Thank you!
November 13, 2026
Thank you!

The Community Music Center gratefully thanks our donors and volunteers for helping us create harmony in our community!

Listed here are gifts to the Annual Fund  of $35 or more from November 2025 through October 2026.

To make a contribution to our current fund drive use the "donate" button on this page.

Baton Circle Platinum ($10,000+)

Office of City Councilor Jamie Dunphy

Ned Holbrook - with employee match via

American Online Giving Fund / Benevity.com

Dorothea Lensch Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

Shirly Sonk (in-kind)

Starr Thomas Family Foundation - via Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Judith Wyss

 

Baton Circle Gold ($5,000+)

Anonymous

Maurine & Paul Canarsky

Patricia L Shannon

 

Baton Circle Silver ($1,960+)

Anonymous - via DAFgiving360

Scott Corbett & Joyce Berney Charitable Gift Fund

Gary & Sahni Denton - in memory of Charles Farmer

Gregory & Maggie Englund - to the Shirley Englund Fund for Music Scholarships

Michael Kuhn

 

Maestro ($1,000+)

Anonymous (3)

Anonymous - via ImpactAssets Inc.

Marley Brown Lumber Service

Darryl Conser

John Englund - to the Oregon Community Foundation Shirley Englund Music

Scholarships Fund

Hillarie Miller

The Monday Musical Club

Linda & Stan Niman

Portland Parks Foundation - in honor of Katherine Schroeder, PGE Parks Champion Awardee for 2026

Katherine Schroeder & Tom Gustafson

Julie Lou Tripp - via DAFgiving360 in memory of Mary Margaret Dundore

 

Virtuoso ($500+)

Michael & Deborah Aiona - via Fidelity Charitable

Anonymous (2)

Catherine Battilega

Robert Beall

Susan Brickey

Marlene Burns

Community Music Workshop

John Dabritz - in honor of Tracey Edson & Anna Briscoe

Lourdene Haley DiFalco

Jerry & Lisa Eckstein - in memory of David Spero Newman

George Walter Feldman

Douglas Fix

Michael & Mary Ruth Hanna Familiy Giving Fund - in memory of Margot Parlette, "beloved violin teacher", via National Philanthropic Trust

Marvin & Penny Harrison

Linda & Richard Jenkins

David & Virginia Kingsbury Donor Fund

The Knight Family Fund - via Vanguard Charitable

Susan Koe - via Fidelity Charitable

Susan Kuhn

Carol LaBrie

Ho Wai Lo

Joseph & Sharon Rakoski - in memory of Rachel Lambert

Carol Ratzlaf, NCTM - in memory of Stevie McDougal

Barbara Rhyne

Anna Sasaki

Laura Schlafly Charitable Fund

Schuback Violin Shop Inc

Judy Seubert

Martin Smilkstein

Kaarin M. Smith - in memory of Anthony Dyer

David Spencer & Applied Materials Foundation - via the Blackbaud Giving Fund

Carl Von Rohr


Rhapsody ($250+)

Carole Alexander

Cynthia Ann Canfield

Anonymous

Anonymous - in memory of Don Lehman, "beloved piano teacher"

Linda Besant

Rachel Blumberg - in memory of Naomi Blumberg

Phillip Brandt

Lauren Brown

Stuart Brown

Cynthia Cristofani

Naomi & Peter Hand - via DAFgiving360

Kit Able Hawkins - in memory of Richard E. & Katherine F. Able, "my parents, who gave me the gift of the CMC when I was a little girl."

Cofsky Hopkins Charitable Fund

Daniel Hoyt

Susan C. Karant-Nunn - in honor of Carol Ratzlaf

Felicia Lauritsen - to the Anthony Earl Dyer Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

Fred Lauritsen - in memory of Catherine Lauritsen

Colleen O'Brien

Rose City Singers

Mary Rose

David Simon & June Reznikoff - in memory of Grey Wolfe

David Studhalter

Jonathan Tamez & Keith Walters

Welsh Family Fund - via Fidelity Charitable

Melinda Wilde

Lawrence Zivin

David Jonathan Zook


Prelude ($100+)

John & Tanja Alger - in honor of Nicholas Wheeler

Dan Anderson & Joy Strand

Anonymous (3)

Anonymous - via Fidelity Charitable

Anonymous - via PayPal Giving Fund

Carlos and Nicolas Avendaño

Viktors Berstis

Jerry Bobbe

Jann Brown

Cheryl Campbell

Chauncey Canfield

Carrie Gotkowitz - via DAFgiving360

Jody Coale

Cooper Family Foundation - via Fidelity Charitable

Peter Cowal

Sarah Dinger

Gregory duFour

Anne Dujmovic

Roy & Marion Elicker

Aron Faegre

Page Frisch

Suzanne Gaye

Barbara Getty - in memory of Vera M. Miller

"mother and violinist"

Michael & Patricia Greenfield

Tom & Wendy Hart

Susan Hathaway-Marxer & Larry Marxer - in memory of Lisa Thomas Turpel

Hattner/Leiser Giving Fund - via Fidelity Charitable

David Hattner & Kristie Leiser

Bill Higham

Dennis Hopkins & Claire Cofsky

Laura Hunt

Penny Hunt - in honor of Joe & Patti Luckeroth

Helen Jaskoski & Daniel A. Brown

Dennis Johnson

Meg Larson

Kevin & Milyn Lefohn

Mary L Vander Linden

Janet Loewen

David M. Luboff

Denise Luckeroth

Patricia Luckeroth - in honor of her sister and brother-in-law

Jerome L. Magill

Brian McDonald

Norberto & Elyse Medina

Elizabeth Menashe

Chau Phan Mende

Merit Contractor Inc.

Kirk Miller

Carol Morgan

William & Sandra Ofstad

Robert Oringdulph

Carole Orloff

Judith Potts

Glendon Pullen & Diane Rynerson

Elizabeth Ramsey & Donald Ruff

Jeremy Sarant

James Sjulin

Arlette Slachmuylder

Olivia Smith

Jack Spadaro - in memory of Joel Nurmi

JV Starck Violins

Mary Lane Stevens Charitable Fund

Stephen Stolzberg

Vickie Nissen Stringfield

Sid & Ann Stuller - in Memory of Patricia Mittelstadt and Wilma Sheridan

Carole Turcotte

Richard Varan & Nina Lee

Nancy P. Walsh - in memory of Charles Farmer

Sara K. Watts

Hope Whitney

Faith M. Winegarden

Jane Benners Winfield

Janet Wong & Steven Hay

Nancy Yang

Patricia A. Zagelow

 

Member ($35+)

Madeline Abalos

Maria & Agoston Agoston

Rosalie Ajinga

Anonymous (6)

Anonymous - via Give Lively Foundation

Patricia Azzone - in honor of George Cheshire

Ed Birnbaum

Julian Carroll

Kathleen Clarkson

Robin Cook

Michelle Druce

Bryan Eichhorn

Mary Frazel

Jere Grimm

Fred & Amelia Hard

Rachel Henrichs, Geffen Mesher Employee Giving Campaign - via United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

Lynda Hess

Gary L. Hewitt

Jonathan Kaylor

David Keller

C. Scott Kennedy

Kroger Stores - via Fred Meyer Frequent Shopper Rewards Program

Brenda Liu - in memory of Margot Parlette & Anthony Dyer

Lorraine Luckeroth

Anne E. McLaughlin - via Give Lively Foundation

Multnomah County Employee Giving Campaign - via United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

Steve O'Neill

Sara Packer

Paige Sipes-Metzler

David C. Parker - via DAFgiving360

Audrey Perino

Linda Robinson

Michael Scott

Michael Sestric & Miriam Levitt

Monica & J.P. Setziol-Phillips

Carson Swope - in honor of Uncle T.

Lisa Van Clock

Karen Wutzke


Significant in-kind support

Portland Internet Works, David Kerr Violin Shop, and Steve Banchero

 

If we have made an error in this list, please accept our apologies, and kindly let us know how we can correct it.


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