Facilities

As one of only four official Steinway summer programs, the Chautauqua Summer Festival maintains a first-rate fleet of Steinway grand pianos for practice, lessons, and performance. Each piano student is assigned at least 5 dedicated hours daily on a Steinway grand.

Sherwood-Marsh Piano Studios are beautifully renovated teaching and performing spaces within an historic structure at CHQ. Sherwood Recital Room is a 100-seat space with a pair of well-matched Steinway Ds, and is used for group classes, master classes, weekly performance classes, and some competitions. In addition to the Recital Room, there are three teaching studios in Sherwood-Marsh with paired Steinway Bs and Os, and two rehearsal rooms, each with one grand piano. All pianos are in excellent condition and are maintained at a professional standard throughout the summer.

Other performance spaces on the grounds used by the piano program include Fletcher Hall (completed in 2008; capacity 250; Steinway D), Lenna Hall (state-of-the-art recital hall; capacity 500; two Steinway Ds), and McKnight Hall (renovated historic building in 2007; capacity 150; Steinway B). In short, our facilities are unmatched.