Study

Overview

The Brevard Music Center offers summer music study to students age 14 and older, with separate programs for students of high school age and students of college age and older. The 2008 season runs from June 25 through August 10.

Throughout its 71-year history, the heart of the Brevard Music Center has been orchestral performance. Students in the Instrumental Studies program rehearse daily and maintain a regular concert schedule. High school wind players and percussionists also perform in symphonic band.

In addition to Instrumental Studies, Brevard offers programs in

All students except those in the opera program receive private lessons. Most string and wind players have the opportunity for formal chamber music study.

Other Information

Each summer Brevard enrolls about 400 students who represent nearly every state in the United States and several foreign countries. Ages range from 14 to 30+.

The faculty numbers more than 60 professional musicians associated with the finest orchestras, colleges, and conservatories in the country.

Brevard is a residential program. Its students and faculty live and work on a 140-acre wooded campus in western North Carolina.

Brevard's season lasts seven weeks - pianists may elect to attend for either the first half or second half.

Brevard presents more than 80 public concerts each summer. A large number of these feature its ensembles: three orchestras, a symphonic band, the Janiec Opera Company, and various smaller ensembles, including the new music ensemble itch and the Baroque string orchestra I Solisti di Brevard.