@ Chautauqua June 28, 2010 / Lenna Hall / 4 p.m.

Project Trio is a dynamic, passionate, high energy, instrumental ensemble comprised of three virtuosic composer/performers from Brooklyn, NY. Their sound can only be described as a fusion of jazz and world music, with some elements of hip-hop and popular music balanced out by a sincere allegiance to their classical roots. World-renowned “boxbeat” flutist Greg Pattillo, cellist Eric Stephenson and double bassist Peter Seymour, all studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and have burst onto the music scene right out of the internet generation.

@ Chautauqua July 12, 2010 / Lenna Hall / 4 p.m.

The Carducci String Quartet is recognized as one of Europe’s top young quartets. Winner of the 2007 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City, First Prize at Finland’s Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition, and major prizes at the Bordeaux, London and Osaka competitions, they have toured from Australia to South America to the UK.

Fireworks Ensemble combines the talents of eight classically trained virtuosi who pride themselves on being able to play just about anything, regardless of style, time period or instrumentation. Their “Cartoon” program is an engaging and hilarious evening of music and video created for and inspired by the golden age of animation. They perform the live sound track to original animation for such iconic characters as Tom and Jerry, Coyote and Roadrunner, and Bugs Bunny. An evening for the kid in all of us.

@ Chautauqua August 2, 2010 / Amphitheater / 8:15 p.m.

The Dodworth Saxhorn Band is a 17-member 19th century brass band committed to bringing America’s musical past to life. Using period instruments, costumes and history, they entertain and educate listeners about the era from 1840 to 1880 that produced the community brass band. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the band brings history to life. You will leave singing, whistling and humming popular American tunes that we all grew up with as part of our cultural heritage.

To coincide with his Aug. 17 Chautauqua visit, Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence has been named as one of two Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selections for Week Eight. “An Evening with Salman Rushdie,” a special 8:15 p.m. event in the Amphitheater, will serve as the Roundtable discussion. The CLSC selection for the Thursday, Aug. 19, Roundtable has yet to be announced.

The Enchantress of Florence, published by Random House in 2008, is two stories in one: a tale about three boys from Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and a story of Akbar, greatest of the Mughal emperors, who established both the wondrous and short-lived city Fatehpur Sikri and a wondrous and short-lived policy of religious tolerance. In her review for The Guardian, Ursula K. Le Guin called The Enchantress of Florence a “brilliant, fascinating, generous novel,” and a “sumptuous, impetuous mixture of history with fable.”

A former Supreme Court clerk, Elizabeth Magill is the academic associate dean at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she also serves as the Joseph Weintraub-Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law and the Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor of Law.

Prior to becoming a professor, Magill was a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She also served as a senior legislative assistant for energy and natural resources for U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad, a position she held until entering law school at Virginia in 1992. Magill earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale.

Lisa Blatt heads appellate and Supreme Court practice at the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm Arnold & Porter. She spent 13 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, where she served as an assistant to the solicitor general. She has argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any woman in practice today, prevailing in 27 of 28 cases. She has briefed more than 250 cases in the Court, and her oral advocacy has been cited as exemplary in the Supreme Court clerk’s Guide for Counsel in Cases to be Argued Before the Supreme Court.

Digital photography pioneer Steve Sasson is a retired Eastman Kodak Company engineer and winner of multiple honors from consumer electronics groups and photographic societies. After graduating in 1973 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., Steve joined Eastman Kodak as an electrical engineer working in an applied research laboratory. He engaged in a number of early digital imaging projects, among which was the design and construction of the digital still camera and playback system in 1975.