The Brevard Music
Center was founded by Davidson faculty member James Christian
Pfohl and started as a summer music camp for boys at Davidson
College. He moved the program to its present location in Brevard
NC, and instituted a festival of concerts in 1945.
The Brevard Music
Center has continued to be a large part of our cultural scene
drawing worldclass performers. Each year approximately four
hundred students are accepted into the music school, and participate
in orchestra and other large ensembles, play chamber music,
study composition, and take private lessons. The Center offers
instruction in orchestral instruments, piano, composition,
and opera. Two-thirds of the student body are college age
or older, and all students live on the wooded campus of one
hundred fifty acres.
The school has
close to 60 faculty from other orchestras, universities and
conservatories in the US who come teach and perform throughout
the summer. There are 3 auditoriums on campus, one of which
seats 1800 (Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium) that hosts more
than eighty public concerts each year, attracting thousands
of music lovers from around the country. Thus the Brevard
Music Center contributes substantially to the economy of Western
North Carolina.
The programs are
fantastic and with season tickets you are assured of not missing
a concert. Our son, who is a violinist, spent the summer at
the music school when he was a sophomore in high school and
he said it was an “awesome time”. That summer
we didn’t miss a single concert!
