Our mission is to expand the lives of our audience within and beyond the Institution’s gates through the power of the performing and visual arts.
We seek to serve the purposes of the Institution by inspiring, educating, entertaining and engaging a diverse and growing audience; by serving as an integral part of the Chautauqua community; by exemplifying artistic excellence in presenting programs that celebrate both tradition and innovation; and by demonstrating sound financial stewardship.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. ET Sunday, December 6, 2020.
Coming to you live from Lenna Hall at Chautauqua Institution, the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessl...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. ET Sunday, December 20, 2020.
The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world. Now in ...
Originally broadcast at 12 p.m. EDT Friday, October 23, 2020.
Celebrated jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis speaks with H.E. Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo, a patron of the arts who has dedicated her life to inspiring artists to create, generations to innovate and communities to unite and prospe...
Originally broadcast at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 22, 2020.
Celebrated jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis speaks with Jon Batiste, the virtuoso pianist, bandleader, composer, record producer, educator and actor. As a teenager, Batiste began self-producing and releasing his music, as ...
Originally broadcast at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 15, 2020.
Famed jazz musician Wynton Marsalis speaks with Michael Curry, the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church.
ABOUT PRESIDING BISHOP MICHAEL CURRY
Presiding Bishop Curry was installed as the 27th Presiding Bishop ...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 1, 2020.
Join Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti as she shares insights into the internal and external experiences of life as a performer. From preparation to performance, Ms. Benedetti will take listeners behind the scenes, givin...
Originally broadcast at 12 p.m. EDT Tuesday, September 15, 2020.
Enjoy hours of uninterrupted music from the world’s piano masters, including several Chautauqua favorites such as Alexander Gavrylyuk, Alexander Kobrin, Natasha Paremski, Sara Davis Buechner, Christopher Taylor and more.
About Cha...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.
Join us for a special conversation with writer Sandra Cisneros and composer Derek Bermel as we show selected excerpts recorded during Chautauqua’s 2017 world premiere of Mango Suite, while discussing how this collaboration has continu...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Program:
Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, op. 95, "Serioso"
Antonin Dvořák: Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51, "Slavonic”
Coming to you live from Lenna Hall at Chautauqua Institution, the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a positi...
Rebroadcast at 8:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Originally performed on 8/8/2019.
Join us online to watch selected favorites from CSO performances recorded in the Amphitheater during past seasons. Whether you were there for the original performance, or whether this is your first time he...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, August 17, 2020.
Program:
-W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
-Charles Berofsky: Uneasy Dreams
-Antonín Dvořák: Allegro con Fuoco from Piano Quartet in E-flat major, B. 162, op. 87
Chautauqua School of Music faculty members Aaron Berofsky, v...
Rebroadcast at 8:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Originally performed on 7/2/2019 and 8/8/2019.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Rebroadcasts - Selected Thursdays at 8:15 p.m.
Join us online to watch selected favorites from CSO performances recorded in the Amphitheater during past seasons....
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, August 10, 2020.
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” PUBLIQuartet’s modern interpretation of chamber music makes them one of the most dynamic ar...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 6, 2020.
Described by the Gramophone as a “magician, bewitching our ears” for his hauntingly beautiful sound, flawless command of the instrument and mesmerizing phrasing, Ilya Kaler is the only violinist to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, August 3, 2020.
Cantus performs for Week Six’s Chautauqua Chamber Music series.
Cantus is an internationally recognized men’s vocal ensemble is widely known for its innovative programming and its engaging performances of music ranging from the Renaiss...
Originally performed on 7/20/2019
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Rebroadcast: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (collaboration with the Music School Festival Orchestra)
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Rebroadcasts
Selected Thursdays at 8:15 p.m.
Join us online to watch selected favorites from CSO ...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, 2020.
Dutch–English violinist Daniel Rowland and Serbian–French cellist Maja Bogdanovic join forces in this exceptional musical partnership. Since forming in 2018, the duo has performed all over Europe and the world, including engagements wit...
Originally broadcast at 4:00 p.m. EDT Monday, July 27, 2020.
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce:
Into the Music with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (Special Monday Edition)
Two Russians, Eight Strings
Monday, July 27, 2020
4:00 p.m.
CHQ Assembly – Live from Lenna Hall
Join us fo...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, July 20, 2020.
Program:
Bartok: Selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins (1931)
39. Serbian Dance
43. Pizzicato
41. Scherzo
Augusta Read Thomas: Silent Moon for Violin and Viola (2006)
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin Solo (2014)
...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Friday, July 17, 2020.
Gina Chavez returns to Chautauqua with a special online concert and conversation.
Chavez is a 12-time Austin Music Award winner, including 2019 Female Vocalist and 2015 Austin Musician of the Year, Gina explores the true meaning of “Am...
Rebroadcast at 8:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, 2020.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Rebroadcasts
Selected Thursdays at 8:15 p.m.
CSO Rebroadcast: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Alexander Gavrylyuk
Join us online to watch selected favorites from CSO performances recorded in t...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, July 13, 2020.
Pianist Brian Zeger, violinist Nurit Pacht and cellist Tobias Werner perform music by Dvořák, Block, Janáček and Bartók.
Brian Zeger appears regularly on the Guest Faculty of Chautauqua’s Voice Program and is widely recognized as one o...
Originally broadcast at 12:30 p.m. EDT Monday, July 13, 2020.
Joseph Polisi details the role of 21st-century artists, and their impact today.
“Creativity is the human mind.”
An interview with Dr. Joseph Polisi, President Emeritus & Chief China Officer, The Juilliard School.
About Chautauq...
Originally broadcast at 5:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 9, 2020.
Applauded by the Calgary Herald as “…talented, sensitive…brilliant,” JIJI is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing a wide range of music from traditional and contemporary classical to free improvisation. ...