Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor: David DanzmayrGuest Artist: Angelo Xiang Yu, violin David Danzmayr conducts Haydn’s famously brilliant final symphony, written during the composer’s highly successful visit to London; its music finds Haydn at his most ingenious and surprising. Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto is sometimes folkish, sometimes operatic, and always stunning — especially in the hands of violinist […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: Juilliard String QuartetThe Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the Juilliard String Quartet, of which Mann was the founding first violinist, and which The Boston Globe has called “the most important American quartet in history.” The ensemble performs two major works by French composers: Ravel’s only […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Olga Kern, piano“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s […]

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Olga Kern, piano“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s […]

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Conrad Tao, pianoIn this stunning all-Mozart program, the “energetic and engaging” Ludovic Morlot (Daily Telegraph) conducts the composer’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, an urgent and intensely expressive masterpiece which explores the anguish and triumph of the human spirit. Celebrated pianist Conrad Tao, “an explosive force” with “a […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: St. Lawrence String Quartet The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, an ensemble known for “not only virtuosity, intelligence, and imagination but also extraordinary passion” (New York Times). The Quartet — once guided and coached by Mann himself — performs works by […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Ji Su Jung, marimbaThis Beethoven-infused program opens with a world premiere commissioned by the Festival and composed by the “striking and resourceful” Hannah Lash (New York Times); her new Forestallings is directly inspired by Beethoven’s Second Symphony. Continuing our look at Beethoven through another lens, we also experience Music […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: Colorado Music Festival Orchestra strings, and percussionChristopher Taylor, pianoJi Su Jung, marimba“I get excited every time I think about it,” says Music Director Peter Oundjian about this playful, exploratory Kaleidoscope event. “I just want to sit in that audience!” Stuffed from start to finish with bold musical color and moments […]

Doors Time 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artists: Alisa Weilerstein, celloJoan Tower, composerThis all-Joan-Tower program includes the landmark premiere of a brand new cello concerto by the legendary composer; this concerto was commissioned by the Festival and written for cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who performs it here. “ and the cello seem simply to be one and the […]

Doors: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Augustin Hadelich, violin Artist-in-ResidenceDelight in Beethoven’s only violin concerto, a vivacious and melodic treasure that Music Director Peter Oundjian calls “the pinnacle of all violin concertos.” This masterpiece requires as skilled a musician as the Grammy-winning Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times); this concert is […]

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Augustin Hadelich, violin Artist-in-ResidenceDelight in Beethoven’s only violin concerto, a vivacious and melodic treasure that Music Director Peter Oundjian calls “the pinnacle of all violin concertos.” This masterpiece requires as skilled a musician as the Grammy-winning Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times); this concert […]

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artists: Steven Banks, saxophone Chris Christoffersen, narrator This program begins and ends with Aaron Copland: first, his brassy and familiar Fanfare for the Common Man; finally, his reverent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, featuring text from Lincoln’s speeches narrated by Chris Christoffersen. Brilliant saxophonist Steven Banks brings his “pristine clarity” and “emotional heat” […]

Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Nashville-based, Oregon-born Mat Kearney is back with his new studio album January Flower. Written between an isolated retreat in Joshua Tree and his home studio, January Flower sees Kearney in his rawest form, distilling the songwriting process and rediscovering the joy of making music. Over his career, Kearney […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Guest Artists Brooklyn Rider The Festival welcomes Brooklyn Rider, “four classical musicians performing with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series. In this fresh and inventive program, Brooklyn Rider contrasts Franz Schubert’s lauded “Death and the […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter Oundjian Guest Artists: Dr. Eddie Glaude, narratorJoel Thompson, composerIn a world premiere commissioned by the Festival, composer Joel Thompson shines a light on American writer and activist James Baldwin, weaving selections of Baldwin’s own words into a musical profile on one of the most powerful Black voices of his generation. Later: Beethoven […]

Door Time: 6:45 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianThe 2021 Festival Finale showcases all the sections of the orchestra, beginning with a canzon for brass and ending with Beethoven’s unforgettable Fifth Symphony. With its iconic four-note opening and its ascent from darkness to light, the Fifth is perhaps, as novelist E.M. Forster described it, “the […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM On their 16th studio album, Indigo Girls tell their origin story. Look Long is a stirring and eclectic […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM On their 16th studio album, Indigo Girls tell their origin story. Look Long is a stirring and eclectic […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM The incredible harmonies and distinctive arrangements of The Jayhawks set them apart from the rest of the Minneapolis […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM “Bad For You,” the fifth album from Nashville's hard-edged bluegrass band The Steeldrivers, arrives after a period of […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:00 PM Showtime: 7:00 PM Keb’ Mo’s self-titled release under his coined Keb’ Mo’ moniker, reached it’s quarter-century milestone in 2019, and over […]

To keep the music playing during this unpredictable time, we are requiring all patrons and staff to wear a mask while attending events at Chautauqua. To read more, click here. Door Time: 6:30 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM With career album sales now in excess of 1.5 million worldwide, Mexican acoustic-rock duo Rodrigo y Gabriela won […]