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.

• Anonymous, In honor of the founder of our festival

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.

• Estate of Bryan Ford

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.

• Banner Bank

• Skip & Alison Bell

• City of Walla Walla Lodging Tax Advisory Committee

• John Jamison & Kathy Wildermuth

• David Meeker

• Walla Walla County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee

• Washington State Arts Commission

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.

• Brad Anderson & Kay Mead

• Iain & Stephanida Christie

• Columbia REA

• Edward Jones

• Mike & Sue Gillespie

• JL Stubblefield Trust

• Cathy Lee-Haight & Michael Haight

• Albert Marshall

• 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.

• Beth Barbre & John Mangan

• Kris & Tim Barry

• Blue Mountain Community Foundation

• Clara & Art Bald Trust

• Cecile & Rick Ervin

• Jamie Guerin & Ingrid Heintzberger-Vu

• Anne Haley & Jim Shepherd

• Karen Hedine & Rick Harper

• Edward & Karleen Heintzberger

• Jim Johnson

• Jane & Jeff Kreitzberg

• Mary Garner Esary Trust

• Port of Walla Walla

• John Sampen & Marilyn Shrude

• Judith Stein

• Ronald Van Yserloo, in memory of Barb Van Yserloo

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.

• Patricia Anderson

• Anonymous

• Anitra Breit

• Karl Eckhardt & Pamela Mittelstadt

• Marilyn & Robert Franklin

• Jamey Lamar

• Casey & Vicky McClellan, In memory of Charlotte Snow

• Kelly Reynolds

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.

• Earl & Sandi Blackaby

• Connie Blumenthal: Thank you for your hard work putting on the amazing programming!

• Fred & Genie Crowe

• Barbara & John DeLong

• Gene Dixon & Tim Theriac

• David Glenn & Laura Curtis

• Janeen Harbert

• Ann Johnson

• Linnea & Robert Keats

• John & Charlotte Martin

• Stacy McPherson

• Richard & Wendy Rahm

• Diane Royce, For the joy of music

• Kathleen Ruggeri

• Marlene Schuck, In memory of Mark Schuck

• La Dessa Smelcer

• Robynne Snow & Nathan Viavant, In memory of Charlotte Snow

• John Tombari

• George & Mollie Wisecarver

• 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.

• Diane & Robert Alexander

• Anonymous

• Barry Balof & Claire Valente

• Jonathan & Wendy Braid

• Benjamin Carson, In recognition of Robert J and Mary Clare Carson

• Cindy & Dick Clover

• Liz Conover

• Joyce & Ted Cox

• Nanci Crowley

• Leila El-Wakil

• Margaret Eubanks

• Bill Eyestone

• Debbie & Steve Frol

• Tricia Harding & Gary Meddaugh

• Andrew & Gail Jennings

• Sharon & Timothy Kaufman-Osborn

• Patrick Keef

• Kent Lewandowski

• Julia & Randy Long

• Mary & Michael Luce

• Jeanne McMenemy & Wayne Chabre

• Janet Miller

• Joyce Muzzall

• Gregory Nelson

• Jeff and Jennifer Northam

• Randolph & Rebekah Pearson

• Beth Powers

• Jan Roberts

• Jan Rolfe

• Leah & Tor Sandven

• Cara & Steven Setchell

• Lee Simon

• Jenny & John Stratton

• Teresa Tamura

• Nancy Taylor

• Stephen & Suzanne Towery

• Kathryn Eubanks Zahl, In honor of Stephanie McDougall

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.

• Richard Alan

• Kathryn Amende

• Doug & Karen Bayne

• Mark Brown & Laura Riley

• Chelanne Brown

• Cathy Carkner

• Ann & Richard Counsell

• Leah Davis

• Cliff & Janice Asher Dolph

• Christopher & Mardra Jay

• Renee & William McMahon

• Ben Morris, In honor of David Gawf

• Kirsten Nicolaysen, In recognition that music inspires community

• Stacia Peterson: With thanks to the Chamber Music Festival

• Candace Rose

• David Schober & Rosa Shin

• Terri Silvis

• Jenny & John Stratton

• Karen Szall & Chris Nelson

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.