Annual Donor Recognition honors those whose yearly contributions strengthen scholarships, faculty, and programs at the Shepherd School of Music. Every gift plays an important role in advancing our mission and supporting the continued excellence of music education.
We are grateful to the donors recognized below for their generous support of the Shepherd School during the 2025–2026 academic year.
PLANNED GIVING DONORS
Anonymous
Roger and Mary Bollinger
John Epstein
Eugene Fong
Rebecca Hall
Arthur and Sheila Tarbox
NEW ENDOWMENT FUNDS
Rebecca Hall
SHEPHERD SOCIETY ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND DONORS
FULL TUITION SUPPORT ($50,000+)
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
ANNUAL AWARD ($15,000+)
Eugene Fong
Mel and Susie Glasscock
David and Andrea Hayes
Robert and Georgiana Ladd
Rick and Dotti Nelson
Pippa Wiley
ANNUAL PRIZE ($5,000+)
Michael and Dorothy Ables
William Arbaugh
John Bland
Mark and Frances Buechler
W Michael and Lynette Carter
Janet Clark
Lynn Coneway
James Denton
John Epstein
Norman and Jeanne Fischer
Joe Hudson
Cristle Judd
Walter and Karen Loewenstern
Steven and Emily Loh
William and Alexandra Mitch
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Michael Muna and Marcus Maroney
John and Kathy Payne
Leon and Margaret Polek
Jorge and Beatriz Rodriguez
Anne Schnoebelen
Debra Shetlar
Denmon Sigler and Peter Chok
Arthur and Sheila Tarbox
Lewis Thomas
Clark Trantham and Melinda Clark
Mary Ellen Wilson
SHEPHERD SOCIETY ANNUAL FUND DONORS
GUARANTOR ($15,000+)
Nancy Glass and John Belmont
Benson Lam and Joanne Sung
BENEFACTOR ($10,000+)
Robert Noblett
Pippa Wiley
CHAMPION ($5,000+)
Kevin and Winnie Bonebrake
Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation
Lawrence and Charlotte Dahm
Eugene Fong
Edmund and Kathryn Segner
Arthur Tarbox and Sheila Tarbox
GUARDIAN ($2,500+)
Chris Bacon and Craig Miller
Virginia Clark
Robert and Kathleen Clarke
Dickson-Allen Foundation
Larry and Karen George
David and Julie Itz
Gary and Mi Jensen
Benjamin Kamins and Janet Rarick
Albert and Elizabeth Kidd
Terry Koonce
David and Susan Lummis
Patrick and Barbara McCelvey
William and Bethany Rothwell
Ellen Simmons
Gail Viele
Geoffrey Walker and Ann Kennedy
Robert Yekovich and Michele Thompson
PATRON ($1,000+)
Robert Ames
JP Anderson and Alfredo Tijerina
Lilly and Thurmon Andress
Roy Bain
Barbara Buckner
Steven Callahan and Margaret Waisman
Robert Chanon
Nicholas Collins and Tatiana Ermakova
Carl Cunningham
Jeffrey DeBevec and Sarah Balinskas
Linnet Deily
Alfred and Lilli Verena Dettwiler
Geary and Felicia Eppley
Art and Gail Faris
Mack and Cece Fowler
David and Anne Frischkorn
Ronald and Carolyn Galfione
Jan Garverick
Catherine Gassman
John Gillette and Suzanne Thomas
Fritz and Joan Glover
John Gragg
Thomas Hall
Cordell and Ava Haymon
Ernest Honig
Ron and Sheila Hulme
Stephen and Tanya Ingels
Steven Jamail
Alexander Jones and Catherine Haines
William Joor and Rose Ann Medlin
Mark Kulstad and Marcia Citron
Charley and Boonthip Landgraf
Jim Leavens
Peter Lee
Hajin Lim and Sohyoung Park
Joel Luks
Yvonne Marcuse
Rodney and Judy Margolis
Soren and Astrid Marklund
John McLaughlin and Lisa Rich
Mary Hale McLean
Gregory Montelaro and Bradley Brown
Peter and Fan Morris
James and Vanessa Mulvey
Roberta Ness
Barry Ouellette and Victor Martinez
James and Linda Pope
Florante and Nora Quiocho
Robert Richter
Jacqueline Rosky
Doug and Cathryn Selman
Pamela Smith
Richard and Susan Stasney
Matt and Marguerite Stoner
Clark and Mary Terrell
Fiona Toth
Robert and Mary Wakefield
John and Connie Wallace
Thomas and Gerra Wilson
Margrit Young
Nicholas and Elizabeth Zdeblick
Robert Zinn
ADVOCATE ($500+)
Marc Adler and Veronika Fedirko
George and Carolyn Andrews
David and Susan Askanase
Richard and Heather Avant
Barbara Baetz
Mitzi and Tom Barker
Richard Brooks
William and Sandra Bryan
Lynne and Steve Clark
Elizabeth and Steven Crowell
Paul Egner
Ann Faget
Robert Furse
Jerold and Martha Gallagher
Steven and Mary Gangelhoff
Elizabeth Gillis
Lynn Gissel
Leonard Goldstein and Helen Wils
Kelly Gupton and Ashley Gillespie
Janice Hewitt
Robert Hilmer
Jay Hooker
Roseland Klein
Gretchen Kuhn
Marjo Lallemant
Randall and Kathleen Lake
Catherine Lien
Margaret Lincoln
Philip and Mary Lindsey
Thomas and Jessica McClelland
Terrylin Neale
Erik Nelson and Terry Brandhorst
Jennifer Overton
Jerry and Linda Paine
Robert Parke
Joe and Gloria Pryzant
Mark and Candace Rigo
Alejandro and Lynn Rosas
Philip and Elizabeth Samuels
Nicolas Shumway and Robert Mayott
Robert and Patricia Simon
Don and Estelle Singer
Kade Smith
David Elder and Melinda Snell
Richard Stabell
James Sullivan and Kara Kane
Randolph Tibbits and Richard Bebermeyer
Lynda Underwood
Susan Walker
Mark and Nancy Wozny
AMBASSADOR ($250+)
Victoria Agee
Ken and Susan Alexander
Larry Altman and Ann McCormick
German and Anne Amador
Lee and Robert Ardell
Samuel and Nabila Attia
Heather Barr
Carole Beerbower
Thomas and Barbara Blocher
Kathleen Boyd
Judith Brett
Carla Burns
Vikram Chinchankar and Jane Chesterman
Rebecca Coberly
Murry and Meryl Cohen
Jon and Elizabeth Cole
Fred Crowder
Gabriel and Joanne Cuadra
Adam and Susan Darney
Alex and Andrea Di Bagno Guidi
John Dickinson
Betsy Dunn
Paul Engle and David Bynog
Martha Fagin
Sidney Faust
John and Christie Fisher
Edwin Friedrichs and Darlene Clark
Rubena Gracia Buerger
Peggy Guitar
Dewuse Guyton
Bill and Lucila Haase
Rebecca Hall
Daan Hekma
Mark Henriksen and Kazumi Hasegawa
Ann Hightower
Devin Holum
Mu Chen Hsieh
George John
Frank and Debbie Jones
George Jones and June Ferrill
Barbara Kauffman
Todd and Karen Kenny
Mary Kinnebrew
Griffin Knodle
Katherine Kohlmeyer
Kathy Kokas
Helen Li and Richard Buday
Don and Mary Macune
Thomas and Danielle McHugh
Katherine McKinin and Don Johnson
Barbara McKittrick
Jim Meng and Min Zhou
Larry and Catherine Meyer
Antonios Mikos and Lydia Kavraki
John Miner
Glenn and Lee Newick
Richard Newlin and Keith Davis
W. and Jacquelin Ogilvie
Anne Pati
Horst and Letitia Paul
Susan Pilney
Timothy Pitts and Kathleen Winkler
Albert Pope and Kathrin Brunner
Gloria Portela
Robert Poster
Don Reiser and Gay Yellen
Frank Schageman and Justine Warburton
Jacqueline Schimmel and Tamara Fraser
Daniel Sessler
Hinda Simon
David and Elizabeth Sims
Robert Sivinski and Mary Ford
Aaron Stambler and Elaine Miller
Thomas and Joyce Standish
William Streng
Randy Tumlin
Boris Velikovich and Maryann Keith
Bradley and Linda Walker
Garrett and Sherri Walsh
James Weaver
Monica White
Doug Williams and Janice Robertson
Martin Wing
Jennifer Wittman
Lizanne Yeates
Michael Zuraw
FRIEND ($100+)
Anonymous
David and Wendy Alexander
Maureen Alsup
John and Elizabeth Anderson
Linda Anderson
Matthew and Treanor Baring
Mary Barnum
Debra and Marlon Bernal
Marie Blaine
Susan Blevins
Judith Bristol
Martha Lou Broussard
Jeremy Buckler
Bette Burkett
Laurence and Cynthia Burns
Phyllis Carney
Alejandro Chaoul and Erika De La Garza
Maria Sampen and Tim Christie
Kevin Chu and Nanding Chen
Susan Coburn
Thomas Collins
Andrew Constantinou
Ronald Cook
James Davis and Janice Buchholtz
Charles Deaton
Carol Der Garry
Randy and Peggy Dietel
Donna Donelan
Kevin and Meghan Downs
Victor Driscoll and Dorothy Burge
Edward and Judith Earle
Arlene Estle
DeAnne Ewan
James Farb
Paul and Alice Felgner
Barnet Fishbein
Sandra and Brent Flechsig
Milton and Janet Frost
Rebecca Garfein
David and Junko Garrett
Alasdair and Clara Gilchrist
Harold Gordon
Harvey Gordon
Robert Gordon and Audrey Meltzer
Richard Grandy and Janice Bordeaux
Jane Greenberg
Benjamin and Eva Gryk
Melinda Hall
Susan Harris
Scott Holden
Elise and Denzil Hollingsworth
Toshio and Yumiko Itoh
Brian and Catherine James
Melody and Erik Johnson
Samuel and Kristin Jones
Lynne and Lawrence Joseloff
Raymond and Barbara Kalmans
Paul Kirby
Judy Koehl
Daniel Kopti
Ruth Kosieracki
Richard Kummins
Robert and Florence Lait
Connie Lewis
Shen Liang
Christian Lilje
Ted and Franna Litton
Karen Lund
Elizabeth Lutz
Margot Madsen
Samuel Magill and Lucian Rinando
Pamela Marut
Mary Meighan and David Ingbar
Martin and Rebecca Merritt
John Mixon and Judith Mixon
Jeremy Moeller
Janet Moore
Robert and Helen Morgan
Marvin and Jo Mueller
Alan and Elaine Mut
Mark Niu and Bradford Thomas
David Odle
Paul and Sue Ofield
Edward and Susan Osterberg
Richard and Bette Pesikoff
Henry and Elizabeth Peterman
Diane Petrosky
Polly Lewis and Michael Pierson
Carole Brooks Platt and Charles Platt
Lisa Proctor
Marc Puppo and Patricia de Groot
Tom Randt and Kim-Kay Randt
William Renaud
Phillip and Barbara Rice
Yvonne Romero
Hyun Chang and In Ho Moon
Kamy Schiffman
Arthur and Kathleen Schmitt
Dorothea Shaddock
Saurabh Shah and Vinisha Patel
Wayne Shandera
Monique Shankle
Stuart Shapiro and Richard Bezdek
Kipling and Martha Sharpe
Jian Guang Shi and Qi Ding
Bart and Diane Sinclair
Roy and Deirdre Spann
Richard and Joan Spaw
James Talbot and Christine Garrett
Jennifer Teisinger
William Thompson and Javier Rey
Don Tobin
John Toomey
Nancy Turner
Kent Twyman and Dianne Yount
Allan Van Fleet and Ruth Goldberg
Thomas Vance
Peter Varman and Beatrice Varman
Margaret Walker
Mixon Ware
Grant Wareham
James Webb
Johnny Weinbaum
Donna Weinberg
Carolyn Wildenthal
John and Deborah Willis
Robert Wimpelberg
Naibin Wu and Anna Wu
Ken and Donna Yanowski
Byron and Amber York
Jon Young
George Zombakis and Julietta Ducote
GIFTS TO EXISTING ENDOWMENTS
Juliana Beckel and Jacob Carnow
Steven Berman
Roger and Mary Bollinger
Michael and Diane Cannon
Sarah Carroll
Frank Curtis and Melissa Skolfield
Linnet Deily
Katherine Shanks Dodd
Robert Estill
Chris Fisher
Steven Foster
Graham Gavert
Ann Goldstein
James Gunn and Joseph Hill
Russell and Diana Hawkins
A Mad Idea Foundation
Bridget Jensen
Edmund and Kathryn Segner
Gary Smith and James Murdaugh
Stephen and Martha Smith
David Whitney and Juliana Chyu
Duvall M. Williams
Elizabeth Williams
Robert Yekovich and Michele Thompson
SEAT CAMPAIGN DONORS
Anonymous
Michael and Lynette Carter
Regan Coleman
Idalyn Cyprus and Mark Audas
Shelly Cyprus
John and Eliza Duncan
Andrea and David Engle
Eugene Fong
Ronald Franklin
Tomiko Fukuda
Catherine Gassman
Ann Goldstein
Benjamin Gryk
Susan Hirtz
Pierre and Julia Jalbert
Mary Kinnebrew
John Klug and Carol Akers Klug
Jonathan and Patricia Kraft
Benson Lam and Joanne Sung
John and Robin Littman
Matthew and Kristen Loden
Martiel and Janet Luther
Lyndsi Maus
Michael Muna and Marcus Maroney
Scott Powell
William and Bethany Rothwell
Marie Speziale
Fred Tuomi and Erin Hannigan
Anna Unterberger
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP FRIENDS
Amanda and Gregory Dykhouse
Margaret Lockett
Eugene and Letitia Miller
Edward and Deborah Palkot
Suellen Schoepf
William and Martalisa Tsai
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC GIFTS
Anonymous
Samuel Bivens
Thadd and Terri Bowers
Marlon and Debra Bernal
Corbin Dill
Amy Harr
David and Julie Itz
Mary Kinnebrew
Richard Brooks
Hilary Purrington
Matthew Muehl-Miller and Cara Cheung
Michael Pierson and Polly Lewis
Martha and Kipling Sharpe
William Tsai and Martalisa Tsai
GIFTS IN KIND
Robert Atherholt and Melissa Suhr
Susan Hirtz
Nanci Malin-Peck
Ana Maria Martinez
Alex Munger
Judith Thomas
Helen Toombs
50TH GALA DONORS
Theodore and Rose Adams
Linda Anderson
Frances Anderson
Thurmon and Lilly Andress
Dean Baxtresser
John Bland
Chris and Kristy Bradshaw
Dorothy Brockman
Anne and Albert Chao
Virginia Clark
Robert and Kathleen Clarke
James and Molly Crownover
Danny and Isabel David
Anne Duncan
John and Eliza Duncan
Nancy Dunlap
Chris Fisher
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Ronald and Carolyn Galfione
Mel and Susie Glasscock
Matt Henneman
Bruce and Caroline Hurley
Dunham and Jill Jewett
Jim Jordan and Shawn Stephens
Kathryn Ketelsen
Albert and Elizabeth Kidd
Thomas Killian and Leigh Frillici-Killian
Robert and Rachel Kimbro
Edward and Deborah Koehler
Paul and Carolyn Landen
Lynn Lednicky
Frank and Cindy Liu
Matthew and Kristen Loden
David and Sarah Mansouri
Mary Lynn Marks
John McLaughlin and Lisa Rich
David Mincberg and Lainie Gordon
William and Sara Morgan
W. and Jacquelin Ogilvie
Tony and Cynthia Petrello
Russ Pitman
Chris and Heather Powers
Philip and Elizabeth Samuels
Doug and Cathryn Selman
Debra Shetlar
Clark Trantham and Melinda Clark
Fredric and Betsy Weber
Benjamin Westbrook
Robert Yekovich and Michele Thompson
GIFTS TO SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Anonymous
A. Travis and Vivien Addison
Michael Accinno
German and Anne Amador
German and Anne Amador
Alan Austin
Michael and Denise Benson
Marlon and Debra Bernal
Samuel Bivens
John Bland
Thomas and Barbara Blocher
Benjamin Brady and Colleen Brannen
David Bruno and Leanne Bruno
Mark and Frances Buechler
Rachel Carnahan
W Michael and Lynette Carter
Emily Chesnic
Jon and Elizabeth Cole
Ralph and Catherine Compton
Manuel Gonzalez and Maria Corcuera
Steven and Elizabeth Crowell
Shelly Cyprus
Carol A. Der Garry
Meghan Downs
Marco DuBose and Christina Carroll
John and Eliza Duncan
Marianne Ehrlich
Andy Einhorn
Chris Fisher
John and Christie Fisher
Eugene Fong
Nicholas and Lauren Frankel
Zanna Fredland
Sonja and Karl Fulbright
Hermine Gagne
Gabriel Galley
Karen and Larry George
Nancy Giles
Fritz and Joan Glover
Martin Gremm and Esther Sung
Steven M. Gutheinz
Amy Harr
Susan Harris
Nolan Hennessey and Danielle Romano
Jason Hibbard and Erin Bennett
Robert Hilmer
Matthew Hrdlicka
Richard Hunt and Angelique Ortiz-Hunt
David Im and Allison Hong-Im
David and Julie Itz
Peter and Susan Jarvis
Pippa Jarvis-Flores and Ernest Flores
Dunham and Jill Jewett
Narae Kim
Jonathan and Patricia Kraft
Mark Kulstad & Marcia Citron
Lynn Lednicky
Scott Lee
Connie Lewis
David and Susan Lummis
Janet Luther
Martiel Luther
Elizabeth Lutz
Michael Mason and Penelope Meitz
Glenn McCarthy and Denise Chapman
John and Andrea Meier
Ann Miller
Jeremy Moeller
Betty Moore
James and Vanessa Mulvey
Monica Music
Paula Page
Robert Poster
Scott Powell
Chris and Heather Powers
Robert Raphael
Sara and Trey Rice
Genevieve Robinson
Lynn and Alejandro Rosas
Lauren Ross
Katherine Ryan
Brian and Mandie Sadovsky
Anne Schnoebelen
Katie Sejba
Dorothea Shaddock
Martha and Kipling Sharpe
Spencer Simpson
Bart and Diane Sinclair
Andrew Singletary
Geoff and Minou Spradley
Richard and Susan Stasney
Matt and Marguerite Stoner
David and Teresa Story
Szuyu Su
Boon Tan and Faith Lee
Mary Thornton
Robert and Phoebe Tudor
Craig and Andrea Vogelsang
Margaret Waisman and Steven Callahan
Danielle Ward-Griffin
Alexandra Wax
Michael Webster and Leone Buyse
Emily Wells
Michael and Marianne White
Pippa Wiley
Earline Willcott
Martin Wing
Richard and Johanna Wolfe
Susy Yim
Scott and Maggie Zentner
Margaret Ann Zentner