2025 Guest Artist Highlights
In 2025, the Miró Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGill hold the Thomas C. Bolton Distinguished Artist Chair, a program supported by The Payne Fund. These residencies will include recitals, teaching, seminars, and solo and chamber music masterclasses. Additional guest artists in performance include pianist Yuja Wang, pianist Richard Goode, the Pacifica Quartet, and violinist Stella Chen, to name a few.
In addition, the season's guest conductors include Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Grams, Chloé van Soeterstéde, and Mei Ann Chen in addition to Artistic Director Keith Lockhart, Principal Guest Conductor JoAnn Falletta, and Resident Conductor Ken Lam.
Featured female living composers in residence and performance include Jennifer Higdon, Cindy McTee, and Caroline Shaw. We will also welcome composer Mason Bates to campus for a world premiere co-commission with Time for Three.
2025 Concerts
Preseason Events
Jazz Institute Closing Concert
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30pm - Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium
Flute Seminar - Student Recital (free event)
Thursday, June 12 at 2:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Low Brass Seminar - Student Recital (free event)
Thursday, June 12 at 4:30pm - Parker Concert Hall
Brevard Music Center Orchestra (BMCO) and Brevard Sinfonia
College Division Students
Friday, June 20 at 7:30pm - BMCO with JoAnn Falletta, conductor / Anna Tsybuleva, piano
JENNIFER HIGDON blue cathedral
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
Sunday, June 22 at 3:00pm - Sinfonia with JoAnn Falletta, conductor / Nathan Amaral, violin
JENNIFER HIGDON Cold Mountain Suite
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
NIKOLAI TCHEREPNIN La Princesse Lointaine
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini
Friday, June 27 at 7:30pm - Sinfonia with Andrew Grams, conductor / Masumi Per Rostad, viola
RICHARD WAGNER Overture to Die Meistersinger
JESSIE MONTGOMERY L.E.S. Characters (Concerto for Viola and Orchestra)
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
Saturday, June 28 at 7:30pm - BMCO with Keith Lockhart, conductor / Time for Three, soloists
MASON BATES Rusty Air in Carolina
MASON BATES Silicon Hymnal
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Thursday, July 3 at 7:30pm - BMCO with Leonard Slatkin, conductor / Stella Chen, violin
CINDY MCTEE Double Play
SAMUEL BARBER Violin Concerto
ANTONIN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Saturday, July 5 at 7:30pm - Sinfonia with Chloé van Soeterstède, conductor / Santiago Cañón-Valencia, cello
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Banner
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
Friday, July 11 at 7:30pm - BMCO with Keith Lockhart, conductor
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 7
Sunday, July 13 at 3:00pm - Sinfonia with Keith Lockhart, conductor / Norman Krieger, piano
ROBERT LIVINGSTONE ALDRIDGE Elmer Gantry Suite
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
PAUL HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler
Friday, July 18 at 7:30pm - BMCO with Mei-Ann Chen, conductor / Anthony McGill, clarinet
CAROLINE SHAW The Observatory
W.A. MOZART Clarinet Concerto
JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Saturday, July 19 at 7:30pm - Sinfonia with Mei-Ann Chen, conductor / Tae-Yeon Kim, cello
FRANCIS POULENC Les biches
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra
Wednesday, July 23 at 7:30pm - BMCO with Teddy Abrams, conductor / Yuja Wang, piano
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun)
MAURICE RAVEL Concerto for Left Hand
SERGEI PROKOFIEV March and Scherzo from The Love of Three Oranges, Op. 33
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
Saturday, July 26 at 8:30pm - Sinfonia with Shih-Hung Young, conductor
JURASSIC PARK IN CONCERT
Sunday, July 27 at 3:00pm - BMCO with Ken Lam, conductor / Winners of the Concerto Competition
RORY BRICCA Active Galactic Nuclei
BEDŘICH SMETANA Selections from Má Vlast
Saturday, August 2 at 7:30pm - Sinfonia with Ken Lam, conductor / Maria Ioudenitch, violin
ARAM KHACHATURIAN Gayane: Three Pieces
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2
EDWARD ELGAR Enigma Variations
Sunday, August 3 at 3:30pm - BMCO with Keith Lockhart, conductor / Richard Goode, piano
W.A. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K.503
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony
Brevard Concert Orchestra/Brevard Symphonic Winds
High School Division Students
Friday, July 4 at 2:00pm - BSW - Kraig Alan Williams, conductor
Pendergrast Family Patriotic Pops
Sunday, July 6 at 3:00pm - BCO - Ken Lam, conductor
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
JEAN SIBELIUS Suite from Karelia
AARON COPLAND An Outdoor Overture
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Thursday, July 17 at 7:30pm - BSW - Kraig Alan Williams, conductor (free event)
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
JOE HISAISHI Symphonic Suite “Cinema Trilogy” from Studio Ghibli Collection
JOE HISAISHI Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea, “Fantasy for Band”
PAUL HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Sunday, July 20 at 3:00pm - BCO - Ken Lam, conductor / Caroline Shaw, vocalist
ALEXANDER BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
CAROLINE SHAW Is a Rose
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Friday, August 1 at 7:30pm - BCO & BSW - Keith Lockhart, conductor / Kraig Alan Williams, conductor
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Matinées musicales
JULIE GIROUX Symphony No. 5, “Elements”
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Háry János Suite
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
Janiec Opera Company
College Division Students
The Elixir of Love - Gaetano Donizetti (sung in Italian)
Cinderella - Pauline Viardot (sung in French with English dialogue)
The Magic Flute - W.A. Mozart (sung in English with English dialogue)
An Evening of Operetta
Free Events
Just Brass
Tuesday, July 15, 7:30pm - Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium
Brevard Symphonic Winds
Thursday, July 17, 7:30pm - Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium
Supersonic Percussion
Sunday, July 27, 7:30pm - Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium
Student Piano Recitals
Wednesday, June 25, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 2, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 9, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 16, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 23, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 30, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Saturday, August 2, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
BMC@TCL
Monday, June 30, 1:00pm - Transylvania County Library
Monday, July 7, 1:00pm - Transylvania County Library
Monday, July 14, 1:00pm - Transylvania County Library
Monday, July 21, 1:00pm - Transylvania County Library
Monday, July 28, 1:00pm - Transylvania County Library
Composition - New Songs Recital
Tuesday, July 1, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Composition - Piano Etude Recital
Friday, July 25, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Composition - New Music Ensemble
Saturday, July 5, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Saturday, July 19, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Friday, August 1, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Classical Guitar Studio Recitals
Thursday, July 3, 4:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Thursday, July 17, 4:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Saxophone Studio Recitals
Friday, July 11, 1:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
Friday, August 1, 4:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
High School Voice - Musical Theater Recital
Friday, July 11, 4:00pm - Parker Concert Hall
High School Voice - Classical Voice Recital
Saturday, August 2, 4:00pm - Parker Concert Hall