting summer of music-making.
Piano Program
The piano program offers plentiful lessons, classes, and performance opportunities, guided by an exceptional internationally-renowned faculty.
Opera Conservatory
The Chautauqua Opera Conservatory is a five-week intensive educational program that seeks to offer the highest caliber of training for the young singer, 18 and older.
Theater Conservatory
Chautauqua Theater Company is committed to developing the next generation of theater artists. The heart of CTC’s educational programming is the Conservatory. We bring together top emerging theater artists from around the country for hands-on training and work experience helping to bridge the gap between artist training and professional careers.
Chautauqua Connections
The Chautauqua Connections Program seeks to enhance the student or early-career artist support system by linking them with a CHQ individual or family.
School of Art
The Chautauqua School of Art, serving students and emerging artists, is an incubator of inclusive and expansive programming in the visual arts composed of classes, workshops and one-on-one time with mentors covering all media.
Contribute to Student Scholarships
It is rare that in the course of our everyday actions we have the unique opportunity to so directly shape the life of a young person and to help propel his or her artistic future. And yet, that is precisely what a scholarship gift does.