Corporate sponsorship at BMC provides targeted opportunities to build and enhance your corporate image and invaluable access to our 35,000 affluent and influential patrons.

The Brevard Music Center is a nationally recognized summer educational institution that provides young musicians with the opportunity to develop their talents. It is a community of students and professional musicians who aspire to ever-higher levels of artistry for seven weeks each summer. Playing side-by-side, students, faculty and guest artists present public concerts, including fully staged operas and musicals, for a paying audience. A consistently high level of public performance is a hallmark of the Brevard Music Center.

• Led by renowned conductor, Keith Lockhart — conductor of the Boston Pops
• Top performing artists, teachers, and students from across the country and around the world
• Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of scenic Western North Carolina
• Wealthy, sophisticated, devoted audience

The Brevard Music Center audience of more than 35,000 is affluent, cultured, nationally influential, and well-traveled. Patrons' strong affiliation with the Festival's heritage and their loyalty to BMC as an institution is notable.

• Over 70% of patron households are headed by someone over the age of 60
• Average household income: over $80,000
• More than 40% of BMC audience members are from outside the state of North Carolina, many concentrated in Atlanta; Greenville, SC; Charleston; Jacksonville, Savannah; and Miami.

• Season Sponsorship
• Sponsorship of the Institute
• Series — Get an entire summer of events
• Opera
• Free weekly recitals and concerts
• Individual Performances — An excellent opportunity for hospitality. Bring your clients to a concert and reception at BMC, sponsored by your company.
• Gala Events
• Radio Broadcasts in markets such as Charlotte, NC
• Many more options

BMC sponsorships are individually designed and tailored to meet each contributor's specific marketing goals. Examples of goals met by past and current sponsors include:

• Display your products at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium or Porter Center for BMC patrons, students, faculty, and/or guest artists to use or see
• Distribute products to students upon registration
• Sell your product onsite at concerts
• Host a pre- or post-concert reception on the BMC grounds with your products
• Include products or promotional material in donor gift bags

• Logo and company name included on prominent Institute and Festival print collateral
• Ad space in BMC's Season Program Guide
• Prominent on-site signage
• Logo on supertitle screen before opera performances

• Meet the artists and students
• Host a private reception before or after a concert with the BMC president and/or music director in attendance
• Host a special pre-concert talk with the BMC artistic advisor; or send your clients and executives on a backstage tour of the concert facilities
• Host a reception for BMC donors
• Concert Tickets
• Tailor press efforts around partnership for articles locally, regionally, nationally
• Create a press event around product partnerships
• Create patron-reward events around product (e.g. "Free Wine Fridays" or test-drive opportunities)

Whatever your visibility, branding or entertainment needs, we can help you identify and select the best fit for your company. For information please email us at development@brevardmusic.org or call (828) 862-2121.