Roe Green Theater Center: A Centralized, State-of-the-Art Home for Chautauqua Theater Company
Designed to bring artists, students, staff and audiences together in one shared creative space, the Roe Green Theater Center marks a major investment in the future of theater at Chautauqua Institution. With the opening of the new Center, a bold new chapter begins for CTC, debuting with FutureNow New Play Lab 1: The Bone Wars at 6 p.m. Friday, July 10. “The opening of the Roe Green Theater Center is a transformative moment for our artistic community,” said Senior Vice President...
Greene Family Commons: A Renewed Home for Artistic Living and Learning
...Support the Greene Family Commons Chautauqua Institution extends its heartfelt gratitude to all who made the renovation of the Greene Family Commons possible. We are deeply grateful to our donors, whose generosity and commitment helped create a vibrant artistic home where students can discover, create and learn. We also extend sincere thanks to the construction management team at Buffalo Construction Consulting — Steve Ginitti, Mark Ceppaglia and Rob Turnquist — as well as the team...
WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE
Special Program Event! Free Admission with Gate Pass! Recorded live at the Chautauqua Amphitheater in 2024 this is Wynton Marsalis’s massive jazz symphony All Rise performed in it’s entirety featuring the Music School Festival Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. (NR, 115m)...
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Announces New Appointments
Monday, October 7, 2024 Chautauqua, N.Y. – Chautauqua Institution and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) today announced a series of new musician appointments. Sharon Roffman joins the CSO as concertmaster after a two-year audition process, Stanislav Chernyshev as Principal Clarinet, and Matthew Strauss as Principal Timpani. Additionally, six exceptional violinists — Leslie Frey Anderegg, Zhe Deng, Zhen Lui, Molly McDonald, Kurt Munstedt and Timothy Peters — have been welcomed ahead of the 2025 season. Cristina...
Fellowship Program
...New York, Gabrielle Monachino began her violin studies at the age of 4. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and many others. Most recently, she was a Violin Fellow at the New World Symphony. While there, she was fortunate to sit principal under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, Stephane Deneve, Nicholas Collon, Peter Oundjian, and collaborated with artists such as James Ehnes,...
Stephine Hunt Named Interim Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts
...2017, when she began serving as the seasonal manager of the CLSC Octagon. She became manager of literary arts in 2023, working closely with Alexander to expand the reach of Chautauqua’s literary offerings. A doctoral candidate in American studies at the University at Buffalo, Hunt also teaches English and ethnic and gender studies at SUNY Fredonia. Her academic expertise includes critical Indigenous studies; Native American literature and history; and the environmental humanities. “Stephine has worked...
Makayla Santiago-Froebel
Makayla Santiago- Froebel joins as the Arts Marketing Specialist, having just over eight years of experience working in arts and cultural institutions. She previously worked at Chautauqua, with roles in dance and ticketing operations, and was most recently employed as the Communications & Development Coordinator at the Center for Elder Law & Justice in Buffalo, New York, and the Development Associate at Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, her tenure includes...
PBS and Chautauqua Institution Announce Production of a Documentary
The New Documentary, Airing in Early 2025, Celebrates One of the Nation’s First Centers of Lifelong Learning and Features Special Performances from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis PASADENA, CA; July 15, 2024 — Today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS and Chautauqua Institution announced the production of a new one-hour documentary film, CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE, to air on PBS in early 2025. Produced by...
Your Visit
...as a schoolhouse for the summer program, and accordingly, its original name was “Normal Hall.” In 2000, with the advocacy of the Friends of Chautauqua Theater Company and a successful Institutional capital campaign, a major renovation took place, and the beautiful, 269-seat, newly named Bratton Theater was inaugurated. A significant accomplishment in preservation and renovation, the original laminated beam structure of Normal Hall is still in place today. Under the direction of architect Mitchell Kurtz, the...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative Fall Update 2023
...learn about how direct air capture and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide might someday help meaningfully reduce excess greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Days after returning from Iceland, we were surprised and delighted to see the facility we had just visited on the cover of the National Geographic November 2023 edition. While the CarbFix technology is still a long way from solving the climate crisis, we were encouraged to learn that early successes have led...