The Brevard Music Center brings talented students and faculty from across the country and around the world to its campus and into our region each summer to participate in a transformative study and performance experience. Although the summer program has been canceled this year, BMC is instead offering virtual performances, activities, and educational resources you can enjoy at home. One of these activities is listening to host Joe Brant on BPR Classic for weekly broadcasts of Open Air Brevard, music recorded at the BMC and produced by WDAV radio. Featuring performances from previous seasons, each week we bring you a glimpse into activities at the Festival, including conversations with the artists and performances of magnificent music by the artists, faculty, and students at BMC.
Open Air Brevard's 2020 season begins on June 30 and concludes on August 14. Each program will air twice each week: Tuesday mornings at 10:00 and Friday afternoons at 1:00:
Opening Night 2017: Brahms Piano Concerto with Garrick Ohlsson
Tuesday, 6/30/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 7/3/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano; Ilana Davidson, soprano
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Brevard Music Center Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite (2 movements)
Beethoven’s “Pastoral”
Tuesday, 7/7/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 7/10/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Sebastian Lang-Lessing; Itamar Zorman, violin
Wagner Rienzi Overture
Berg Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
Brevard Sinfonia; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Debussy: Iberia
Brahms Second Symphony
Tuesday, 7/14/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 7/17/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor; Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
Berlioz : Roman Carnival Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Brevard Sinfonia; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Kodaly: Dance of Galanta
Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, with Olga Kern
Tuesday, 7/21/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 7/24/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor; Olga Kern, piano
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Caarolyn Huebl and Byron Tauchi, violins; Erika Eckert, viola; Benjamin Karp, cello; Craig Nies, piano
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat
Falletta Conducts Tchaikovsky
Tuesday, 7/28/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 7/31/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Chee-Yun, violin
Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (first movement)
Age of Anxiety
Tuesday, 8/4/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 8/7/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor; Norman Krieger, piano
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, “Age of Anxiety”
Brevard Sinfonia; Daniel Hege, conductor
Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Debussy: La Mer
Brevard Music Center Orchestra; Matthias Bamert, conductor
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
2016 Season Finale: The Ninth
Tuesday, 8/11/20, 10:00 am & Friday, 8/14/20, 1:00 pm
Brevard Music Center Orchestra and Festival Chorus
Keith Lockhart, conductor; Sydney Mancasola, soprano; Michèle Bogdanowicz, alto; Keith Jameson, tenor; Reginald Smith, Jr., bass
Aldridge: Janus Overture: for a new beginning
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Brevard Sinfonia
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Haydn: Symphony No. 60