Chautauqua Fine
and Performing Art
Schools

Art
The School of Art offers serious young artists a chance to give themselves over to a sustained period of exploration.

Dance
The Chautauqua Ballet program is well known for the unique opportunity it affords students to study with master teachers within a small studio environment.

Theater
Nationally celebrated actors, directors, designers, and writers join nineteen of the finest emerging theater artists in America to present full productions, new play workshops, and a host of related events over the course of a 10 week summer season.

Instrumental
Most students are engaged by an integrated three-phase mock audition component comprising of: psychology, performance and debriefing providing priceless insight into the professional road ahead.

Piano
The piano program offers an exceptional and exciting mixture of traditional and innovative classes, concerts and an artist certificate program.

Voice
Voice lessons, role preparation, diction classes and vocal coachings are guided by a full-time staff of voice teachers, coaches and a resident stage director, along with numerous guest artists.

Arts


Through a unique mix of professional and pre-professional programs, Chautauqua celebrates, encourages and studies the fine and performing arts in a community where artists and audiences live together as one. The artistic diversity that is Chautauqua Institution includes the 74-member Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, drawing professional musicians from around the world for 21 concerts during the summer season.

Chautauqua Opera Company, the oldest continuously producing summer opera company in the United States, builds on its rich history with both professional performances and the education of young singers on the verge of careers in opera.

Chautauqua Theater Company brings together internationally known actors, directors, designers and writers with 18 emerging artists to produce a vibrant summer of work.

The Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution extends throughout the Chautauqua community with professional and student exhibitions in two renovated gallery facilities, a lecture series and special events.

The Chautauqua Dance program presents classical and contemporary ballet as well as modern dance performances by the North Carolina Dance Theatre in residence and Chautauqua’s renowned School of Dance. The Chautauqua Music Festival — designated an All-Steinway Music Festival — provides a unique learning experience for students from around the world to study in the school’s instrumental, voice and piano programs.

Along with popular entertainment and family performances in the 4,000-seat Amphitheater and the Logan Chamber Music series in the intimate setting of Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Chautauqua provides an atmosphere that makes the performance a truly educational experience for all ages.