Larry FogdallPresident and CEO

Keith LockhartArtistic Director

Bruce MurrayDean and Artistic Administrator

Jason PosnockAssociate Artistic Administrator

Keith Lockhart assumed artistic leadership of the Brevard Music Center in October, 2007. An alumnus of the Music Center, Mr. Lockhart has been Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since 1995. He was Music Director of the Utah Symphony from 1998 until 2009. In August 2010, Keith Lockhart was appointed seventh Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Lockhart has worked with the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Minnesota, Montreal, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Singapore, Toronto and Vancouver as well as the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada), and the Philharmonics of New York and Los Angeles. Moreover, he has conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony.

Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, Keith Lockhart began his musical studies with piano lessons at the age of 7. He holds degrees from Furman University in Greenville, SC, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Carnegie Mellon, Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Centre College in Danville, KY, Furman University, Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and Northeastern University.

Karl Straus
Asheville, NC