On behalf of the entire community, we extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the committed individuals, organizations, and foundations that made donations to Symphony Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, or the Symphony Nova Scotia Foundation between January 1, 2021 and the end of the 2021/22 fiscal year (June 30, 2022). Your generosity and passion inspire us and allow us to continue to bring exceptional performances and outreach programs to audiences across the province. We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of this information, but we invite you to contact us to let us know of any errors or omissions. Donors that have given in five or more consecutive years are bolded.
Music Director's Sphere ($50,000+)
Community Foundation of Nova Scotia – JFS Fund
The Estate of Audrey G. Cowan
The Estate of William & Corinne Hopgood
The Late Murrin Leim
Sandy Leim
Eleanor McCain
The Estate of Barbara Rose Robertson
Anonymous
Music Director's Platinum Circle ($20,000+)
The Craig Foundation
Dr. Jane Gordon
Judith Grant
Stuart & Hilda Grossert
The MacNeill Foundation: H. Gordon & Barbara MacNeill
The Estate of Jean Marsh
Gail Morris & Sandy Rutledge
David B. Ritcey
Jason Roth & Cheryl Steadman-Roth
The Estate of Edwin Charles Urquhart
Anonymous
Music Director's Gold Circle ($10,000+)
The John and Judy Bragg Family Foundation
Fred & Elizabeth Fountain
The Estate of Judith Grant
Helga Guderley & John Himmelman
A. Mary Holmes Trust
Susan Kerslake
John & Catherine Lazier
J.J. Lyon
The J&W Murphy Foundation
Anja Pearre
Van & Babs Penick
Women for Music
Anonymous
Music Director's Silver Circle ($5,000+)
The Estate of Margaret M. Arklie
Bill & Lorraine Black
Jules Chamberlain
Harold E. Crosby
Nancy Doty, in memory of Carl Doty
The Estate of Dr. Richard Goldbloom
David & Patricia Hastings
Kathleen Jaeger
Paul & Barbara Kent
Stephen & Dennice Leahey
Mary Lu MacDonald
The Estate of Dimitri “Jimmy” Manos
Hon. Margaret N. McCain, O.C.
Sherry Porter, C.M. & Doug Hall
Eli & Wendy Rees
Anne Slayden
The Zachary Smith Giving Foundation
Keith & Julia Taylor
Marilyn Welland
Bob & Jennie Widdowson
Anonymous
Music Director's Bronze Circle ($1,000+)
Doris A. Arnold
Ninette Babineau
Michael & Sheila Banks
Stephen & Rosemary Barbour
Barteaux Labour & Employment Lawyers
Dianne & Stephen Beaufoy
Nicholas Bishop
William Blackburn & Ramona Lumpkin
Mary Blanchard
Steve Bornemann
Bob & Michèle Bortolussi
Ron Burdock & Margaret Douma
Rodney & Margaret Caley
Hugh & Ann Cameron
Wes & Diane Campbell
J.P. & Sally Camus
Terry Carroll
Margaret Chapman & Greg Scherkoske
Patrick & Beverly Charlton
Chebucto Orchestral Society of Nova Scotia
David & Carolyn Chipman
Joan Cleather
Marcelle Comeau
Michel & Trudy Comeau
Christine Corston
Sandy & Gregory Crosby
Alan & Laurie Cruess
Ruth Danson
Louis & Fedora Deveau
Marel Eager
Robert Erickson
Valerie Evans & Alain Chamagne
Genest Psychological Services Incorporated
Chris & Hiya Field
Art Finbow & Janet Bown
Audrey & Ken Fram
Wayne Garland
Janet & Allan Gaskin
Robert Geraghty
Robert Gershey
Gordon Giacomin
Jennifer Hastey Girvan
Dale Godsoe, C.M.
The Gray Family, in memory of Lloyd Frederick Gray
Michael & Jean Gray
Dr. Marie-Claude Grégoire
Peter & Mary Ellen Gurnham
Eric Hanley
Leah Hamilton
Sharon Hart
Larry Hayes & Sharon Nicolle
Bill & Norma Jones
Lucy Kerr
Michael Laffin
Toni Laidlaw & Eric Hanley
KPMG
Craig Landry
Lois & Dr. Robert LaRoche
Patricia Lawrence
Anne & Wilf Laybolt
Arthur & Patsy LeBlanc
Dr. & Mrs. Raymond & Francoise LeBlanc
Hal Lewis & Erica Gillespie
Roddy Macdonald
Rick & Nan MacDonald
Barbara MacKinnon
Iona MacLean
Ernie Manicom
Lois & David Mann
Ruth March
Mary Martin
David & Doreen Martin
Timothy C. Matthews, K.C.
Martha Mattson
Michael McFadden
Sandra & Ben McIsaac
Kevin McTaggart & Linda Lefler
Carol Mercer & Wally Seipp
David Mercer
Dorothy Morrison
Helen Murray
Jock & Janet Murray
Barbara O'Shea
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston
Mary Lou Payzant
Gavin Perryman
Dennis P. Phillips, PhD
Katheryn Phillips
candice j. prior
Linda & Louis Ramaley
Catherine Read
Doug & Maureen Reid
Brian Rendell
Kathleen Ritchie, in memory of Gaylan Ritchie
Cynthia Robertson & Stanley Strug
Peter Rogers
H.A. Ryding
Allan & Leslie Shaw
Robbie & Jean Shaw
Jill Shlossberg
Allan J. Silverman
Deborah Smith
The Estate of Marie June Smythe
Karen Spaulding
Spencer Family Charitable Foundation
Rose Spicer
Jennifer Szerb
Audrey Tenniswood
United Way of Halifax Region
Philippa Verrier
Dan Walsh
Karolyn Waterson & Carl Boyd
Dr. J. Philip Welch
Chris Wilkinson & Suzanne Lemieux
David & Christine Wilson
Dr. Patty Wren & Dr. Geoffrey Turnbull
Anonymous (4)
Concertmaster’s Circle ($500+)
Ken & Janet Adams
Piero Ascoli
Brewer & Joan Auld
James Balcom
Deborah & Jim Ballinger
Hugh Campbell, in memory of Isabella Campbell
Lorraine Campbell
Janet Carney
Julie Ann Carroll
The late Guy Chauvin
Nancy & Fred Chipman
Donald & Susan Church
Sybilla Corvin
Richard Cregan
Kay Crinean
Heather Crocker
Michal & Vance Crowe
Joan Cunningham
Nanciellen Davis
Patricia DeMeo
Yvonne & Lauren DeRoller
Kenneth & Marged Dewar
Domus Realty
The Donovan Family Charitable Foundation
Marilyn & John Edgecombe
Sibley Medical Incorporated
Marjorie Fanjoy
Judy Farnell
James A. & Karen Farquhar
Anthony Farrell & Beverly d'Entremont
Conrad Fernandez & Suzanne Ramsey
Keith & Lise Fillmore
Kathleen Franklin
Bill Gates
Susan Godwin
D'Arcy Gray
Peter Green & Gerrie Masters
Margaret Guy
Marilyn & Reid Harrison
Robert & Mary Hill
Christopher Hubley
Roger & Gayle Hughes
Terry & Janet Kawchuk
Marion D. Kennedy
Susan Kulik
Susan Letson
J. & D. LindenSmith
Bill & Stella Lord
Tom Lynch
Peter MacAskill
Stephanie Mykietyn & W. Scott MacConnell
Bill MacDonald & Patricia Pearce
Ian & Anne MacDonald
Robert & Charlotte Mackeigan
David Manning
Rod & Michele Millar
Carmen Morand
Penny & Len Moxon
Perry Nodelman
The Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra Foundation
Robert & Nancy Pasquet
Stephen & Jane Robertson
Gerald Roy
Sandy Rutledge
Susan Sherwin
Lois A. Shields
Shelagh Skerry
Madelyn Spicer
Theriault Financial
Tanya Tintner
Barbara Urquhart
Carolyn Vroom
Mark Warren
Peter & Catherine Weis
Juliet & Mel Whalen
Anonymous (8)
Symphony Club ($250+)
Pam Ackerman
Stephen Archibald
Ingolf Askevold
ASYS Pharmaceutical Consultants – APC Inc.
Inbal Bahar
Leslie & Jeannine Baikie
Christopher Banks & Catherine Smalley
Robert & Rejeanne Bell
Barbara Berringer
Nancy Bliss
Darrell & Kaye Boutilier
Ann Brayton
Richard Buggeln
Melissa & Level Chan
Helen Cianfaglione
Elizabeth Crocker
Cilla Cross
Robert Currie
Atul Dar
Colin & Ellen Darlington
Joan Dawson
Eleanor Decker
Heather Desserud
Myrla Drysdale
Sheila & Ray Francis
Dan O'Connor & Sharon Fraser
Peter Fillmore
Anna Fried
Georgina Geldert
Donald & Joleen Gordon
Margot Grant
Jennifer Gray
Lucie Guibault
Joan Harbison & George D. Perry
Katherine & Jim Hatheway
Susan Hazelwood
Marie-Claude Hébert
Beverley Hennigar
Maris Hughes
Andrew & Marian Issekutz
Dorothy Jackson
Nigel & Pauline Kemp
Gordon F. Kent
Ethel Kostman
Stan Kutcher & Jan Sheppard Kutcher
Emanuel Laufer
Carol & Bruce Law
Bertrum MacDonald
Linda MacDonald
Bill & Robin MacInnis
Bob MacKenzie
Gary & Marilyn MacKenzie
Peggy MacLean
Erin Macleod
Shari Mallory
Valerie MacMichael
Heidi MacPhee
Sabine Marfels
Philip Massarelli
Joy Matthews
Geraldine May
Wilma Mays
Sue & Rod McCulloch
Charmaine McDonald
Wendy Mcdonald
John McElhiney
Audab Aidan Meade & Emei Tsai
Duncan & Ann Miller
Frank E. Milne
John A. Montgomerie
Alberta Morgan
Marilyn & Graham Morgan
Shirley Mosher
Bruce & Susan Moxley
Donald Murray
Christopher Nickel
Kyoko Ohashi
Terrence Paris
Mary Parkhill
Peter & Joyce Payan
Pierre & Margaret Perron
Shelley Phipps
Linda & Alain Pirard
Phyllis Porter-Baker
Alayne Pothier
Jill & Bill Rafuse
Bill & Betty Roger
Victoria & Edwin Rosenberg
Charles Ross & Fran McIntyre
Barbara & Robert Rushton
Jeffrey Sachs
Elizabeth Salton
Chelluri Sastri
Michael Sherar & Elizabeth Delorey
Detlev & Gisella Steffen
Barbara Smith
Malcolm Smith
The Martini Ladies
Brian Thompson
Lorraine Thompson
Anne Timmins
Marvin & Carol Uchida
Esther & Bill VanGorder
Alexa Vodicka
Anonymous (5)
Companion Club ($100+)
Carl & Caroline Abbott
Elizabeth Adamson
Carol Adderson
David Andrews
Colin Arnold
Daneen Atkinson-Dakin
Fred & Elizabeth Axnick
Melvin & Myrna Baird
Wray Barraclough
Anne Bastedo
Stephen Bearne
Susan Bethune
Carol Betts
Elizabeth Biekens
M.H. Billard
Shirley Blair
Bruce Blakemore
Wanda Bonk
Carl Breckenridge
Bob Breithaupt
Dianne Brookfield
Leo & Cathy Brooks
Gordon & Pamela Brown
Rick Buhr & Carolyn Drysdale-Buhr
Douglas & Janice Burke
Madge & Brian Burnell
Gordon Butler
Laura Butler
David & Cathy Byers
David Caldwell
Sheila A. Cardone
Nancy Ann Carr
Jackie Chapman
Sandra Chappell
Kaireen Chaytor
Douglas Chaytor
Rick & Carolyn Chenhall
Dr. Christopher & Gillian Childs
Corey Childs
Mark Chin-Yee
Gracy Claster
Janice & William Clifford
Heather Coll
Louis & Clarice Comeau
Sheliah Connolly
Catherine Connors
Peter Conrod
Doug & Melanie Cooke
Raymond Cormier
Christena Cote
Marie Cox
Barbara Cummergen
Dr. Thomas Curran
Kevin Curry
Shirley Dean
Bev Dellapinna
Anne Dent
Carol Desoer
Angela Deveaux
Christopher & Heidi Devlin
Melissa Doiron
Ruth Dowden
Carolyn Downie
Tammy Doyle
Leslie Dubinsky
Norah Dunbar
Martine Durier-Copp
Paul Elliot
Trinda L. Ernst
Margot Fawcett
Christine Feierabend
Rob Fennell
Judith Fingard
John Finley
Andrea Fisher
Jordan Fisher
Marian Fortune-Stone
The Hon. Mayann Francis
Frank Fraser
Lloyd & Elaine Fraser
J. Gagnon & G. Allard
Catherine Gaulton
Bonnie Elizabeth Gaverluk
Gail Gordon
The Granite Club
Susan Grant & William Middleton
Roselle Green
Wayne & Eleanor Grennan
Holly Gunn
Seonhee Ha
Edwin & Patricia Harris
Bill Hart
Murray Hartwell
Shirley & Mark Hazen
Sylvia Hegge
Nora Henderson
Dr. Paul Hickey
Donald Hill
Mary Hills
Gary & Nancy Holt
Lorna Huestis
Elizabeth Hughes
Peg Humphreys
Terry & Stephanie Hurrell
Wayne & Sharon Ingalls
Margaret James
Stephen & Terry Jarrett
Brian & Marion Jay
Roshini Kassie
Shelagh Keene
Margaret Kendall
Blair King
Hans & Mariolina Koller-Fanconi
Noam Koubi-Bahar
Brian Lager
R. Brant Laidler
Vincent Lam
Deborah & Donald Langille
Pink Larkin
Kimberley Lawlor & Christopher Smith
Kate Lazier
Alan & Sheila Leard
Denis Lefort
Nancy LeMoine
Barry & Nancy Lesser
Bernard & Judith Leviten
Lidgard Photography
Cathy Little
Sharon L. Logan
Joan Long
Kerry Lynk
Carol MacAskill
Kate F. MacDonald
Sharon MacDonald
William MacDonlad & Pauline LeBlanc
Ken & Mary MacInnis
Doug & Alice Macintosh
Bill MacLean
Ann Maclean
Ron & Mary Macnab
Patrick Macneil
Don & Carol MacNeill
Janice Mah
Sylvia Mangalam
Linda Marks
Jason Grek Martin
Mary Martin
Rachel Martin & Donald Mitchell
Christian Marzari
Andrea & Eric Mathis
Tiyt Matros
Ron Matthews
Douglas Maxwell
Janet Maybee
Bob & Wendy McDonald
Harold McGee
Donna McGrath
Cheryl McKenzie
Lauchlin McKenzie
Kevin McNamara
Laurie McNeill
David Meadows
Rob & Ann Merritt
Gary A. Miller
John Miller
David & Nancy Mills
Janet Mitchell
Helen Money
Ada & Ted Morash
John Morehouse
Nancy Morrison & Gregory Baker
Adam Mueller
Paddy Muir
Marguerite & Hector Muise
Michael & Elizabeth Murphy
Lois Murray
Richard Murray
Anne Nestman
Carolyn Nobes
Bary Norris
Nova Harps
Lyndsay Nutter
James O'Brien
Maureen O'Connell
Karen Olinyk
Andrew Orr
James Orr
John Osler
Cheryl Osmond
Glenn & Maryanne Palmer
Bev Palmer Mason
Diane Palmeter
Michelle Paon
Madeleine Paquin
Margaret & William Parker
George Parker
Kevork Peltekian
Barbara Poranek
Chris & Helen Prowse
D.W. Purchase
Anne & Rory Pyper
David Reid
LCDR Sherry Richardson
Neil & Katheryn Richter
J. William Ritchie
Pauline Rooney
Anne Ryan
Jenny Sandison
Aet & Helmuth Sandstrom
Dan & Joan Sargeant
Joan M. Sargeant
Anne Schleit
Kevin Schwenker
Ana See-ya-oosh
Kazue Semba
Robert & Elizabeth Shaffelburg
Bill & Mary Sheldon
Sheila & Tom Sheppard
Margaret Shirley
David Shupe & Gladys Ascah
Ingrid Sketris
Dorothy Smith
Robert Stalker
Corinne Steele
Michael Steinitz
M. & E. Stevenson
Erika Stokes
John Swain
Diane Swanzey
Kathryn Swenson
Mary-Catherine Taylor
Sheila Tregunno
Janet Tucker
Ian & Gertrude Urquhart
Nancy Van Eyk
Krista Vincent
Maria Vink
Carol von Syberg
Pauline Voon, in memory of Silver Donald Cameron
Joan Walker
Peter Walker
Robert & Barbara Walker
Marika Warren
Jean Watson
Rachel Weiss
Rabbi Rayson Weiss
David Welsh
Cheryl Wetmore
Gaye Wishart
Larry Woodman
Michael Wyman
Anonymous (22)
Legacy Circle Members
Doris A. Arnold
Ninette Babineau
James Balcom
Sandra Chappell
Joan Cleather
Christine Corston
Heather Crocker
Joan Cunningham
Nancy Doty
James & Cora Fanning
Anthony Farrell & Beverly d'Entremont
Jordan Fisher
Dale Godsoe, C.M.
Dr. Marie-Claude Grégoire
Sharon Hart
Jennifer Hastey Girvan
David & Patricia Hastings
Andrew & Marian Issekutz
Anne & Wilf Laybolt
Bill & Stella Lord
Mary Lu MacDonald
Rod & Robin MacLennan
Ernie Manicom
David & Doreen Martin
Mary Martin
Rachel Martin & Donald Mitchell
David Mercer
Frank E. Milne
Gail Morris & Sandy Rutledge
Lois Murray
Jonathan Neale
Barbara O'Shea
Sherry Porter, C.M. & Doug Hall
David B. Ritcey
Cynthia Robertson & Stanley Strug
Jason Roth & Cheryl Steadman-Roth
Anne Slayden
Madelyn Spicer
Audrey Tenniswood
Chris Wilkinson & Suzanne Lemieux
Anonymous (8)
In Memory
Janet Alexander
Gladys Ann Ascah
Nancy Atkinson
Dolores Barkhouse
Boris Brott
Gordon A. Brown
Anne Buik
Silver Donald Cameron
Paul Campbell
Guy Chauvin
Ted Cleather
Anthony A. Consentino
Glenn Alan Cooper
Margaret & Connie Cusack
James C. Eager
David Ewer
Gretchen Frances Finley
Walter & Sadie Fortune
Tom Gibson
Andre Gibeault
Roberta Graham
Lloyd Frederick Gray (1962-1977)
Tom Grove
Christena Irene Hagar & David B. O'Riley
Jean Hartley
Jeanne Lamon
Dr. John Lazier
John Lazier & Tom Grove
Murrin Leim
Herb MacDonald
Iona MacLean
Mary Catherine MacNeil
Dodie MacQuarrie
Abe Manheim
Inge Martin
Patrick O'Neill
Arlene Riches
Margot Schenk
Agnes Smith
Otto & Else Steinitz
Scottie Whittier Simons
Marie June Smyth
Steve West
Gordon Woulff, Sylvia & Sholem Woulff
John Yogis
In Honour
J.P & Sally Camus
Dad
Roberta Graham
D'Arcy Gray
Julia
Dr. Joanne Langley
Jeremiah (J.J.) Lyon
H. Gordon MacNeill
Wilma Mays
Sarah McCleave
Paul Medeiros & Alan North
NSCC IT Access Faculty & Staff
Chris Palmer
Rose Spicer
The Musicians of the Orchestra
Lena Turofsky
Shimon & Peggy Walt
Shimon Walt
Symphony Nova Scotia Foundation Donors
Carol Adderson
Carol Betts
Wonda Bonk
Antonia Di Castri
The Donovan Family Charitable Foundation
Chris & Hiya Field
Jordan Fisher
Judith Grant
Anne & Wilf Laybolt
The late Murrin Leim
Susanne MacDonald
The Estate of William MacDougall
Bill MacLean
Sean Malone
David Manning
Rachel Martin & Donald Mitchell
J & W Murphy Foundation
Alayne Pothier
David B. Ritcey
Bill & Betty Roger
Stephen Shupe
Jason Roth & Cheryl Steadman
Tanya Tintner
Anonymous (2)