Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
...pleased to continue the expansion of the Chautauqua Symphony Fellowship Program, supporting ten Fellows for the full orchestra season. learn more History 1874–1903 While Chautauqua Institution began in 1874 as a summer educational assembly for Sunday School teachers, it was intended from the start to include in due time scientific and broadly cultural subjects. But the rate of expansion surprised everyone. A home-reading program, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC), launched in 1878, enrolled...
Property and Construction Resources
...a.m.–3 p.m.) from Tuesday through Thursday. New hang tags are available for $10 each. Please acquire and display hang tags in any vehicle entering Chautauqua Institution for construction and/or landscaping project-related activities. After the 2025 Summer Assembly finishes here at Chautauqua Institution, you may resume your normal construction activities that have been approved by the Office of Campus Planning & Operations beginning Aug. 25, 2025. Clearance: Streets and roads must be kept unobstructed at all times, except...
Visions and Verses: Celebrating National Poetry Month at Chautauqua
...Jillian Hanesworth Jillian Hanesworth is an EMMY award-nominated spoken word artist, and the first Poet Laureate Emeritus of Buffalo, New York. A community organizer and activist, Jillian travels the country performing poetry and speaking on various topics including; art for activism, the impacts of storytelling, and the importance of honest and critical social and political conversations. Last summer she joined Chautauqua in Week Six of our 2023 season, discussing her work unifying and healing...
Faculty
...Muffitt to the Houston, Phoenix, Edmonton, and Spokane Symphonies, Columbus Ohio’s Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony, the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra in Chicago and the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony among others. Along with continued growth in artistic excellence, Muffitt’s work has been marked by innovative, imaginative programming. A strong proponent of community arts education, Muffitt has been very active in the venues of radio and lecture, presenting arts-enrichment programs through...
Musicians
...in Detroit, Ft Worth, Naples, Buffalo, North Carolina and Seattle. He enjoys a special relationship with The Phoenix Symphony where he leads multiple programs annually. He previously held posts as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. As principal timpanist of the Honolulu Symphony for twenty years, Chafetz would also conduct the annual Nutcracker performances with Ballet Hawaii and principals from the American Ballet Theatre. It was during...
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Carmina Burana
Rossen Milanov, conductor The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus joins the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for a captivating performance of the iconic Carmina Burana. Carl Orff’s masterpiece is drawn from medieval texts exploring fate, love, and the unpredictability of fortune. Best known for its electrifying opening, O Fortuna, the piece unfolds as a series of vivid scenes propelled by driving rhythms and striking orchestration. Immediate and powerful, Carmina Burana captures the raw intensity of human experience. Program: Orff:...
Chautauqua Lake Conservation
Chautauqua Lake Conservation From its first days when visitors arrived by steamboat, Chautauqua Lake has been an essential part of the Chautauqua experience. In the intervening years, generations of families around the lake have swum, boated, fished, and enjoyed the natural beauty of the lake. Chautauqua Lake is critical to a strong sense of place and community for those at Chautauqua Institution and throughout Chautauqua County, but human impact is taking its toll. Chautauqua Institution...
Wetlands Regulations Update
...DEC specialists and over 2,000 attended by Webex. The following highlights were noted during the presentation. The delineation maps are NOT regulatory. They only indicate the need to obtain a Jurisdictional Determination from NYSDEC to decide if a project is proposed within the blue areas or within 100 feet of those blue areas is actually within a wetland. The NYSDEC will perform on-site visits to make their determinations and may take up to 90 days...
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Korngold and Dvorak
JoAnn Falletta, conductor Blake Pouliot, violin Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor and Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic JoAnn Falletta joins the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for a luminous evening. Recently named one of the “Fifty Great Conductors,” past and present, by Gramophone Magazine, Falletta is also widely celebrated as the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. Her program with the CSO features the “refined and impassioned” (ArtsAtlanta) Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot in Erich Korngold’s...
Past Productions
...Design by Maidie Greet Sound Design by Rick Menke 1986 Love, the Best Medicine (August 14-August 17,1986) by Moliere Directed by Peter LeFevre The Four Poster (August 22-25, 1986 in Norton Hall) by Jan De Hartog Directed by Gerald Gutierrez Scenic Design by Elizabeth Dayre and Derek McLane Costume Design by Sheila Kehoe Lighting Design by Betsy Adams Friday Night Phaeton Key Exchange (August 1-4, 1986 in Norton Hall) by Kevin Wade Directed by Michael...