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2009 Festivals - ongoing:
Cross Currents Chamber Music Arts Festival (Raleigh, Cary, & Durham) through July 11;
NC Symphony: Summerfest (Cary) through July 18;
Swannanoa C-M Fest. (Charlotte, Waynesville, & Swannanoa) through July 21;
American Dance Festival (Durham) through July 25;
Appalachian Summer Festival (Boone) through July 25;
Duke Summer Music (Durham) through July 29;
Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro) through August 1;
Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival (Brevard) through August 9;
Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Fest. (Highlands/Cashiers) through August 9;
Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre (Snow Camp in Alamance County) through August 22;
Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy (Raleigh) through September 20;
Outdoor Dramas through October 4;
Rocky Hock Playhouse (Washington) through December 19

2009 Summer Festivals - by starting date: ;
Carolina Summer Music Festival (Winston-Salem) August 19-29
[UNCSA Summer Performance Festival (Manteo) cancelled for 2009]

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• Friday July 10 - Highlands
  HCCMF: Richard Prior (Emory University)
  Program: Festival/Center for Life Enrichment Class: “Mendelssohn - the Second Mozart”
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 10:00 a.m.
  $. 828/526-8811

• Friday July 10 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 10 - Highlands
  HCCMF: Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet
  Program: Picnic concert - Basler: [4] Hymn Tune Settings; Kallstrom: White Water; Canadian Brass Rag; & Frazier: American Heritage Fantasy
  Kelsey-Hutchinson Park (Pine Street Park), Highlands. 5:00 p.m.
  $10, children < 12 free. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Friday July 10 - Asheville
  Jubilee! Summer Orchestra: Eric Scheider, conductor, with Jubilee Youth Theatre
  Program: The Young Old Masters: Masterpieces by Composers Under 16 - Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1: 2nd mvt; & Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 1: 2nd & 4th mvts
  Jubilee! Community, 46 Wall Street, Asheville. 7:30 p.m.
  Suggested donation $5. 828/252-5335 or http://www.jubileeorchestra.net/

• Friday July 10 - Brevard
  BMC: Winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs competition & Transylvania Symphony Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor
  Program: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $35, $30, $25, children $15, lawn $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Friday July 10 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Patagonia Films
  Program: Patagonia Wild & Scenic Film Festival
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Continues Saturday July 11 (performance) - Brevard
  BMC: David Gately, & Christopher Larkin, conductor
  Program: Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  7/9: $25, children $15; 7/11: $30, $25, $20, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Saturday July 11 - Cashiers
  HCCMF: Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet
  Program: Picnic concert - Basler: [4] Hymn Tune Settings; Kallstrom: White Water; Canadian Brass Rag; & Frazier: American Heritage Fantasy
  Zachary-Tolbert House, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $10, children < 12 free. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Saturday July 11 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Buckwheat Zydeco
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Sunday July 12 - Brevard
  BMC: Mary Phillips, alto, Michael Hendrick, tenor, & Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor
  Program: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $35, $30, $25, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/
  Related event: Musical Insights - pre-concert lecture - 7/12 @ 2p - Thomas Hall.

• Sunday July 12 - Asheville
  Asheville Lyric Opera: Erin Moorman, soprano, & Lewis Antonio Gonzalez, with Vance Reese, piano
  Program: Arias by Mozart, scenes from Donizetti's Maria Stuarda & Verdi's La Traviata, & selections from Sweeney Todd, Jeckel and Hyde, & My Fair Lady.
  St. Matthias Church in Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free. 828/252-0643

• Sunday July 12 - Waynesville
  Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: Parker String Quartet (Daniel Chong & Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola, & Kee-Hyun Kim, cello), Paul Nitsch, piano, George Pope, flute, Cynthia Watson, oboe, David Bell, clarinet, John Kehayas, bassoon, & Bill Hoyt, horn
  Program: Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31, for wind quintet; Bartòk: Quartet No. 1, Op. 7; Dvoràk: Cypresses; & Mozart: Quintet, K.452, for piano & winds
  Performing Arts Center, Waynesville. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 704/337-2213 or http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/
  Related event: 7/9 @ 730p - Lecture/demo - Music Building, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa - free.

•  Sunday July 12 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Sarah Chang, violin, & Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Sunday-Monday July 12-13 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Saxton Rose, bassoon, John Dee, oboe, & Laura Ardan, clarinet
  Program: Winds in the Mountains - Telemann: Bassoon Sonata; Britten: Metamorphoses; Gershwin: [3] Etudes for Clarinet; & Villa-Lobos: Trio
  7/12: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 5:00 p.m.; & 7/13: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Monday July 13 - Brevard
  BMC: Musical Ventures
  Program: Members of the Brevard Music Center artist faculty perform and discuss chamber and solo works in the Porter Center.
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday July 13 - Brevard
  BMC: Andrés Díaz, cello, & Friends
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday July 13 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: “Vitus” (film)
  Dragonfly Theater & Pub, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $10. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Tuesday July 14 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday July 14 – Highlands
  HCCMF: Movies about Music
  Program: The Benny Goodman Story, with a short performance by William Ransom, piano
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 7:00 p.m.
  Free. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Tuesday July 14 - Brevard
  BMC: Transylvania Symphonic Band, Kraig Williams, conductor
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Tuesday July 14 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Paul Taylor Dance
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Tuesday July 14 - Swannanoa
  Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: Parker String Quartet (Daniel Chong & Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola, & Kee-Hyun Kim, cello), Paul Nitsch, piano, George Pope, flute, Cynthia Watson, oboe, David Bell, clarinet, John Kehayas, bassoon, & Bill Hoyt, horn
  Program: Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31, for wind quintet; Bartòk: Quartet No. 1, Op. 7; Dvoràk: Cypresses; & Mozart: Quintet, K.452, for piano & winds
  Kittridge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. 8:00 p.m.
  $20. 704/337-2213 or http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/

• Wednesday July 15 - Brevard
  BMC: Student pianists
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday July 15 - Brevard
  BMC: Roberto Díaz, viola, & Friends
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday July 15 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  Rosen Concert Hall, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $18. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/
  Related event: Cellist Darrett Adkins will be in residence at the festival July 16-21.

• Thursday July 16 - Brevard
  BMC: Student Recital
  Straus Auditorium, BMC, Brevard. 4:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 17 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 17 - Brevard
  BMC: Transylvania Symphony Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conductor
  Program: Vaughn Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $30, $25, $20, children $15, lawn $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 17- Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Paula Poundstone
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Friday-Saturday July 17-18 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Biava Quartet & William Ransom, piano
  Program: Haydn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20/5; Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 in D; & Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor
  7/17: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 6:00 p.m.; & 7/18: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Saturday July 18 - Brevard
  BMC: Brevard Sinfonia, Keith Lockhart, conductor
  Program: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; & Stravinsky: Suite from Pulcinella
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $35, $30, $25, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Saturday July 18 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Mike Cross
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Saturday July 18 - Charlotte
  Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: Parker String Quartet (Daniel Chong & Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola, & Kee-Hyun Kim, cello), Paul Nitsch, piano, Tracy Rowell, bass, & Bill Hoyt, horn
  Program: Haydn: Divertimento; Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 18/3; & Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D.667 (Trout)
  Dana Auditorium, Queens University, Charlotte. 8:00 p.m. (time is tentative)
  $20. 704/337-2213 or http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/

• Sunday July 19 - Asheville
  Concerts at St. Matthias: Woodwind Trio (Terri Armfield, oboe, Townes Osborn Miller, flute, & Will Peebles,bassoon)
  Program: Music by Handel, Haydn, Debussy, & others
  St. Matthias Church, South Charlotte Street, Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free will offering for the restoration of the church & for the
  ensemble. 828/252-0643

• Sunday July 19 - Brevard
  BMC: Elena Urioste, violin, & Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conductor
  Program: Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21; Barber: Violin Concerto, Op.14; Ravel: La Valse, & Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $35, $30, $25, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/
  Related event: Musical Insights - pre-concert lecture - 7/19 @ 2p - Thomas Hall.

• Sunday July 19 - Waynesville
  Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: Parker String Quartet (Daniel Chong & Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola, & Kee-Hyun Kim, cello), Paul Nitsch, piano, Tracy Rowell, bass, & Bill Hoyt, horn
  Program: Haydn: Divertimento; Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 18/3; & Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D.667 (Trout)
  Performing Arts Center, Waynesville. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 704/337-2213 or http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/

•   Sunday July 19 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer Festival & EMF: Horacio Gutiérrez, piano, & Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz & Bright Sheng, conductors
  Program: Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b, & Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58; Bright Sheng: Tibetan Swing; & Janácek: Sinfonietta
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Sunday-Monday July 19-20 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Biava Quartet & Miles Hoffman, viola
  Program: Schubert: Quartettsatz; Mendelssohn: Viola Quintet in B Flat; & Grieg: String Quartet in G Minor
  7/19: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 5:00 p.m.; & 7/20: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Monday July 20 - Brevard
  BMC: Musical Ventures
  Program: Members of the Brevard Music Center artist faculty perform and discuss chamber and solo works in the Porter Center.
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday July 20 - Brevard
  BMC: Biava Quartet
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday July 20 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  Rosen Concert Hall, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $18. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Tuesday July 21 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday July 21 – Highlands
  HCCMF: Movies about Music
  Program: Fantasia
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 7:00 p.m.
  Free. 828-526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Tuesday July 21 - Swannanoa
  Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: Parker String Quartet (Daniel Chong & Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola, & Kee-Hyun Kim, cello), Paul Nitsch, piano, Tracy Rowell, bass, & Bill Hoyt, horn
  Program: Haydn: Divertimento; Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 18/3; & Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D.667 (Trout)
  Kittridge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. 8:00 p.m.
  $20. 704/337-2213 or http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/

• Tuesday-Wednesday July 21-22 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Triad Stage
  Program: Oleanna
  Valborg Theatre, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $20. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Wednesday July 22 - Brevard
  BMC: Student pianists
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday July 22 (dress rehearsal) & Saturday July 25 (performance) - Brevard
  BMC: Dolly Gallagher Levi, directed by David Gately, & conducted by Ken Lam
  Program: Herman: Hello, Dolly!
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  7/22: $25, children $15; 7/25: $40, $35, $30, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Thursday July 23 - Brevard
  BMC: Student Recital
  Straus Auditorium, BMC, Brevard. 4:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Thursday July 23 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Joan Baez
  Farthing Auditorium, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $25. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Friday July 24 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 24 - Brevard
  BMC: J. Patrick Rafferty, violin, & Transylvania Symphony Orchestra, Leith Lockhart, conductor
  Program: All-American program - Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11; Copland: Lincoln Portrait; & Gershwin: An American in Paris
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $35, $30, $25, children $15, lawn $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Friday-Saturday July 24-25 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Robert Henry, piano, Yinzi Kong, viola, & Cecylia Arzewski, violin
  Program: Bach for One - Suite in C; Prelude and Fugue in D; & Sonata in C
  7/24: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 6:00 p.m.; & 7/25: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Saturday July 25 - Boone
  Appalachian Summer: Kenny Loggins
  Holmes Convocation Center, ASU, Boone. 8:00 p.m.
  $30. 800-841-ARTS or http://www.appsummer.org/

• Sunday July 26 - Asheville
  Concerts at St. Matthias: Peter Fletcher, guitar
  Program will feature selections from Fletcher's 2008 CD release..., Music of the Baroque. Other repertoire will include: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantata No. 147, and the E minor Lute Suite of J. S. Bach; Fletcher's transcriptions of Erik Satie and Edvard Grieg; Usher-Waltz, ...by Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin; the ... Cavatina from ...The Deer Hunter ... by Stanley Myers and music of Weiss, Albeniz, Villa-Lobos and Reusner The concert will culminate with Koyunbaba, by composer/guitarist Carlo Domeniconi....
  St. Matthias Church, South Charlotte Street, Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free will offering for the restoration of the church & for the ensemble. 828/252-0643

• Sunday July 26 - Brevard
  BMC: Orchestra, with Keith Lockhart, David Effron, & Henry Janiec, conductors
  Program includes Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathétique")
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $50, $45, $40, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/
  Related event: Musical Insights - pre-concert lecture - 7/26 @ 2p - Thomas Hall.

• Sunday-Monday July 26-27 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Robert Henry, piano, & Christopher Rex, cello
  Program: Pictures at an Exhibition - Debussy: Images, Book I, & Sonata for Cello and Piano; & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
  7/26: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 5:00 p.m.; & 7/27: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Monday July 27 - Brevard
  BMC: Musical Ventures
  Program: Members of the Brevard Music Center artist faculty perform and discuss chamber and solo works in the Porter Center.
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday July 27 - Brevard
  BMC: Biava Quartet
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday July 28 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday July 28 – Highlands
  HCCMF: Movies about Music
  Program: Unfaithfully Yours
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 7:00 p.m.
  Free. 828-526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Tuesday July 28 - Brevard
  BMC: Transylvania Symphonic Band, Kraig Williams, conductor
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Wednesday July 29 - Brevard
  BMC: Student pianists
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday July 29 - Brevard
  BMC: Members of the Janiec Opera Company
  Program: Opera Scenes
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday July 29 - Highlands
  HCCMF: Vega String Quartet
  Program: Bach at Buck's
  Buck’s Coffee Cafe, Main Street, Highlands. 8:00 p.m.
  Free. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Thursday July 30 - Brevard
  BMC: Student Recital
  Straus Auditorium, BMC, Brevard. 4:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 31 - Highlands
  HCCMF: Ferdinando De Sena, composer
  Program: Festival/Center for Life Enrichment Class: On Contemporary Music
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 10 a.m.
  $. 828/526-8811
  Related event(s): Evening performances of the composer's "Directed Ambience," for harp & electronics, with Valerie von Pechy Whitcup.

• Friday July 31 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday July 31 - Brevard
  BMC: Winners of the annual Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition with BMC Orchestra, Ken Lam, conductor
  Program: Soloists of Tomorrow
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $30, $25, $20, children $15, lawn $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday-Saturday July 31 - August 1 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: William Preucil, violin, William Ransom, piano, Valerie von Pechy Whitcup, harp, Ferdinando De Sena, composer, & Charae Krueger, cello
  Program: Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F; De Sena: Directed Ambience for Harp and Electronics; & Mendelssohn: Trio in D Minor
  7/31: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 6:00 p.m.; & 8/1: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Saturday August 1 - Brevard
  BMC: Brevard Sinfonia, Grant Llewellyn, conductor
  Program: Elgar: Enigma Variations
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $30, $25, $20, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Sunday August 2 - Asheville
  First Sunday Series: Brass Quintet – Biltmore Brass
  St. Matthias Church, South Charlotte Street, Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free will offering for the restoration of the church & for the
  ensemble. 828/252-0643

• Sunday August 2 - Brevard
  BMC: Soloists t.b.a., Festival Chorus, & Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Grant Llewellyn, conductor
  Program: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $50, $45, $40, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.
  Related event: Musical Insights - pre-concert lecture - 8/2 @ 2p - Thomas Hall.

• Sunday-Monday August 2-3 - Highlands & Cashiers
  HCCMF: Vega String Quartet with William Preucil & Kate Ransom, violins, Eun Sun Lee, viola, & Charae Krueger, cello
  Program: Haydn: Sunrise String Quartet; Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 131; & Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings
  8/2: Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 5:00 p.m.; & 8/3: Albert Carlton Library, Cashiers. 5:00 p.m.
  $. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Monday August 3 - Brevard
  BMC: Musical Ventures
  Program: Members of the Brevard Music Center artist faculty perform and discuss chamber and solo works in the Porter Center.
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Monday August 3 - Brevard
  BMC: I Solisti di Brevard
  Program: Merula: Ciaccona
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $20. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday August 4 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday August 4 – Highlands
  HCCMF: Movies about Music
  Program: Song of Norway
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 7:00 p.m.
  Free. 828-526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Wednesday August 5 - Brevard
  BMC: Student pianists
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Wednesday August 5 - Brevard
  BMC: Chamber Music
  Program: Beethoven: Quintet in E-Flat for Piano & Winds, Op. 16; & Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Thursday August 6 - Brevard
  BMC: Student Recital
  Straus Auditorium, BMC, Brevard. 4:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Thursday August 6 (dress rehearsal) & Saturday August 8 (performance) - Brevard
  BMC: Dean Anthony, directed by David Gately, & with Scott Bergeson, conductor
  Program: Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  8/6: $25, children $15; 8/8: $30, $25, $20, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Friday August 7 - Brevard
  BMC @ TCL
  Program: Brevard Music Center students perform chamber music
  Transylvania County Library, Brevard. 12:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Friday August 7 - Brevard
  BMC: Transylvania Symphony Orchestra, André Raphel Smith, conductor
  Program: Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra; Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 3; & Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $30, $25, $20, children $15, lawn $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.

• Tuesday August 8 - Brevard
  BMC: Transylvania Symphonic Band, Kraig Williams, conductor
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  Free. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/

• Sunday August 9 - Brevard
  BMC: Olga Kern, piano, & Orchestra, André Raphel Smith, conductor
  Program: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, & Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
  Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium, Brevard. 3:00 p.m.
  $40, $35, $30, children $15. 828/862-2105, 888/384-8682, or http://www.brevardmusic.org/.
  Related event: Musical Insights - pre-concert lecture - 8/9 @ 2p - Thomas Hall.

• Sunday August 9 - Highlands
  HCCMF: Eroica Trio (Susie Park, Sara Sant’Ambrogio, & Erika Nickrenz)
  Program: Trios by Cassado & Lalo, & an encore performance of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite.
  Performing Arts Center, Highlands. 5:00 p.m.
  $. Ticket price includes concert, celebratory reception, and dinner at the Wildcat Cliffs Country Club. 828/526-9060 or http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/

• Sunday August 16 - Asheville
  Concerts at St. Matthias: Silverwood Trio (2 flutes & cello)
  St. Matthias Church, South Charlotte Street, Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free will offering for the restoration of the church & for the
  ensemble. 828/252-0643

• Friday September 4 - Brevard
  Porter Center Special Event: Randall Atcheson, piano & organ
  Porter Center, Brevard College, Brevard. 7:30 p.m.
  $25, students/children $10. 828-884-8330 or http://www.theportercenter.org/

• Sunday September 6 - Asheville
  First Sunday Series: String Quartet
  St. Matthias Church, South Charlotte Street, Asheville. 3:00 p.m.
  Free will offering for the restoration of the church & for the
  ensemble. 828/252-0643