President’s Circle
Benefactor - $10,000 & Above
KMC Foundation in memory of Ken Cummane
Barbara and David Lowy in memory of Otto Lowy
Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation
Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation
RBC Foundation
Rix Family Foundation
Leader - $5,000-$6,999
Morris and Susan Biddle
John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation
George Laverock and Jane Coop
Partner - $3,000-$4,999
Count Enrico and Countess Aline Dobrzensky
David E. Lemon
Advocate - $1,500-$2,999
Bryan and Gail Atkins
Matthew Baird and Heather Wood
Mrs. Marti Barregar
The Christopher Foundation
Dr. Stephen Drance, OC and Mrs. Betty Drance
Debra Hewson
Terry and Heather Hodgins
Sylvia L'Ecuyer
Bruce Wright
Fanfare Level
Supporter - $750-$1,499
Dr. Jean and Dr. Alastair Carruthers
Warren and Cecilia Chueh
Stephanie Chung
Maureen Ciarniello
Heather Edwards
Richard and Diane Loomer
Robert M. Ledingham
Paddy and Graeme Macleod
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Anonymous
Patron - $500-$749
Ian Alexander and Marilyn Dalzell
Tama and Maurice Copithorne
David Cousins and Pat Dawson
Sharman King
Amy Laverock and Ken Neal
Sue and Clive Lonsdale
Nancy Nanji
Anne B. Piternick
Robert S. Rothwell, MD
Karen Wilson
Anonymous
Associate - $250-$499
Don Brooks
Dr. Lawrence Burr and Maggie Burr
Nechemjah Cohen
Karen and Ed Foss
Kenneth and Mitzi Hopkins
Daniel Lewin
Marjorie and George Major
J. Cameron Mowatt
Christine Nicolas
Chris Patrick
Sam Sullivan
Mary McGeer and Rollie Thompson
Gerald Whittall
Anonymous in memory of Tom Blom
Contributor - $150-$249
Edward and Dorothy Chiasson
Karen and Andrew Dawes, CM
Sal Ferreras and Janet Miller
Elisabeth Finch
Blake Gilks
Vi Goosen
Phil Hunt
Irene and Michael Jeffery
Ron Jobe
Harry Jongerden
Wu Lee Chen-Shien
The Frank and Joan Lew Charitable Trust
Douglas Loughran
Nicolas and Marta Maftei
David and Bettie Merrell
Vera Micznik
Charmian and Al Moul
Laurel Mowatt
Diane Roscoe
Don and Ginny Russell
Sarah Sidhu
Laura Siliatrault
Robert and Ellen Silverman
Bernice and Ronald Slemko
Barbara Smith
Cherie Stutz
Dave Thomas
Ching Tien
Jay and Susie Tyrrell
Moyra Van Nus
Nancy Wu
Raymond and Patricia Young
Friend - up to $150
Ann Adams
Judith Allan
Janet L. Allwork
Peter Arbuckle
Claire Eloise Ashbee
Jean Ashworth-Bartle
Wendy Atkinson
Raymond Aucoin
Herb and Mary Auerbach
Roger and Jennifer Baird
Barbara Baker
Trisha and Ross Beaty
Jodi Beaubien
Dorothy Beckel
Donnae Bell
Kathy Bell-Irving
Rick Bennett
Lois M. Bewley
Ronald Bonar
Roger Bose
Dean Brown
Donna Brown
William and Sandra Bruneau
Sheila Buttar
Luisa Canuto
Angela Chang
Michelle Chang
Stephen Chatman
Alice Chen
Sheng-Kuei Chen
Yuwen Chen
Chin Hsien Chiang
Chung-Wu and Wen-Yee Chou
Antonia Chu
Joyce Chung
Marylin P. Clark
Dorothy Clippingdale
Rob Coatsworth
Signy Coatsworth
Virginia Coatsworth
Anna Collins
Darryl Condon
Ann Corrigan
Terry Cox
Catherine Crouch
Nancy Davidson
Carolyn T. Davies
Judith F. Davis
Terence Dawson
Laura Di Cicco
Janet Dickhout
James Don
Ethel and Jeffrey Doughty
Barbara Downs
Elise Drake
Morna Edmundson
Peter G. Elliott
Dale Essar
Kris Etches
Kate Evans
Dianne Faber
Diana Filer
Grant Finnighan
Su Forbes
Jorden Foss
Friederike Frieler
Rainer Frieler
Francesca Fung
John Gallop and Norma Varley
Christopher Gaze
Wayne Gillies
David Gouthro
Margo Gram
Dr. Evelyn Harden
Jeffrey Harney
Victoria Hathaway
In memory of Anne Hathorn
Cynthia Henderson
Joyce Hinton
Bruce Hoffman
Susan Howard
John Howes
Chian-Li Hsu
Frances Hudson
Treena Innes
Brian Johnston
Linda and Michael Jones
Harry and Verna Jongerden
Sandy Kedey
Heather Kennedy
Linda Kinney
Richard Kurth
Susan Knoll
Joyce Tzu-Yao Ko
J. Evan Kreider
Peter Ladner
Jane Latter
Janet and Derwyn Lea
Wing Len Chu
Marc Lindy
Flora Liu
Mei Tsen Liu
Rob Lodder and Maeve Slein
Constance Longworth
Patrick MacDonald
Wanda Madokoro
Karen Mang
Natalie Marach
Jacques Marquis
Dan Mattinson
Robert L. Mayhew
Sarah and John McAlpine
John McBain
Mary MacDonald
Mary McGeer and Rollie Thompson
Wendy Mckee
Raymond McNabb
Donald K. McQueen
Pauline Megannety
Catherine Merlin
Colin Miles and Winnie Nowell
Roger Mirka
Andrew Mowatt
Shelley Munro
Susan Munro
Karen Ng
Susan and Paul Ohanessian
Anida Olsen
Liam O'Sullivan
Carol Li-Chiang Pan
Anite Parke
Colette Parsons
Edward Pascal
Anne Peterson-Angus
Dr. and Mrs. Ross Petty
Pat and Eric Peura
Sandra Phillips
Jeff Pitcher
Hein Poulus and Mollie Massie
Heather Pynn
Darrell Rea
Brian Rideout-Mooney
Neil Ritchie
Diane L. Roscoe
Darryl Sabo
Diana H. Sanderson
Larissa Saunders
Manfred Scholermann
Marianna Scott
Sarah Sidhu
Lynda Siggers
Jodi Smith
Martha Spears
Karen Sperhoff
Ron Stern
Michele Swanson
M.C. Taylor
Mary Thomson
Patrizia Todaro
Manfred Trummer
Chia-Shun Tseng
Johannes van Iperen
Mahmoud Virani
Yawen Wang
Gayle Webster
Cora Whiting
Christopher Whitney
Pam Withers
Charles Yang
* This list reflects donations received through September 23, 2012
Alvin S. Nemetz -Founding Donor to MusicFest Vancouver and Namesake of the Alvin S. Nemetz Festival Vancouver Endowment Fund
Born and educated in Vancouver, Alvin S. Nemetz moved to the United States in 1952 to pursue further studies in his chosen field of economics at the University of Washington and at the School of Business at Columbia University where he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow. After 30 years in business in the US and Toronto, he realized his dream of returning to the city of his birth. Back in Vancouver, he generously shared his time and assets for the enrichment of the community until his death in May 2001. A devoted family man and keen traveler with his wife Sheila, daughters Andrea and Jill, son-in-law Ralph, and grandchildren Ian and Sarah, Alvin always made a point of seeking out indigenous music in any place he visited, purchasing recordings in locales such as Greece, Memphis, South America, and St. Petersburg, Russia, to name a few.
A life-long lover of music, Alvin was especially proud to have had a part in bringing the inaugural MusicFest Vancouver 2000 from a dream to reality. He joined the fundraising committee at the invitation of Founding President Stephen Drance who describes Alvin as “a visionary as far as the Festival was concerned. He was a very early supporter when it mattered most – one of the very first people to present us with a cheque – and remained a consistent supporter through three years of organizing.”
