Victoria Christopher Murray and Phil Klay to Serve as Guest Judges for The Chautauqua Prize Chautauqua Institution proudly announces the 2024 guest judges and jury for The Chautauqua Prize. Awarded annually since 2012, The Chautauqua Prize celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and to honor the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. Books published in 2023 were accepted as submissions for the 2024 Prize from September–December 2023. The 2024 Prize finalists and award-winning book will be selected from a long list of entries read and reviewed by 102 volunteer...
Chautauqua Literary Arts is pleased to announce an exciting transition for the Chautauqua journal, which will see its final publication this summer in its current form. It will be reconstructed and rejuvenated as the Chautauqua Anthology, co-edited by Kwame Alexander and Jill Gerard. For decades, Chautauqua literary journal has been a literary manifestation of the values and aesthetics of Chautauqua Institution. Each volume is a portable Chautauqua season between covers. The sections loosely reflect the categories of experience addressed during those nine summer weeks, playing one writer’s vision off another’s in the spirit of oblique, artful dialogue. The Chautauqua way...
Everyone has a story to tell. Join us to discover yours at the Inaugural 2024 Kwame Alexander Writers’ Lab at Chautauqua Institution (previously known as the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival), taking place over four days, June 18-21. Reimagined by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts, the Writers’ Lab boasts a tradition of intensive master class workshops with award-winning contemporary authors while enjoying our beautiful lakeside community, Chautauqua Institution. This year we are celebrating and featuring writers in Memoir, Poetry, and Children’s Literature, including Kwame Alexander, Safiya Sinclair, Kate Bowler, Nikki Grimes,...
Chautauqua Institution today announced the 2024 season repertoire of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) under the baton of Music Director and Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov. The 2024 season, marking the CSO’s 95th season and Chautauqua Institution’s sesquicentennial, will offer 24 performances between June 25 and Aug. 17, with concerts in Weeks One through Week Nine of Chautauqua’s Summer Assembly. Repertoire will range from classics to tributes, commissions, and several concerts with Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz on the podium. The CSO continues its relationship with the Sphinx Organization, with eight CSO Fellows selected from the Sphinx Orchestral Partners program joining...
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, announced today its 2024 season. Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2024 season will feature two productions. Opening the season is Love and Longing by the Lake, a trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, music by Rene Orth and Kamala Sankaram, and libretto by Jerre Dye. Four performances of this triple bill will be staged down the hill from Chautauqua’s Athenaeum Hotel. Engelbert Humperdinck’s beloved Hansel and Gretel will receive one performance in the Amphitheater with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Chautauqua Opera Conservatory...
Chautauqua, N.Y.- Chautauqua Institution today announced a four-year extension for Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director and Principal Symphonic Conductor Rossen Milanov. The extension follows 10 successful seasons of CSO programming on Chautauqua Institution’s renowned Amphitheater stage. “I am overjoyed that Chautauqua Institution will continue to be blessed with Maestro Milanov’s leadership in the coming years,” said Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts Laura Savia. “Rossen is a consummate musician, a discerning leader and a brilliant and collaborative colleague. Whether commissioning a work by a living composer or preparing a Mahler symphony, his conducting acumen ensures the highest quality...
Chautauqua Institution and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) today announced the retirement of the esteemed principal clarinetist Eli Eban, several new musician appointments, and summer 2024 auditions. The CSO will welcome Eliot Heaton and Sharon Roffman back as guest concertmasters. Heaton will join the orchestra in Week One through Four, with Roffman leading through the end of the Summer Assembly. Led by Music Director and Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov and Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz, the stage is set for an extraordinary season. After 30 seasons with the CSO, beloved Principal Clarinetist Eli Eban will retire at the end of...
Chautauqua Institution’s Board of Trustees elected Stephen F. Messinger, Jill Penrose, and Stephen J. Zenczak to four-year terms at the final meeting of the body’s 2022–23 cycle on Aug. 26. Additionally, members of the Chautauqua Corporation elected Bob W. Obee as the newest of the four trustees selected by Chautauqua property owners at the Corporation’s annual meeting on Aug. 12. The new trustee class officially began its term on Oct. 1. Messinger, of Arlington, Virginia, is the former president of ECG Management Consultants. He grew up in nearby Lakewood, New York, and in 1976 his parents purchased a cottage on...
Following a national search, Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Angela Schuettler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Schuettler begins her service October 23. As CFO, Schuettler will play a critical role as a member of the President’s Executive Team, advising Chautauqua leadership and leading initiatives that will ensure Chautauqua Institution’s long-term financial sustainability at a moment of exciting organizational transformation. Reporting directly to the president, her duties include the preparation and monitoring of the annual operating budget and capital budget, strategic financial planning; and overseeing processes related to resource allocation and controls. Chautauqua President...
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of the acclaimed artist Erika b Hess* as artistic director of Chautauqua Visual Arts (CVA). In this role, Hess will help shape the model for the next chapter of CVA’s School of Art and oversee this dynamic hub for learning and expression comprised of the Chautauqua School of Art residency program, Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Centers, The Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden, The Gallery Store, the CVA Lecture Series, and the growing education and community engagement programs. Hess, a celebrated painter, curator, writer, and host of the famous art podcast “I Like Your Work,” is...