Annual Donor Recognition honors those whose yearly contributions strengthen the Shepherd School's scholarships, faculty, and programs. Each gift plays a vital role in advancing our mission and ensuring the continued excellence of music education.
Thank you to the donors listed below who contributed to the Shepherd Society during the 2024-2025 academic year.
The list of donors below reflects the 2024-2025 giving program and does not reflect the current Annual Giving and Annual Scholarship Programs.
Full-Tuition Scholarship | $30,000
David and Andrea Hayes
Stephen and Kristine Wallace
Grant | $10,000
Janet Clark
Susanne and Melbern Glasscock
Martiel Luther
Rick and Dotti Nelson
Lewis Thomas III
Award | $5,000
Michael and Dorothy Ables
John Bland
Stephen Chun
Melinda Clark and Clark Trantham
Lynn Coneway
James Denton and Ya-Chieh Wang
John Jr. and Eliza Duncan
John Epstein
Norman Fischer Jeanne Kierman Fischer
John and Alexandra Fischer
Eugene Fong
Andrew and Cheryl Fossler
Catherine Haines and Alexander Jones
Cristle Judd
Kristen and Matthew Loden
Walter Land Karen Loewenstern
William and Alexandra Mitch
Michael Muna and Marcus Maroney
John Paand Kathy Payne
Jorge Rodriguez and Ana Nino-Rodriguez
Anne Schnoebelen
Debra Shetlar
Jennifer Sigler and Peter Chok
You Zhao and Xianqiao Chen
Prize | $2,500
Frances Anderson
Christopher Bacon and Craig Miller
Virginia Clark
Lawrence and Charlotte Dahm
Karen and Larry George
David and Julie Itz
Jill and Dunham Jewett
Benjamin Kamins and Janet Rarick
Paul Kantor and Virginia Weckstrom Kantor
Albert and Elizabeth Kidd
Cho-Liang Lin and Deborah Lin
Deedee McMurtry
William and Bethany Rothwell
Ellen Simmons
Geoffrey Walker and Ann Kennedy
Benefactor | $1,000
Robert Ames
JP Anderson and Alfredo Tijerina
Astrid Soren Marklund
Emily Attwell
Edward Barnett
Barbara Buckner
Elizabeth Buck
Steven Callahan and Margaret Waisman
Robert Chanon
Jeffrey DeBevec and Sarah Balinskas
Alfred Dettwiler and Lilli Verena Dettwiler
Joe and Susie Dilg
Paul Egner
Estelle and Don Singer
Art and Gail Faris
Jan Garverick
John and Suzannne Thomas
Nancy Glass and John Belmont
Frederic L "Fritz" Glover and Joan Baird Glover
Arthur and Shelley Gottschalk
John Gragg Jr.
Cordell and Ava Haymon
Ernest Honig Jr.
Stephen and Tanya Ingels
Jeremy Fain
W. Joor III and Rose Ann Medlin
Mark Kulstad and Marcia Citron
David and Sarah Mansouri
John McLaughlin and Lisa Rich
Gregory Montelaro
Peter and Fan Morris
James and Vanessa Mulvey
Roberta Ness
Sohyoung Park and Hajin Lim
Chris and Heather Powers
Richard and Kathryn Rabinow
Robert Richter Jr.
Jacqueline Rosky
Philip and Elizabeth Samuels
Bob Schlanger
Richard and Susan Stasney
Matt and Marguerite Stoner
Robert and Mary Wakefield
Cyvia Wolff
Robert Zinn
Patron | $500
German and Anne Amador
Rick Ankrom
Roy Bain
Mitzi and Tom Barker
John and Kathy Barnhill
Kevin and Winnie Bonebrake
Lee and Rebecca Bryant
William and Sandra Bryan
Lynne and Steve Clark
Rebecca and Aaron Clark
Nancy and Barrett Davis
Nancy Dunlap
Betsy Dunn
Ann Faget
Carolyn and Ronald Galfione
Jerold and Martha Gallagher
Catherine Gassman
Lynn Gissel
Terry Glaser
Thomas Hall
Esther Hall
Janice Hewitt
Robert Hilmer
Jay Hooker
Kara Kane and James Sullivan
Jim Leavens
Lynn Lednicky
Philip and Mary Lindsey
Steven and Emily Loh
Elizabeth Lutz
Nicolo Messana
Eileen and John Moody
Erik Nelson and Terry Brandhorst
Barry Ouellette and Victor Martinez
Jennifer Overton
Robert Parke Jr.
Robert Patten and E. Jenks
Joe and Gloria Pryzant
Maura Puerto
Nora and Florante Quiocho
Donald Responte
Mark Schumann and Leann Schumann
John Stout and Ann Stout
Fiona Toth
Lynda Underwood
Susan Walker
Mark and Nancy Wozny
Ambassador | $250
Marc Adler and Veronika Fedirko
Forrest and Victoria Agee
Larry Altman and Ann McCormick
David Aand Susan Askanase
Heather Barr
Carole Beerbower
Erin and Jason Hibbard
Kathleen Boyd
Judith Brett
Richard Brooks
Vikram and Jane Chesterman
Meryl and Murry Cohen
Gabriel and Joanne Cuadra
Robert Dand Marilyn Dorries
Ramsay Elder
Richard Evans
Martha Fagin
Sidney Faust
June Ferrill and George Jones
Marina Filchakova
Terry and Shifra Gardner
Bill and Lucila Haase
Bryan and Sabrina Hancock
Eric Heaton
Mark and Ragna Henrichs
Ann Hightower
Roger Hochman
Devin Holum
Dennis Hutchison
R.J. and Barbara Kauffman
Richard Kendall and Linda Richards
Alexandra Kieffer and Andrew Kraebel
Katherine Kohlmeyer
David Land Kay Lasater
Linda Lesser
Samuel Magill and Lucian Rinando
Thomas McHugh and Danielle Edmonds
Barbara McKittrick
John Meltzer
Larry and Catherine Meyer
Joan Molinaro and Tom Hatcher
Betty Moore
Richard Newlin and Keith Davis
Annie Pati
Oliver and Beverly Pennington
Gloria Portela
Robert and Amy Poster
Lynn and Alejandro Rosas
David Ross
Sigsby and Mary Rusk
Daniel Schafer and Melissa Rose
Suellen Schoepf
Daniel Sessler
Hinda Simon
Thomas Sand Joyce Standish
William Streng
Kris and Timothy Thomas
Randy Tumlin
Sherri and Garrett Walsh
Doug Williams and Janice Robertson
Helen Wils and Leonard Goldstein
Shari and Gary Winston
Jennifer Wittman
Friend | $100
David and Wendy Alexander
Linda Anderson
John and Elizabeth Anderson
Robert and Ann Arnett
Matthew and Treanor Baring
Sue Barnum
Gary Barton
Damian Blattler
Susan Blevins
Emanuel Borok
Allen Breard
Dorothy Burge and Mr. Victor Driscoll Jr.
Allan Van Fleet and Ms. Ruth Goldberg
Phyllis Carney
Alejandro Chaoul and Erika De La Garza
Gilbert Cohen
Adam and Susan Darney
John DeMoss
Kat Denton
Carol Der Garry
Alex Di Bagno Guidi and Andrea Di Bagno Guidi
W. Dietel and Peggy Dietel
Donna Donelan
Arlene Estle
Junko and David Garrett
Harvey Gordon
Jane Greenberg
Darrell and Diana Hancock
Susan Harris
Scott Holden
Elise Glattier-Hollingsworth and Denzil Hollingsworth
Laura and Paul Hornung
Kevin Hwading Chu and Nanding Chen
Randy and Nancy Jirtle
Maurice Kamins Jr. and Helaine Weinstein
Lawrence and Joan Katz
Linda Katz
Maryann Keith and Boris Velikovich
Daniel King and Mary Benedetto
Mary Kinnebrew
Dale Klitzke
Ruth Kosieracki
Richard Kummins
Ingalill Leon
Connie Lewis
Shen Liang
Karen Lund
Don Macune and Mary Julia Arnette Macune
Jerry and Mitzi Mak
Judith and Jeffrey Myers
Martin and Rebecca Merritt
Judith and John Mixon Jr.
Janet Moore
Alan Mut and Elaine Mut
Claire Nelson and Edwin Nelson IV
Mark Niu and Bradford Thomas
Edward and Deborah Palkot
John Parker and Aloysia Friedmann
Timothy Pitts and Kathleen Winkler
James and Linda Pope
Marilyn Roark
Anne and J. Robertson
Jane Root
Maria Sampen and Tim Christie
Martha and Kipling Sharpe
Jian Guang Shi and Qi Ding
David and Elizabeth Sims
Kade Smith
Richard and Joan Spaw
Romina Sumpter
James Talbot and Christine Garrett
Don Tobin
Nancy Turner
Thomas Vance
John and Connie Wallace
Mixon Ware
Johnny Weinbaum
Donna and Louis Weinberg
Lora Wildenthal and Peter Caldwell
Robert Wimpelberg
Amber and Byron York Jr.
Jon Young
Arleen Znosko