Music School Festival Orchestra is made up of students who are pre-professional young musicians. And what’s special about tonight’s concert is that a student conductor
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Pianist Malcolm Bilson has been to Chautauqua before, but he’s never brought the same instrument twice — until now. Every summer for the past three
Boris Slutsky, piano faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory, is giving a master class at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 27 in the Sherwood-Marsh Studios. According
Voice Chair Marlena Malas wants the traditional Sing-In to be a laid-back starting point for the Voice Program. “I usually tell them just sing what
As a welcoming event, the Piano Play-in does not commonly exist in music festival schools, but instead is unique to Chautauqua’s School of Music. The
This season, pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk is coming back to Chautauqua Institution for three weeks as an “artistic luminary” in the School of Music, in the
While harps have the reputation for being ethereal and delicate, the musicians who play the six-foot tall, 80-pound instruments are anything but fragile. “We don’t
Over the course of five days, the instructors at the Chautauqua Music Camps transform a group of 117 middle and high school students from around
After seven weeks learning, practicing and performing with one another, the Music School Festival Orchestra will play their final concert. “It’s hard to believe we’re
At 15 years old, Aaron Berofsky was skeptical of his teachers who said playing the same piece felt different every time. “Some of my best
Eight Music School Festival Orchestra students and three voice students will perform Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at 7 p.m. Thursday in Fletcher Music Hall.
For their end-of-season recital, the 10 Music School Festival Orchestra cellists will play pieces that were arranged specifically for them. Arie Lipsky, chamber music chair,
The voice students are ready to say — or rather, sing — goodbye to one another, their teachers and the Chautauqua community. The annual Voice
Stephen Sondheim once said, “Oklahoma! is about a picnic, Carousel is about life and death.” In a performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel at 6
Chautauquans can hear their favorite operas like never before as the Music School Festival Orchestra and Voice Program students join together to perform opera scenes.
Students learn about more than just music from Curtis Burris, chair of the strings department. “Talking to Curtis in a lesson is (only) half ‘here’s