
After careful analysis of the continued global, regional, and local impact of the Coronavirus, the Trustees of the Brevard Music Center have unanimously voted to cancel its renowned Summer Music Festival, which had been scheduled for May 30 – August 22, 2020. The Brevard Music Center, one of the country’s premier training programs for young musicians, is also cancelling all educational programming during the summer of 2020.
For more information on BMC, visit brevardmusic.org, call 828-862-2100, “like” the Brevard Music Center on Facebook, follow @brevardmusic on Twitter, stream season highlights via SoundCloud, and visit the Brevard Music Center YouTube channel for performance videos from previous festival seasons.
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B Minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
THIS CONCERT IS SPONSORED BY A. STUART FENDLER FAMILY TRUST
Xavier Foley, Double Bass
The winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Career Advancement Award, Xavier Foley was also the First Prize winner of the 2014 Sphinx Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Atlanta Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Brevard Concert Orchestra, Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and with the Sphinx Virtuosi, in both Carnegie Hall and on a national tour. He was also a winner of the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and is a resident artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two program. Also a composer, he is a 2016 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied both composition and performance. He is featured in recital for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in January 2019.