We gratefully acknowledge our generous donors, whose annual support enables us to build community through the artistic and educational programs of Oakland Symphony, Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Oakland Symphony Chorus. The following list reflects gifts made to the annual fund or elevated events recorded since May 1, 2023.
† indicates deceased
MUSIC DIRECTORS CIRCLE
Generous donors of
one million or more
over their history with
Oakland Symphony.
Bonnie † and James Bell
Berniece and Pat † Patterson
LIFETIME MEMBERS
Generous donors of
$100,000 or more
over their history with
Oakland Symphony.
Anonymous (2)
Bonnie † and James Bell
Joanne Casey
Wendy Breuer and Charles Crane
Bette and Robert Epstein
Katherine and Lance Gyorfi
James Hasler
Karen Ivy and James Ringland
Robert Kidd and Joan Story
Jack Klingelhofer
Karen and Steve Nicholls
Berniece and Pat Patterson
Beryl Crumpton Potter and James Potter
Barbara and Joel Richmon
Jill and Wesley Smith
Susan and Paul Sugarman
Jennifer and Paul Vetter
Donna Williams
$20,000 +
Anonymous (3)
Karen E. Austin
James Bell
Susan Chan
Bette and Robert Epstein
Katherine and Lance Gyorfi
James Hasler
Frederick J. Isaac
Berniece and Pat Patterson
Beryl Crumpton Potter and James Potter
Barbara and Joel Richmon
Susan and Paul Sugarman
Jennifer and Paul Vetter
Donna Williams
$10,000-$19,999
Joanne Casey
Terrence Chan and Edward Sell
Wendy Breuer and Charles Crane
David Graber †
Howard and Pamela Hatayama
Jack Klingelhofer
Denise and Don Rigler
Karen Ivy and James Ringland
Robert Kidd and Joan Story
Helen Sheaff
Sequoia Trust
$7,500-$9,999
Paul Garrison
Marianne Robison
$5,000-$7,499
Anne Cademenos
Georgine Chokatos
Kathryn and Christopher Dann
Margaret Fisher
Earl and Bonnie Hamlin
Jon and Connie Hartung
Margaret Hegg
Joan Gabriella Heinsheimer
Carol Henri
Narinder Singh and Supreet Kaur
Helena Meyer-Knapp and Robert Knapp
Rosanna Lerma
David Lichtenstein
Mark and Lisa Braver-Moss
Karen and Steve Nicholls
Roy and Melinda Samuelson
Jill and Wesley Smith
E. Margaret and Steve Warton
$2,500-$4,999
Richard and Carlene Anderson
John Barrett
Morris Chubb
Joseph Frank
Marianne Friedman
Harry Howe
Margaret and Chenming Hu
Marilyn Kecso
Stu and Jeanne Korn
Annis and Nicholas Kukulan
Alison Miller
Christine Orr
Mary Ann and Don Parachini
Leslie Rogers
Lisa Kay Ruhland
Jean Shuler
Monique Stevenson
Jerry Vurek-Martyn
Richard West
$1,000-$2,499
Anonymous
Diane Appel and Daniel Cotton
Dan Ashley
Benjamin Baab
Michael Barrett
Cynthia and David Blumgart
Roberta Brokaw
Helen Cake
Rosemary Chang
Patrice Cochran
Christopher Curtis
Joseph and Susan Daly
Rena David
Blaine Devine
Joseph Di Prisco
Neal Shorstein and Christopher Doane
Bruce Ericson
Margery Eriksson and James Nelson
Sarah Everett
Leo and Carmina Eylar
Darron Flagg and Maria Mba Wright
Lewis and Christiane Frederickson
Susan Gallardo and Mark Freitas
Paul Gertmenian
John Gile
Carol and Angela Glann
Kenneth Gobalet
Martha and Joseph Goralka
Marian and Roger Gray
Earl and Bonnie Hamlin
Melvin Harrison and Barbara Hardacre
Victoria Henley
Carolyn and Robert Heywood
Judit and Thomas Jackovics
Mark Jacobs
Jonathan Kleid and Robin Hampton
Carole Klein
Susan Lambert
Edward Long
Kathie Long
Holly and Thomas Love
Geralyn and Eugene Lynch
Pamela Magnuson-Peddle
Roger and Joan Mann
Frank Joseph Martin
Linda Millar
Barbara Moran and Charlie Haas
Mike Moye
Kavya Muthanna
Len Nathan
Andreas Neyer
Sharon Noteboom
Mary Oram
Lisa Herrinton and Stuart Ozer
Eva and Aaron Paul
Linda Pinkoski
Linda Purkiss
Ron Ramin
Kennedy and Kathleen Richardson
M. Louise Rothman-Riemer and Davis Riemer
Anjanette Scott
Karen and Ross Scroggs
Keith Slibsager
Sylvia Smith and Stanley Kowalski
Rachel Taylor Johansen and Eric Johansen
Samuel Test
Fern Tiger
Sharon Vonderau
Ellen Walker
Timothy Wendt
Laura and Steve Wolff
Carolyn Yale
$500-$999
Maureen Alano and George Zolinsky
Jacquie Anderson
Julianne Anderson
Alessandra Aquianti
Dion and David Aroner
Catherine Atcheson
Leslie Bacon
Deborah and William M. Baldwin
Eileen Blood-Golden
Thomas Bosserman
Camille and Wayne Brotze
Carol Brown and Tom Spalding
Evangeline C. Buell
Helene Byrne and John Vallerga
Amy Chung
Edward Cullen and Ann O'Connor
Paul Davis
Sirron Davis
Cindy and Brian Deans
Nancy DeRoche
Joe DeVries and Olga Bolotina
Kenneth Donnelly
Anne Drejet
Emerson and Sara DuBois
Nancy Dyar
William Estheimer
Roland Feller
Harry and Sheilah Fish
Reyla Graber
Eudice Greene
Gail Grigsby and Alan Crockett
Bonnie Hampton
Alan Harper
Marcia Hawkins
Richard Hawkins
Mary Katherine Johnson
Donald and Judith Jones
Didi and Paul Kubicek
Terry Kulka
Meri Lane
Monya Lane
Maureen and George Lenahan
Ellen and Barry B. Levine
Kara Levine
Linda J. Likar
Edward Love
Nancy Lowenthal
Christopher Lundin
John McClure and Linda Sayler
Kathleen and Daniel McKinney
Merrilee H. Mitchell
James Morris
Cheryl Ann Mouton
Joan Neblett
Russell Nelson
Thomas Nelson
Elisabeth and Michael O'Malley
Lidia Owens
Lawrence Pinkus and Ruth Harvey
Michael Pyatok
Luis Ramirez
Estrellita and Raleigh Redus
Brian Ripley
Pamela and Jim Robson
Richard R. Rossi and Kimberly Mark Webb
Kay Vinson Ruhland
Barbara Sanders
Gregg Schluntz
Tom Schunn and Anne Fay
Lori Schweitzer and Steven Caccamo
Ben Redcross and Michael Sears
Frances Slack and John Raeside
Kenneth Sorey
Lisa Strongin
Jamienne Studley and Gary Smith
Michael Sullivan
Marsha Shaw Sutherland
Kristi Swope and Randall McEachern
Sandy and Linda Wagner
Michael Walsh
Mary and Peter Weinstein
Elizabeth Wierzbianska
Ann Williamson
Margot Yapp
$250-$499
Ted Allen and Carla Moore
Linda Andrew-Marshall
Anonymous (2)
Gordon S. Baranco
Nikki Bas
Anita Battle
Claude and Carol Benedix
Bruce Bennett
Lisa Benton
M. Hope Young and Kevin Best
Sallie Blytt
Marion Brackett
Christine Brigagliano
David Brown
Janice Cantu
Pi-Fen Chen
Robert Chiles
Minoo and Lewis Clayman
Andrew Cohen
Paul Davis
Pamela Dernham and Greg Linden
Frances Dibble
Joanne Drabek and Thor Start
Rick Draper
Yvette Chalom and Paul Fogel
Rosa L. Fregoso
Nancy M. Friedman
Stephen and Valerie Garry
Janet Glasgow
Joe and Martha Goralka
Edward Gordon
Sheldon and Judy Greene
Joseph Edelberg
Susan and Charles Hanson
Hunter Harris
Carol Haskell and Jon Seidel
Saralinda and Richard M. Jackson
Jonathan and Joy Jacobs
Rosemary Jenckes
Lee Jones
Patricia Kates
Anna M. Keim
Lauren Kerr
Ellen Kerrigan and Baker A. Peeples
Baker Peeples
Brian Leonard
Mark Lightfoot
Anita M Battle
Sumona Majumdar
Margaret and John Maloney
Helen M. Marcus
Denise Martini
Tommie Mayfield
Catherine McLane
Alexandra Moore
Sharmin and Farshid Moussavi
Lenore Naxon
Glenn Otterman
Seokjoon Pang
Kurt Patzner and Carla Picchi
Floyd Huen and Jean Quan
Wallace and Gayle Ransom
David M. Roberts
Avis Robinson
Martin Rokeach
Timothy Ross
Diane Sanchez
Phyllis Scaduto
Jane Seleznow
Stephen Shefler
Wendy Simon
Arthur Ogus and Jenifer Steele
Dennis Rothhaar and Miriam Steinbock
Janice Tudor
Philip C. and Shantha N. Ursell
Thomas and Margaret Vinson
Charles, Geraldine and Lisa Waitman
Penelope Washbourn
Heather Watson
Katherine and Jon Weiner
Thomas Wilberding
Elouise Wilson
Eva Mae Youngberg
To our supporters up to $249: Every friend of the Oakland Symphony family is an invaluable part of sustaining our music and education programs, and there are many more than we can list here. We are thankful for your generosity.
We are grateful to those who have remembered the Oakland Symphony with bequests. These gifts will help establish and grow the Symphony’s endowment, providing support for future generations of music lovers and students.For more information contact our Development Department at (510) 444-0801.
James Bell
Toby C. Berger †
Marie Cerles Boss †
Robert E. Burton
Gail Coney
Jean Cunningham † and Carla Scherr
Christopher and Kathryn Dann
Arthur Dunlop †
Susie Elkind †
Bette and Robert Epstein
Dorothy Ewing †
Lewis and Christiane Frederickson
Paul Gertmenian
David Graber †
Lisa Caul and Robert Harrington
Jon F. and Connie M. Hartung
James Hasler
Harry Howe
H. Nona Hungate †
Mary Israel
Jeanne and Stuart Korn
Terry Kulka and Gary Semans
Regina Lackner
Jane Ann Lamph
David Leinbach †
Douglas Love
Cornell C. Maier
Samuel Miller and Maude Pervere
Sam R. Miller
Mary Morris † and Harold Lawrence†
Roderick Murray †
Sterling Parks †
Sterling Parks
Muriel and Irving Schnayer †
Ellie Shapiro
Carolyn Sonfield †
Monique Stevenson
John † and Thelma Taylor †
Joan Thatcher †
Fern Tiger
Laura Tow
C. Henry and Susan Veit
Albert J. Vizinho
Arthur Weil
Ingeborg R. and Reinald A. Wells †
Joan Wetherell
Donna Williams
† deceased