THESE COMPOSERS ARE SILENT WITHOUT

your support.

The Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival relies on community support for its success.

Festival Giving Circles

The fiscal year of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is September 1 to August 31. The following list reflects contributions made during FY2023/2024.

A very special thank you to the Blue Mountain Community Foundation for matching funds provided through its Valley Giving Guide.

 

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.

  • Anonymous, in memory of Tim Brown — gentle soul, enquiring mind, devoted to chamber music

  • 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.

 

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

  • Blue Mountain Community Foundation

  • City of Walla Walla

  • John Jamison & Kathy Wildermuth

 

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 and Kay Mead

  • Iain & Stephanida Christie

  • Columbia REA

  • Edward Jones

  • Michael Haight & Kathy Lee Haight

  • Albert Marshall

  • Steven Maxood

  • J.L. Stubblefield Trust

  • 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

  • Elizabeth Carr, In memory of Maureen Duryee, Best of friends

  • Karl Eckhardt & Pamela Mittelstadt

  • Cecile & Rick Ervin

  • Mike & Sue Gillespie

  • Anne Haley & Jim Shepherd

  • Edward & Karleen Heintzberger

  • Jim Johnson

  • Jane & Jeffrey Kreitzberg

  • Port of Walla Walla

  • John Sampen & Marilyn Shrude

  • Margo & Tom Scribner

  • Washington State Arts Commission

  • Ron 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.

  • Anonymous

  • Anitra Breit

  • Margaret Jamison

  • Michael & Teresa Lauver

  • Jennifer Miller

  • George-Anne Robertson

  • Rebekka Christie Sharma & family

  • Judith Shulman

 

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.

  • Lenore Barkan & Ronald F Urban

  • Brasserie Four

  • Patricia Cleavenger

  • Fred & Genie Crowe

  • Bruce & Tina Dumser

  • David Glenn & Laura Curtis

  • Kathi & Ted Lucia

  • Victoria McClellan

  • Karen Miller

  • Diane Royce, In memory of James Burse Royce

  • Mark & Marlene Schuck

  • Dale & La Dessa Smelcer

  • John Tombari

 

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.

  • Richard Alan

  • Diane & Robert Alexander

  • Joan Bateman & Mark Srull

  • Earl & Sandra Blackaby

  • Becky Burad

  • Jon & Mary Campbell

  • Lou Ann Casper, In memory of Timothy T. Brown

  • Joyce & Ted Cox

  • Fred & Genie Crowe, In memory of Tim Brown

  • Nanci Crowley

  • Michael Davidson

  • Elaine Eaker

  • Leila El-Wakil, In recognition of T. Christie & M. Sampen

  • Meg Eubanks

  • Bill & Janice Eyestone

  • MaryJo & Robert Fontenot

  • Debbie & Steve Frol

  • Melissa Gierman & Ronald Tokar

  • Janeen Harbert

  • Karen Hedine

  • Jake Hollopeter

  • Ann Johnson

  • Jeanine Johnston

  • Charleen Kaaen

  • Sherrie Kamara & Steve Rapp

  • Sharon & Timothy Kaufman-Osborn

  • Danny Kikuchi, In memory of Bryan Ford

  • Becky & Sam Kirtley

  • Kent Lewandowski

  • Mary & Michael Luce

  • Barbara & Bill Manierre

  • Albert Marshall, In memory of Bryan Ford

  • Stacy McPherson

  • Janet & Robert Miller

  • Joyce Muzall

  • Greg Nelson, In honor of Molly Reid

  • Becky & Randy Pearson

  • Brenda Ramirez

  • Jan Rolfe

  • Margo & Tom Scribner, In memory of Tim Brown

  • Anne-Marie Zell Schwerin & Don Schwerin

  • Robynne Snow/Nathan Viavant, In honor of Charlotte C. Snow

  • Jenny & John Stratton

  • Karen Szall

  • Steve & Suzanne Towery

  • Claire Valente

  • Gordon & Katherine Venneri, In memory of Timothy Brown

  • Charlotte Watership, In honor of CJ Martin

  • Donald & Valerie Weaver

  • Jill & Robert Zagelow

  • 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.

  • Emily Banks

  • Doug & Karen Bayne

  • Cynthia Boen

  • Chelanne Brown

  • Chelanne Brown, In memory of Sigrid Grinius

  • Emily Brown, In honor of Tim Brown

  • Cathy Carkner

  • Wayne Chabre & Jeanne McMenemy

  • Ann & Richard Counsell

  • Melissa Cummins

  • Debbie & Jay DeWitt

  • Carolyn Dietzman

  • Heidi Dobson

  • Brian Dohe, In memory of Bryan Ford

  • F. Sonja Gourley

  • Donna Johannessen, In memory of Tim Brown

  • Renee & William McMahon

  • Rhonda McNett

  • Nancy Mitchell, In memory of Tim Brown

  • Stacia Peterson, In honor of my family

  • Danielle Garbe Reser, In honor of Jennifer Northam’s birthday

  • David Schober

  • Adam & Karen Schulz

  • Jonathan Travis

  • Marilynn & Terry Westerbeck

 

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.