Review by Andrew Druckenbrod: Think of the volume of a typical orchestral fortissimo and then double it. Then double it again. Now you have a good
School of Music
Review by Andrew Druckenbrod: Puck’s famous epilogue at the end of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream apologizing if the play offended the audience is, of
Song will ring out in a diverse mix of genres, languages and vocal ranges when voice students in the School of Music perform their second concert
Three of the 2018 Sigma Alpha Iota voice competition winners will join forces with the Music School Festival Orchestra in concert at 8:15 p.m. Monday, July
Students in the School of Music will perform in the first open recital of the season at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 7 in Fletcher Music Hall.
Tenor Nicholas Farrauto from the Chautauqua School of Music Voice Program, performs Tuesday, June 25, 2019, at McKnight Hall. VISHAKHA GUPTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Students in the Chautauqua
Chautauqua School of Music’s annual Sigma Alpha Iota competition — which rotates each year between the school’s Voice, instrumental and Piano Programs — is being held
Matthew Payne performs at the Voice Program's annual Sing-In at Fletcher Music Hall on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The School of Music will
Chautauqua Music Camps concerts continue this weekend. On Friday, Aug. 17, the middle school and high school students who are spending a week on the
As the 2018 Chautauqua season reaches the end of Week Eight, many students in the festival schools have left, and the programs are wrapping up.
Monday, Aug. 13, is the last chance of the season to hear instrumental students from the Music School Festival Orchestra perform all together in the
There is a joke that “it is 90 percent panic and 10 percent playing” for percussionists at orchestra concerts. “The percussion in the orchestra concerts
Chautauqua Piano Program Co-Chairs John Milbauer, left, and Nicola Melville on Sunday, July 29, 2018 outside of the Amphitheater. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER On Sunday, July
As a tradition, winners of the annual Sigma Alpha Iota competition don’t just win the prize, they’ll be invited to perform with the Music School
On Tuesday, July 31, instrumental students in the Music School Festival Orchestra begin recitals of Phase Two, the intense phase of the chamber music program. In
When Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts Deborah Sunya Moore describes the student programs at Chautauqua Institution, she likes to highlight the diversity of