Donors

We express our heartfelt thanks to each and every donor, without whom this essential and highly successful work for gifted young artists in the Pacific Northwest would not be possible.

The Academy is the only pre-college classical music Academy in the Pacific Northwest that operates at this high level - with intensive and comprehensive performance & study programs for young musicians who need this caliber of preparation to successfully enter the finest music colleges and conservatories in the country - where competition is fierce from candidates all over the world.

For 11 years - every Academy graduate has had multiple successful auditions. Our graduates received substantial scholarships from their school and teacher of choice.

Major individual donors to date:
Co-founders: Dorothy Klotzman, Jim Paul, Dee Wells
Founding Board members: Ron Sonntag and Dr. Linda Sandell
Friends: Renee Engel, AP & Mary Van Meter, Margaret Elwood

Foundations, Corporations, Businesses, & Matching Funds
Bold entries are 2007-2008 donors
4Culture (pending 2008)
 Amateur Chamber Music Players (ACMP, NY: Clinton B. Ford Bequest)
AXA Corporation (William E. Small for Kent Coleman Scholarship)
Bank of America Gift Foundation - MF (Gifford Thomas)
Bank of America, Private Bank (Paul M. Anderson Trust)
Jack & Becky Benaroya Foundation
Bischofberger Violins, Ltd
Boeing
Rafael Carrabba Violins, Inc.
Citrix Systems ( Min-Chi Earl)
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle (The Merle & Nadine Griff Mack Fund)
Leslie Fund, Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
Olympic Insurance Co.
Prudential Foundation (Merle P. Griff)
Seattle Foundation (AP & Mary Van Meter Trust)
George Stern & Sara Stern Foundation (Jackie Schmidt)
Summit Family Foundation Trust
The Peach Foundation (2008) $17,000
 United Way (Sno. Co. PUD: Margaret Elwood)
 U.S. Bancorp
Vehicle Donation Processing Center (VDPC) - vehicle donors

Named Scholarships
Dorothy Klotzman Composition Scholarship (from Noah Creshevsky)
Dorothy Klotzman Fund (from Abe Podolak)
George Fiore Piano Scholarship
Hans Sonntag Memorial Scholarship
 Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth
Kent Coleman Violin Scholarship - est. June 2007 - See list below
Milton & Virginia Katims Scholarship
Puget Sound Steinway Society
Sherry Kloss Violin Scholarship
Willard Schultz Piano Scholarship

Ben's Piano Fund - 2008
Prosser Piano & Organ, Shoreline: Lee Sumner
Prosser Piano & Organ. Kerry Prosser, President
Jim Paul & Dee Wells
Dorothy Klotzman
Corinne Waters
Jason See & Valerie Au
Dr. Linda Sandell
Wei Liu & Zhanbing Wu
Margaret Elwood
Betty-Carol Sellen
Craig Sheppard
David H. Albert

In-Kind Donations
Seattle Symphony & Soundbridge
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Prosser Piano & Organ
Sherman Clay, Seattle
 Kennelly Keys Music
Kevin Wallace, Wallace Properties
Cardwell Companies
MC Lile, Inc.
PKP Associates
Prudential Printing
Steinway Society of Puget Sound
Chopin Society (PNW)
Performing Arts Center - Eastside (PACE)
Kirkland Performing Arts Center
Meydenbauer Performing Arts Center
Olympic Insurance Agency
Bellevue Christian Church
Mercer Island Congregational Church
Willlard Schultz
Jan Coleman
Simon James
George Fiore
Randolph Hokanson

Master Classes
Karen Iglitzin, Ingrid Matthews, Marjorie Kransberg Talvi, Byron Schenkman, The Eroica Trio, Sherry Kloss, Paul Barnes, Regina Yeh, Joshua Roman, David Lewis, James Ehnes

Equipment Donations
See Prosser Piano & Organ (above - Ben's Piano)
Doug Passey family - New Spinet piano & bench
Lucy Buhler, Steinway concert piano bench
Merle P. Griff - HP Multi-purpose copy/print/fax machine
Paul/Wells - Office Dell PC/printers/scanner/filing cabinets/Dell laptop, office supplies, 6 Casio Keyboards, Audio Equipment.

Library Donations
Robert E. Burke - Memorial Audio-Visual Collection
Randolph & Dorothy Hokanson Music Books
Milton & Virginia Katims Private Collection
James O'Connor Memorial Piano Music Library
Patsy Rogers - Orchestral Scores
Dr. Eric Offenbacher - Opera Videos
Hans Sonntag - Music Books Library
Keith Wittmeyer - Chamber, Piano, & Vocal music
Dorothy Klotzman - Scores, books, CDs
Lois Hartzell - lifetime vocal library including opera scores
Ruth Gustafson - Organ & Sonata music

Chamber Orchestra Donors
Larry DeSoto, Bill & Peggy Jo Eaton, Alan & Sanja Futterman, Anne Futterman, Joseph Gelzer, Lillian Sugahara Jesse, Harold Johanson, Craig & Shanon Magnusson, Gregory & Susan Woodside Babinski, Gustav Anders Jansson, Charles & Carol LaNasa, Susan M. Peterson, The Rossano Family; Mike & Beatrice Tseng, Darcelle Wacker, Paul Zaleski & Annika Lai-Chun Zaleski.

General Fund, In Memory, Keys Club, Annual, Board, & Scholarship Donors
A-B Anonymous (8), George H. Allison, M.D., Ed Ash, Don & Jo Bates, Ethel Jo Bates, Clarence Balee, Jr., Baird & Margaret Barderson, Jim and Jane Beale, Jeffrey & Linda Beattie, Jeffrey & Donna Bender, Dr Bernard & Edith Berg, Peter & Mary Lou Block, Ed & Nancy Birdwell,
Guy & Jennifer Bowman, Thelma Broeker, Lucy Buhler, Clifford Burkey

C-D John & Chris Cady, Stan & Mary Warren Case, John Carollo, Rosalie M. Cheshire, Kay Clayton, Melody Clemans, Richard & Lauren Cole, Walt & Fran Cole, Noah Creshevsky, Hiro Imamura David.,
Mr & Mrs James Dijulio

E-F Richard & Min-Chi Earl, Carol Elwell, Margaret Elwood, Renee Engel, Martha M. Erickson, Dr. Marc & Maria Erlitz, Stanley & Libby Erlitz, Phillip & Kathleen Farrar, Anne Futterman, Alan & Sanja Futterman

G Kiran & MakhAavi Gadepalli, Isabel Gallagher, Lorenz & Ming Tsu Gamma, Dr. Ray H. Gavin, Larry & Bonnie Getz, Marie Giuriceo,
Victoria Glen, Michaela Gold, Lucille Field-Goodman, Merle P. Griff, Donald Grubb & Mary Shwetz, Teresa Gu, Edythe M. Gray

H Pam Harold, Rheda Helman, Frances A. Hess, Jim Hirschfield, Randolph Hokanson, Steve & Virginia Huang

J-K Gustav Jansson & Rita Wong, Sylvia Jennings, Jack & Patricia Jensen, Gyu Sang & Donghi Lee Jeong, Youngtao You & Wendy Jia, Dave & Marlene Johnson, Steven Johnson & Kristin Storey, Samuel & Kristin Jones, Kirk & Carol Scott-Kassner, Milton & Virginia Katims, Arthur C. Katims, Dorothy Klotzman, Figaro Klotzman, Robert & Kyung Koo, Albert (Pao-Ding) Gu, Maria Koshkina & Konstantin Aluf,
Peter & Gesele Krippner, Wayne & Virginia Kurlinski

L-M John & Mary Lacher, Charles & Carolyn LaNasa, Leslie Larkin, Donna Leavitt, Patricia Lein, Li Chen Lin & Chen Ju Wu (Lin), Paul & Julie Lippert, Wm. & Jeanne Macauley, Kent & Deborah McLaren,
Vivian McRae, Dr. S. Frank & Michiko Miyamoto, Gerald & Ying Mitchell, Theresa Moore, George & Linda Murray

N-P Sylvia Nance, Gary & Deborah Nondorf, Tomoki & Naoko Noguchi,
Shigeki & Iyoko Okano, Olympic Insurance Agcy (M. Clemans). Rosalyn Paul, Jim Paul, Robert C. Payne, Sarah Pearl-Sacks, Jim & Julie Pielemeier, Deborah Pittman, John & Pamela Pizzichemi, Abe Podolak (PKP Assoc.), David Pocock, Jim & Donna Potts, Ed & Anne Praczukowski

R-S Patsy Ridge,Victoria & Alan Robbe, Patsy Rogers, Dr. Linda Sandell, Willard Schultz, Gerard & Jody Schwarz, David Schwartz, Betty-Carol Sellen, Arthur & Nancie Linn Shaw, June L. (& Joe) Simon, William Slapin, Ron Sonntag, Ron Sonntag Honoring John Rosen, Esq., Oscar Spidahl

T K & M Takahashi, Lori Takahashi, Stephen & Clara Tan, Al & Sylvia Taub, Craig Taub, Anne Taylor, Russell Taylor, Ruth Thaler, Gifford Thomas (& MF BofA), Barbara Thompson (in memory), Mary Toy

V-W AP & Mary Van Meter, Anthony Waters, Corinne Waters, Claudia Welch, Dee Wells, Wm. Owen & Maile Williams, Robert Winsor & Valerie Yockey, Steven & Gail Wish, Keith & Marilyn Wittmeyer, Charles Wolfe, Ilsa Klotzman Wolfe, John & Lori Takahashi Wolfe

X-Z Nancy Zylstra

Kent Coleman Violin Scholarship - 2007 (In Memory)
John H. & Lorene Shaffer, Bettie J. Wagler, Wm.& Sheila Mclain, Howard & Julie Teeter, Rees & Cora Thayer Dilger, Mrs. John F. Hayes, Merle & Patricia Starr, Jane Sawyer, Mr.s J. L. Perkins, Zahn Lukens, Allison & Eric Hruschka, Clark R. Bevan, Everett & Karen Thomas, George & Lesley Moffat, Marie J. Hedrick, Martha & Richard Hamilton, Paul & Chelsey Weber, Fee Insurance Co., Virginia H. Rayl, Paul & Laurina Teske, Gene Hofen, Paul W. Dillon, Martha J. Fee, Mary & Andy Miller, Jim Paul, Dee Wells, Dorothy Klotzman, Willard Schultz, 1st National Bank of Hutchinson, KS (Jeanette Hoffman), Jack s. Rothwell, Jr., Alan R. Sleeper, Charlotte E. Galler, Bob & Lou Peel, Dr. Louis E. & Betty Mogel, David & Cathy Rayl, Wayne & Polly Lowe, Dale & Jane Dronberger, Doug & Jane Bae, Kevin & Nancy Mullen, William E. & Kathryn M. Small (& AXA MF donation), Mrs. E. E. Frizell, Nancy T. Shears, Nathalee Smith, Craig & Tami Rife, George & Sally Judd, John & Jane Lee

Volunteers
Accompaniment/Collaboration: Hiro Imamura David, Harumi Flesher, Sachi Hirakouji, Jim Paul, Charlotte Dike
Admin. Dee Wells, Corinne Waters, Lori Takahashi Wolfe, Graz Palumbo Perry
Bookkeeping & Tax Preparation (QuickBooks): Mary Van Meter
Class/Rehearsal/Recital/Saturday Support: faculty, parents, students, especially Kevin Watson & Hilah Selleck
Computer/CD/Photo Support: AP Van Meter, Lori Takahashi Wolfe, Eriko Rossano, Brad Hawkins, Stephen Creswell
Development: Jim Paul, Dee Wells, Academy Board
ISP Support: AMN = Notableweb.net; ACO = Sendexnet.com.
Jurors: Alan Futterman, Dorothy Klotzman, Jim Paul, Willard Schultz, Nancie Linn Shaw, Daniela Landolfi
Legal: Charles R. Wolfe
Music Librarian: Carla Hall
Marketing: Dee Wells, Malya Muth
Printed Programs: Dee Wells, Firouzeh Nourzad, Lori Takahashi Wolff, Alan Futterman
Recordings: Brad Hawkins, Brianna Atwell, Stephen Creswell
Photography: Larry Getz, faculty, parents, students
Score Transcription: Brianna Atwell
 Webmaster: Paul S. Bishop

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