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April 15, 2022 | Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Institution News

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Announces 2022 Season

Institution, CSO Musicians Reach New Contract Agreement

Chautauqua Institution today announced that it has reached an agreement with the musicians of its resident Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra on modifications to and an extension of the musicians’ collective bargaining agreement. The Institution and CSO concurrently announced the ensemble’s 2022 season, which marks a return to a typical Chautauqua Amphitheater performance schedule under the baton of Music Director Rossen Milanov.

The memorandum of understanding extends the musicians’ contract for four years, through the 2025 season, and returns the CSO to its regular schedule of 20 to 24 concerts annually during an eight-week summer season. With musicians’ per-service compensation increases of 3.2% each year, the Institution commits to an investment of approximately $9 million in direct CSO expenses over the life of the contract. In addition to this direct budget, the Institution has committed to additional and continued infrastructure support for the CSO, including production and key positions such as CSO Managing Director Kimberly Schuette and Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts Laura Savia.

“This agreement ensures that the CSO continues to be a vibrant part of artistic life at Chautauqua through and beyond our community’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2024, and we’re elated that our patrons in 2022 will see a triumphant return to full-scale symphonic music in the Amphitheater. The Institution is making a sizeable investment in our symphony, demonstrating our resolute commitment to classical music,” said Michael E. Hill, president of Chautauqua Institution. “I am grateful to the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra musicians for their partnership in reaching a new agreement, and especially in a way that elevates our organization-wide inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) work.”

The updated CBA includes revisions to further advance equitable and fair auditions, with procedures developed in conjunction with CSO musicians in response to new guidelines published by the Sphinx Organization, a social-justice nonprofit that advocates for the power of diversity in the arts. The CBA also permits a short-term expansion of the CSO’s Diversity Fellows program to fill vacancies in a way that works toward the larger goal of having CSO personnel reflect a more diverse representation of musicians. These initiatives are aligned with IDEA imperatives articulated in the Institution’s overall 2019–28 strategic plan, 150 Forward.

“I am incredibly proud of the deep work that musicians and administrators collaborated on last summer as we gathered to consider how we would respond to the new guidelines from the Sphinx Organization. These conversations were part of our shared goal to make our audition process more equitable,” said Deborah Sunya Moore, Institution senior vice president and chief program officer. “I’m grateful to our visionary musicians for recognizing the long-term importance and opportunity represented in these new and improved practices. We are excited for the CSO to model how a professional orchestra can build upon a long history of performance excellence by expanding opportunity and equity.”

The changes to the audition process will have an immediate effect. Like most orchestras, the CSO has seen an increase in retirements during the past two pandemic years, with 16 positions currently open across its ranks. Auditions to fill several of the openings are scheduled for the upcoming summer.

“This is the right time to encourage both long- and short-term strategies that will diversify our orchestra for the future, ensuring that the CSO remains a critical part of Chautauqua’s strategic plan and the international effort for this field to more widely represent the people we hope to engage with,” Milanov said. “I am grateful for the music made by our retiring members and excited for the future of this fine orchestra!” 

CSO member Leslie Linn, trumpet, served as chair of the musicians’ negotiations committee.  

“We are excited to have a solid four-year commitment to keep the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra on the Amphitheater stage and performing for our Chautauqua family,” Linn said. “The orchestra members are among the most welcoming musicians in the industry and are pleased that our audition language will reflect our continued commitment to fairness.”

2022 Season

The CSO will offer 24 performances in 2022, with concerts in Weeks One through Nine of the Chautauqua Summer Assembly. Members will also offer support for Chautauqua Opera Company productions. It will be the first summer since 2019 that a full-size Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will play a full complement of summer concerts, including the return of a number of popular concert soloists, including violinist Ray Chen, cellist Pablo Ferrández, pianists Sara Davis Buechner, Christopher Taylor and Alexander Gavrylyuk, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and popular classical and folk recording artist Rhiannon Giddens.

The 2022 season will also feature the first-ever performance by the orchestra not to take place on the Institution grounds, as the ensemble will perform a special concert on Aug. 12 at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in nearby Jamestown. Originally planned for 2020, the initiative is made possible by the Fund for Downtown Programming awarded through the Jamestown Local Development Corporation and made possible by the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI). The concert, titled “Aretha: A Tribute,” under the baton of Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz, will feature all-star singer and Broadway favorite Capathia Jenkins and bass Darryl Williams. The program includes iconic Aretha hits such as “Respect,” “Think,” “A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools,” “Amazing Grace,” and many more.

The Jamestown performance represents a first-time undertaking for the 93-year-old orchestra, following the Institution’s vision to expand its impact by taking Chautauqua’s celebrated mission and programs beyond the grounds. Tickets to this special performance are available beginning in May and can be purchased online (reglenna.com), by phone (716-484-7070) or in person at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts Box Office located at 116 East 3rd Street, Jamestown, NY.

Tickets for all Chautauqua Amphitheater performances are available by phone at 716-357-6250. Current walk-up and phone hours for the Chautauqua Ticket Office, located in the Dr. Robert R. Hesse Welcome and Business Center, are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday–Friday (closed weekends and holidays). Online sales at tickets.chq.org begin May 3.

2022 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Repertoire

Subject to change

Thursday, June 30, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Opening Night”

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
J.S. Smith/Damrosch: The Star-Spangled Banner  
Jessie Montgomery: Banner  
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43  

Saturday, July 2, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m. EDT 
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Ray Chen plays Mendelssohn” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Ray Chen, violin
  
Antonin Dvořák: In Nature’s Realm Overture, B.168, op. 91  
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64  
Claude Debussy: La Mer  

Monday, July 4, 2022 ∙ 8 p.m. 
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Independence Day Celebration” 

Stuart Chafetz, conductor  
Dee Donasco, soprano
  

Thursday, July 7, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Passion and Struggle” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
  
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18  
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, op. 65  

Saturday, July 9, 2022 ∙ 7:30 p.m.
Aladdin Live in Concert with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Stuart Chafetz, conductor  

Thursday, July 14, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Wendy Bryn Harmer and Barber” 

Gemma New, conductor  
Wendy Bryn Harmer, soprano  

Samuel Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, op. 23a  
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24  
Ludwig van Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, op. 65 
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25 (“Classical”)  

Saturday, July 16, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “The Chevalier: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Brendon Elliott, violin  

Concert Theatre Works 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Visions from Another Land” 

Tania Miller, conductor   
Sara Davis Buechner, piano  

Bedrich Smetana: Vltava (Moldau) from Má vlast (My Fatherland)  
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Kingdom of Silence  
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37  

Wednesday, July 20, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Fateful Encounter” 

Yue Bao, conductor  
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, op. 90 (“Italian”)  
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67  

Thursday, July 21, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Music School Festival Orchestra: “Mahler’s First Symphony”

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major  

Saturday, July 23, 2022 ∙ 7:30 p.m.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra 

Stuart Chafetz, conductor  

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Schumann and Tchaikovsky” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Martin Helmchen, piano  

Richard Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54  
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 (“Pathetique”)  

Thursday, July 28, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Christopher Taylor, piano  

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D.417 (“Tragic”) 
Adolphus Hailstork: Three Spirituals  
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 72 (“Emperor”)  

Saturday, July 30, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
The Mother Of Us All 

Chautauqua Opera Company & Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra 

Thursday, August 4, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Susan Graham Sings Opera and Broadway” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano  

Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, op. 9  
Luigi Boccherini: Quatro Versioni Originali della Ritirata Notturna di Madrid  
Additional works to be announced. 

Saturday, August 6, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Opera Pops” 

Stuart Chafetz, conductor  

Sunday, August 7, 2022 ∙ 2:30 p.m. 
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Sunday Matinee “American Vista” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
J.S. Smith/Damrosch: The Star-Spangled Banner  
Charles Ives: Variations on ‘America’  
Adolphus Hailstork: “Kum Bah Ya” from Three Spirituals  
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Symphonic Picture  
Additional works to be announced

Thursday, August 11, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Elgar’s Cello Concerto” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Pablo Ferrández, cello
  
Derek Bermel: A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace  
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85  
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, op. 50  

Friday, August 12, 2022 ∙ 7:30 p.m. — Jamestown Runout* 
“Aretha: A Tribute” with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra 

Stuart Chafetz, conductor 
Capathia Jenkins and Darryl Williams, vocalists

*This event will be held at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, New York. Visit reglenna.com for tickets, on sale in May.

Saturday, August 13, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
The Washington Ballet with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Rossen Milanov, conductor 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Wit and Genius” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Roger Kaza, horn  

Peter Schickele: Pentangle: Five Songs for Horn and Orchestra  
W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550  

Thursday, August 18, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “Paths to Freedom: Sanctuary Road” 

Rossen Milanov, conductor  
Laquita Mitchell, soprano  
Melody Wilson, mezzo-soprano  
Noah Stewart, tenor  
Malcolm Merriweather, baritone  
Dashon Burton, bass  
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
  
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied, op. 54  
Paul Moravec: Sanctuary Road  

Saturday, August 20, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “A Concerto for Orchestra”

Rossen Milanov, conductor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor, op.33  
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123  

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 ∙ 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: “An Evening with Rhiannon Giddens” 

Stuart Chafetz, conductor 
Rhiannon Giddens, voice

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