College Orchestral Studies
June 20 - August 8, 2010
Orchestral performance forms the heart of the Brevard Music Center. Students who play orchestral instruments or saxophone or euphonium may enroll in the Orchestral Studies program.
All students in the Orchestra Studies program
- rehearse daily and perform extensively in various ensembles
- receive weekly private lessons
- have opportunity for formal chamber music study
- may perform in solo and chamber concerts
- may participate in masterclasses
- may compete in the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition
Students in the College Division work side by side with the artist faculty in the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Music Center's flagship ensemble. The orchestra performs important repertoire under its principal conductor, Keith Lockhart, and distinguished guest conductors. Each summer world-renowned soloists appear with the BMC Orchestra.
Students in the college division also perform in the Brevard Sinfonia, an all-student orchestra that likewise works under the principal conductor and guests. In weeks in which the Sinfonia does not perform, some students and faculty comprise the Brevard Festival Orchestra that performs for opera productions.
In a single week, string students play in a single orchestra. The schedule for wind students varies according to repertoire.
Woodwind, brass, and percussion players participate in large, "conducted" chamber ensembles as well as in standard smaller groups, e.g., brass and woodwind quintets, percussion ensemble. BMC's all-student contemporary ensemble, itch, presents world-premiere readings of Brevard's composition students.
