Students: save 50% on Colorado Music Festival tickets! Valid for all 2022 Festival concerts, including can’t-miss visits by composer-in-residence John Adams. To purchase, visit the Chautauqua box office with a current student ID card. For the best seat and price availability, check out our Tuesday and Friday concerts.
Our Recommendations
Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5
Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5
The 2026 Festival opens with a once-in-a-generation violinist: Himari, a 14-year-old phenomenon who has already collected substantial awards and recognition, performs Sibelius’s Concerto for Violin, full of Nordic snow and moody skies. Just as Sibe...
Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5
Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5
The 2026 Festival opens with a once-in-a-generation violinist: Himari, a 14-year-old phenomenon who has already collected substantial awards and recognition, performs Sibelius’s Concerto for Violin, full of Nordic snow and moody skies. Just as Sibe...
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass
The 2026 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series opens with “one of the most popular brass ensembles in the world” (Washington Post), the Juno Award-winning quintet Canadian Brass. With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive worldwide touring...
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a world premiere by “astonishingly innovative” composer James Stephenson (Musical America); while he writes deftly “in all walks of the musical landscape,” his new quartet features trumpet a...
Beethoven & Stravinsky
Beethoven & Stravinsky
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a program featuring the Festival’s own musicians. Beethoven’s only quintet for piano and wind is rife with rhapsodic dialogue between its instruments. In Stravinsky’s bitter L’Histoire du So...
Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere
Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere
Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Au...
Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere
Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere
Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Au...
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
“None of us have any memory of our lives without the string quartet,” claims this highly sought-after ensemble of energetic musicians who met each other at music camp as teenagers. By audience request, the Danish String Quartet returns to the Rob...
Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique
Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique
Audiences raved about pianist Michelle Cann’s Festival debut in 2023; now Cann returns to Chautauqua to perform the world premiere of a piano concerto by esteemed composer Valerie Coleman. After intermission, Berlioz invites us on a psychedelic rom...
Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique
Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique
Audiences raved about pianist Michelle Cann’s Festival debut in 2023; now Cann returns to Chautauqua to perform the world premiere of a piano concerto by esteemed composer Valerie Coleman. After intermission, Berlioz invites us on a psychedelic rom...