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Brevard Music Center provides a congenial summer community for young musicians of exceptional gifts. Four hundred students, from nearly every state in the U.S. and from several other countries, enroll each year. Students and a faculty of sixty live and work on the Music Center campus, 150 wooded acres in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina.
Brevard has two divisions, one for high school students, one for students of college age and older. The two divisions have separate curricula and distinct campus life policies.
The minimum age for admission to the high school division is 14.
The minimum age for admission to the college division is 18, and students in the college division must have completed a year as a full-time college student before they can enroll at Brevard. The maximum age in the college division is 29.
Brevard offers five programs:
- orchestral studies
- piano
- composition
- voice for high school students
- opera for college students
More than eighty public performances, the outcome of study, comprise Brevard's renowned summer festival and attract tens of thousands of listeners each year.
For most students the term of study runs six or seven weeks. Pianists and high school singers may attend for either six weeks or three. In 2010 the season will begin on June 25 and will end on August 8.
Admission to Brevard requires an audition. Tuition is $5100 for the full session, $2550 for a half session. Most students receive financial aid via grants and work study.
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