INSTRUMENTAL > GUEST ARTISTS & MASTER CLASSES
June 21 - August 12, 2008

Chautauqua is unlike any other place on earth...there is just something about the idyllic and utopian nature of the Chautauquan ideal that simply cannot be put into words.  What other place can you learn, explore, be challenged and inspired, all at the same time?  As a musician, I can't think of any other place I'd rather spend my summers.  My only regret is that the summer season ends so quickly.
----- Rachael Kistler, violin, Appalachian State University

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Chautauqua’s music festival is peppered with a rich master class program that caters to each individual student. During the seven-week festival over 50 public master classes will be held and all students are encouraged to attend and learn technique from masters outside of their primary study.

Master classes are scheduled with distinguished visiting faculty and guest soloists with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO). Distinquished visiting faculty in the 2008 season will include but is not limited to: Richard Aaron, Peter Winograd, Ilya Kaler and Almita Vamos. In recent years, visiting faculty have included: Dmitri Berlinsky, Victor Danchenko, Ilya Kaler, Sally O’Reilly, Aaron Rosand, Almita Vamos (violin); Atar Arad, Paul Neubauer, Roland Vamos (viola); Zuill Bailey, Denis Brott, Felice Farrell, Josef Feigelson, Gary Hoffman, Gustav Rivinius (cello); Scott Haigh, James Vandermark (double bass); James Walker (flute); Marc Goldberg, Lynette Cohen, Barrick Stees (bassoon); Heinz Fadle (trombone); Chris Leuba, Peter Kurau (horn); Michael Burritt, (percussion); and ensembles such as Imani Wind Quintet and Meridian Arts Ensemble.