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Brevard Music Center
Last edited by Dorothy Knowles.
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Brevard Music Center
349 Andante Lane
Brevard, North Carolina
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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 offers programs in orchestral studies, piano, composition, voice (for high school students), and 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. Admission to Brevard requires an audition. Tuition compares favorably to other elite summer music programs, and most students receive financial aid via grants and work study. 2009 Faculty is now posted online.
To register, or for more information:
Call 828-862-2140
http://www.brevardmusic.org/
Comments
From Natasha Marsalli (Posted: Apr 10, 2008)
I've spent two summers there as a high school student and I have to say, while it was loads of fun and I made lots of new friends, I came away rather annoyed. True, their financial aid is good, the orchestras are out of this world, and there are more concerts than you can go to, I didn't have ANY and I mean ANY time to practice. I was in rehearsals for six hours a day, on average, and then I had to eat and do my work study and attend concerts, do laundry, and do the mandatory cabin chores. I had to get up at 5:30 to practice (the only time you could actually find a practice room anyways) after going to bed late after the concerts, and then I only had time to practice ensemble music and no time to work on solo stuff. I also have to say I had some very bad experiences with some of the people there. We had a real troublemaker in our cabin who was doing drugs, stealing alcohol, and all around being a serious problem. And the best part was that the people in charge did nothing and blamed us for "excluding others." In fact, the lousy management of the, shall we say, "different" people there was one of the main reasons I am not attending again.
From Karen Sternkopf (Posted: Sep 29, 2007)
The two summers I spent there in '73 and '74 were the highlight of my life. I learned SO much those summers it was unbelievable. I was thrilled to play under such well known conductors, sing under Robert Shaw, listen to soloists I had only dreamed of seeing, and, be in the midst of the beautiful Smokey Mountains among true Southern Hospitality. I was able to play with students whose teachers were the best of the best. I was bursting with happiness as I immersed myself in my love of music. I will never forget Brevard, it will always hold a special place in my heart and my memories. Long live BMC and God Bless the people that make it possible to keep running year after year. :-)
From Maeve O'Hara (Posted: Sep 19, 2007)
I agree with the comment above--the advanced chamber music division is great, if you can get in. If you're going to Brevard as a standard student, be prepared to WORK! As a college aged student, the majority of your work is orchestra based. You'll be in two different orchestras at the same time-- it's a lot of rep, and it doesn't leave much time for practicing solo repertoire. There's 5 hours of orchestra on a weekday, plus (optional) chamber groups, and a private lesson once a week. I made some great friends, got a lot of orchestra rep under my belt, and had a lot of fun at Brevard, but I didn't get the practice time I wanted. Financial aid is great -- apply for all the ways to go for free (teaching assistant, head resident, advanced chamber music)!
From Daniel Chandler (Posted: Apr 12, 2007)
My daughter went a couple of years ago. She attended the Chamber Music Workshop. It has only 16 spots but it is all expenses paid. Great coaching plus a chance to play in the orchestra and get private lessons. Musicians are quite advanced. Her quartet mates were a) in last year of conservatory, b) in graduate school, c) graduated from graduate school.
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