Welcome
The Brevard Music Center is a summer institute and festival in western North Carolina. This satellite web site on ibiblio.org is devoted to the history of BMC. Here you will find unique archival material—text, images, audio, video—that describes the evolution of the Brevard Music Center from a small summer music camp to one of North Carolina's most significant cultural entities.
Physical archives of the Brevard Music Center are maintained on the campus. Cataloguing and preservation efforts are ongoing, and this web site will reflect the progress of those efforts.
A Brief History of BMC
In 1936 James Christian Pfohl opened a summer band camp for boys on the campus of Davidson College in North Carolina. Fifty young instrumentalists appeared for that first session. The camp lasted seven summers at Davidson and spent one summer at Queens College in Charlotte. In 1945 Pfohl moved his camp to a beautiful site just outside the town of Brevard in western North Carolina, and the now coeducational Transylvania Music Camp was born.
A few years later, Pfohl established a festival at the camp, and this soon became an integral part of the summer activities. The name was changed to "Brevard Music Center" in 1955.
In 1965 Henry Janiec succeeded James Christian Pfohl as Artistic Director. Mr. Janiec led the Center for more than thirty years, through the 1996 season.
David Effron became Artistic Director in 1997. He will retire after the 2007 season.
In 2008 Keith Lockhart becomes Artistic Advisor of the Brevard Music Center.
Visit the History pages for more detailed information.
BMC Today
Visit BMC's primary site at http://www.brevardmusic.org.
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