your support.

GIFTS OF $50,000 AND UP

The Living Composer Circle

Living Composer’s Lifespan: Still Kicking. Music is alive. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the works of our present day. New works give us the perspective to appreciate that all music was once new, surprising, and even shocking. By performing and championing the works of our musical present, we are better able to appreciate the masterpieces of the past.

GIFTS OF $20,000 TO $49,999

The Josef Haydn Circle

Haydn’s Lifespan: 77 years. Haydn was the most prolific composer of symphonic and chamber music during the Classical Era. He invented the String Quartet and perfected the form in his mature works. “Papa” Haydn, as he was known, lived to the ripe age of 77 and is considered to be the father of chamber music as we know it.

• Darcie Furlan

• Susan Monahan & Mark Brucks

GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $19,999

The Clara Schumann Circle

Clara Schumann’s Lifespan: 76 years. A virtuoso pianist, patient mentor to both her husband Robert and her dear friend Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann was also a composer of exquisite refinement, nowhere more so than in her chamber music.

• Michael D Martin

GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $9,999

The Johannes Brahms Circle

Brahms’ Lifespan: 63 years. Brahms was perhaps the most influential composer of symphonic and chamber music in the nineteenth century after Beethoven. The variety, breadth, and beauty of his chamber music, as well as his contributions as a teacher, make him a towering figure on the musical landscape.

• Alison & Norman Bell

• David Meeker*

GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $4,999

The Ludwig van Beethoven Circle

Beethoven’s Lifespan: 56 years. Beethoven cast a long shadow across the nineteenth century and beyond. His late string quartets remain revolutionary works to this day. Despite his deafness, Beethoven did more to change the course of music than any other composer.

• Mike & Sue Gillespie

• Brenda Ramirez

• Dick & Julie Swenson*

GIFTS OF $1,000 TO $2,499

The Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Circle

Tchaikovsky Lifespan: 53 years. Tchaikovsky was a melodist of endless invention. Though we know him by the cannon fire of his “1812 Overture,” Tchaikovsky truly reveals himself through his music for the great indoors, his chamber music.

• Kris & Tim Barry*

• Iain Christie, in memory of our beloved Stephanida Christie*

• Rebekka Christie & Karun Sharma, in memory of Stephanida Christie

• Karl Eckhardt & Pamela Mittelstadt

• Cecile & Rick Ervin*

• Bryan Ford Foundation

• Edward & Karleen Heintzberger

• James M Johnson

• Jane & Jeff Kreitzberg

• Margo & Tom Scribner

GIFTS OF $500 TO $999

The Felix Mendelssohn Circle

Mendelssohn’s Lifespan: 38 years. Mendelssohn’s contributions include rediscovering the music of Bach and pioneering new forms, such as “Songs Without Words.” Mendelssohn both protected the legacy of the past and looked to the future.

• Anitra & Thomas Breit*

• Cindy & Dick Clover

• Sharma & Tom Davidson

• Karen Hedine*

• J & S Foundation*

• Margaret Jamison, with thanks to Timothy Christie

• Ann Johnson

• Kelly Reynolds

• Carl & Tracy Rowe

• La Dessa Smelcer, in memory of Dale Smelcer

GIFTS OF $300 TO $499

The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Circle

Mozart’s Lifespan: 35 years. His every work a pearl, every musical gesture a poem, Mozart is perfection.

• Becky Burad

• Fred & Genie Crowe*

• Gene Dixon & Tim Theriac

• Barbara & Bill Manierre

• John Tombari

• Robert & Jill Zagelow*

GIFTS OF $100 TO $299

The Franz Schubert Circle

Schubert’s lifespan: 31 years. A prolific composer of songs, Schubert took chamber music to lyrical heights.

• Anonymous*

• Richard Alan

• Max Ball & Suzanne Watnick*

• Wayne Chabre & Jeanne McMenemy*

• Liz Conover, in honor of Timothy Christie

• Margaret Eubanks

• Bill Eyestone*

• MaryJo & Robert Fontenot

• John Jamison & Katherine Wildermuth*

• Jeanine Johnston*

• Sharon & Timothy Kaufman-Osborn*

• Patrick Keef and Nancy Mitchell*

• Joyce Muzzall

• Jeff & Jennifer Northam

• Michael Reese & Amy Watkins*

• Jan Roberts

• Jan Rolfe

• Diane Royce, in memory of Susan Johnson

• Kathy Ruggeri*

• Robynne Snow & Peter Viavant, in memory of Charlotte Snow

• Karen Szall*

• Juli & Larry Weiss

• Andy Zahl, in honor of Kathryn Zahl

GIFTS OF UP TO $99

The Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Circle

Pergolesi’s Lifespan: 26 years. Though short-lived, Pergolesi was a prolific composer of operatic, sacred, and chamber music. His “Stabat Mater” has been performed annually on Good Friday in Naples, Italy, for almost 300 years.

• Earl & Sandi Blackaby, in memory of Myrna Mullard

• Chelanne Brown, in memory of Sigrid Grinius

• Gloria Burkhardt, in memory of Ginette Guerin

• Heidi Dobson

• Melissa Gierman

• Winifred Graham, in memory of John Graham

• William Hickey

• Jenny & John Stratton*

• Donald & Valerie Weaver

How we acknowledge the generosity of our beloved audience:

• All entries are alphabetical by last name within each circle.

• Where couples share a last name, entries are alphabetical by first name.

• Where couples have different last names, entries are alphabetical by last name within the entry.

The fiscal year of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is September 1 to August 31. The above list reflects contributions made May 1 through December 16, 2025. In cases where a donor made more than one gift during this period, the assignment to a giving circle is based on the total of their contributions. Gifts with dedications are recognized individually and not aggregated.

* Valley Giving Guide