Keith Lockhart, Artistic Director
BREVARD MUSIC CENTER SUMMER FESTIVAL
MAY - AUGUST
For twelve weeks this summer, gifted young musicians from across the globe will gather in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to prepare and perform great musical works alongside a remarkable and distinguished faculty. They will be joined by some of the most celebrated names in music — from classical superstars and composers to jazz icons and bluegrass legends — for 100 unforgettable performances and events in Brevard Music Center’s glorious lakeside venues, Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium and the new Parker Concert Hall, and throughout the region. Learn more at BREVARDMUSIC.ORG.
BREVARD MUSIC CENTER Imagine a place where music fills the air. Where Beethoven, Mozart, and Verdi are alive and well. Where the most talented students and extraordinary faculty coexist in practice rooms and onstage. Now imagine it all in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. Discover a place where inspiration comes naturally. Experience Brevard Music Center, at once a place, an institute, and a festival. Situated on a lovely wooded 180-acre campus in western North Carolina, Brevard Music Center has matured into one of this country’s premier summer training programs and festivals. Under the artistic direction of acclaimed conductor Keith Lockhart, Music Director of the Boston Pops and Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Orchestra in London, 500 gifted students — ages 14 through postcollege — come to the Music Center every summer to study with distinguished faculty and renowned guest artists. From the end of May to the beginning of August, students participate in a rigorous program of instruction and performance including orchestral ensembles, private lessons, chamber music, opera, jazz, and classical guitar.
Brevard’s hallmark is the powerful sense of community that re-emerges every June as faculty and students work together to present over 100 concerts and events, encompassing multiple music genres, to more than 40,000 enthusiastic fans from across the country. Over the past eight decades, BMC has been privileged to welcome world-class soloists including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Frederica Von Stade, Garrick Ohlsson, and other talented virtuosi.
“The education we offer is geared not just toward the next generation of working musicians, but towards the passionate advocacy of their audiences.” -Keith Lockhart, Artistic Director
The summer festival also features the popular BMC Presents series, having brought non-classical artists as rich and diverse as The Manhattan Transfer, Béla Fleck, Garrison Keillor, Steep Canyon Rangers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marvin Hamlisch, PDQ Bach, Michael Feinstein, Judy Collins, and Peter, Paul and Mary to the Brevard stage.
Music-lovers are welcome to bring their own food and beverages for a pre-concert picnic on the lawn or purchase
For opera lovers, Brevard Music Center’s Janiec Opera
delectable treats on campus.
Company presents three fully-staged operas and two recitals each summer festival season. Past performances
For decades the Brevard Music Center has inspired devotion
have included classic operas such as Carmen, Rigoletto,
not only among its students and faculty but also among its
Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, and La
listeners and among a vast corps of volunteers. That
bohème, as well as more modern works like Street Scene,
hundreds of persons have purchased homes in western North
The Ballad of Baby Doe, Albert Herring, Sweeney Todd, and
Carolina expressly to be near the Brevard Music Center gives
Falling Angel (2016 World Premiere).
some measure of the Center’s significance to its community.
Almost half of the Summer Festival concerts are free and open to the public. Tickets start at $20.
Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, NC 28712
Be inspired. Be here. EXPERIENCE BREVARD THROUGH OUR WONDERFUL SPOTLIGHT VIDEOS
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Find out more at brevardmusic.org or (828) 862-2100