4th of July Events: Annual Brevard 4th of July Festival

July 4     4th of July Festival in Downtown Brevard   Activities include: 5K/10K Firecracker Run, Fine Arts and Craft Showcase, All Star Pet Show, Declaration of Independence Reading, Memorial Flag Raising, Classic Automobile Show, Old Time Fair, day-long music, Kids’ Bike Parade, Hot Dog Eating Contest, inflatables, face painting, children’s activities and end the day with the wonderful July 4th Fireworks.

Brevard Music Center First Monday Concert

March 4 at 12:30 PM in the Scott Concert Hall at the Porter Center of Brevard College The Brevard Music Center presents the First Monday Concert.

Cellist Alistair MacRae has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. His playing has been praised for its "rich sound and lyrical phrasing" (Palm Beach Daily News) and his performances have been featured in radio broadcasts across the United States.

As a New York-based chamber musician, he has appeared on Carnegie Hall's Making Music Series, as a member of Fountain Ensemble (NY) and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble (MA), with the Manhattan Sinfonietta, Suedama Ensemble (NY), and counter)induction (NY); and at summer festivals such as Monadnock Music (NH), Music Festival of the Hamptons (NY), and the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival. He has been heard at major New York chamber music venues such as Carnegie's Zankel and Weill Halls, BargeMusic, Merkin Hall, the 92nd St Y, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University. His recent se asons have included premiere performances of new works at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities; recordings of chamber music by Telemann and Laurie Altman; music for The Discovery Channel; and ensemble CDs of music by Mozart and Scott Joplin. His eclectic collaborations have found him on stage with Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Westminster Choir, tap dancer Savion Glover, jazz bassist Ben Wolfe, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and the rock band The Scorpions. 

Mr. MacRae teaches cello at Princeton University and is on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center (NC). He has given master classes and lecture-performances through the American String Teachers Association and at Marshall University (WV), the University of Utah, Palm Beach Community College (FL), and Kings College (PA). He holds degrees from Princeton University and the Manhattan School of Music.

The program includes BACH Suite No. 3 in C major for Solo Cello CASSADÓ Suite for Violoncello.

Brevard Music Center First Monday Concert Today

December 3    First Monday Concerts at Brevard College The Brevard Music Center, in partnership with Brevard College, presents free concerts to the public on the first Monday of each month from October through May.

The concerts begin at 12:30 PM and are performed at The Porter Center of Brevard College. This month's concert features Dilshad Posnock, flute; Eric Ohlsson, oboe; and Deloise Lima, piano.
 
To get a link for the Brevard Music Center and learn more about Brevard attractions click HERE.

This Weekend at The Brevard Music Center

This is an active weekend at The Brevard Msic Center:

Dialogues of the Carmelites returns to the Porter Center this week for two more matinee performances on Thursday, July 26 and Saturday, July 28 at 2:00pm. Thursday’s performance has only a few tickets left, and Saturday’s performance is already sold out. Don’t miss your last chance to see Poulenc’s beautiful and tragic opera performed in the intimate setting of Morrison Playhouse.

Friday at 7:30 is your opportunity to see not one, but two outstanding pianists play alongside the Brevard Music Center Orchestra as Robert Blocker and Bruce Murray perform Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos. Conductor David Stewart Wiley will lead the concert which also includes Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and Sibelius beloved Symphony No. 2. 

Saturday at 7:30 Maestro Wiley will return to the podium to lead the Brevard Sinfonia in an evening of unparalleled beauty as they perform Strauss’s exquisite tone poem Death and Transfiguration. Saturday’s concert will also include Hovhaness’s Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain” and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé.

On Sunday, BMC students will take center stage in two special performances and at two venues. At 3:00pm in Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Carol Nies will lead the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in Soloists of Tomorrow featuring the winners of the 2012 Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition. Then at 7:00pm at Scott Concert Hall, the BMC Piano Competition Finals, sponsored by The Zimmerli Family Opera Endowment, will finish out the day. Join us as some of our most talented young pianists compete live on stage. 

Call the box office at (828) 862-2105 or purchase tickets online.

Brevard Community Band Concert Features Steve Cohen

June 3    Brevard Community Band Concert   Clarinet soloist Steve Cohen will perform works by Rossini and Kovacs; music by Arthur Sullivan, Vaughn Williams, and others will also be on the program.

The Brevard Community Band is a summer band composed of 85+ volunteer musicians (professional and amateurs) ages 16-80+ from Brevard and surrounding areas. The band is under the direction of Jamie Hafner, Durector of Bands at Brevard College and Director Emeritus of Education of the Brevard Music Center.

The purpose of the band is to promote band music and provide an outlet for instrumentalists to express their musical talents. The band is also a philanthropic organization by providing music scholarships to local students and grants to schools to promote music education.  The concerts are performed at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium on the campus of the Brevard Music Center, 400 North Broad Street in Brevard NC.