Conducting Fellowship
...Box 1098 1 Ames Ave. Chautauqua, NY 14722 2023 Conducting Fellow “My experience in Chautauqua was much beyond learning music, conducting, and career development. It was the experience of how we, as a conductor could build the relationships and friendships with others through music-making, which is the essential skill to have as a leader of music organizations of today. The unique environment of this Fellowship allowed me to be myself on and off the podium,...
Two National Leaders Join Chautauqua Institution Board Of Trustees
...has adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region. Gayle was previously president and CEO of CARE, and has also held leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a native of nearby Buffalo, New York. Peckinpaugh, of St. Louis, is president of Maritz Global Events, providing strategic oversight for one of the most respected...
Chautauqua Institution Arts Education Awarded Three-Year Grant from The Children’s Guild Foundation
Chautauqua Institution’s Arts Education School Residencies program is the recipient of a three-year grant award totaling $45,000 from The Children’s Guild Foundation, located in Buffalo, New York. This support is to help sustain the current program and develop professional development opportunities for area teachers in arts integration teaching strategies to serve students with disabilities across Chautauqua County. The Children’s Guild Foundation financially supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations across Western New York, with a focus on...
Visions and Verses: Celebrating National Poetry Month at ChautauquaÂ
...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
...have taken 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...
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...
Wynton Marsalis
...Fields, Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and he extended his achievements in that piece with All Rise, which was first performed in 1999. In this week at Chautauqua, All Rise will be performed on the Amphitheater stage with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Music School Festival Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus under the baton of Timothy Muffitt. An internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader,...
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...
Food Tents and Trucks at Bestor Plaza
...11:30 a.m.–2 p.m., Sundays through Thursdays, weekly Yakisoba’s (noodles, dumplings and more): Thursdays & Fridays, weekly Tabouli (Middle Eastern): June 22, June 24, June 28, July 5, July 19, July 26, July 29, Aug. 16, Aug. 19, Aug. 23 Best of Buffalo (chicken wings, beef on weck and more): 11 a.m.–2 p.m., June 24, July 19, July 29, Aug. 16, Aug. 19, Aug. 23 Moneybags Dumplings (homemade dumplings and noodles): July 5 and July 26...
Past Productions
...Lighting 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...