Our Special Thanks

The Grantors wish to acknowledge and offer their sincere and personal thanks to the many people who have generously offered their time and expertise so that the Foundation would not be limited (as so may offerings are) to specific projects or criteria.   Among those who have given so freely of their insights and advice in the past we are indebted to:







Glynn Ross, then Director of the Seattle Opera, a founder of Opera America and an ardent advocate of bringing music to the multitude.  We miss him!


Henry Holt, then Conductor of the Wagner Festival in Seattle


Dorothy Deming Smith,First Festival Chairlady of the Wagner Festival in Seattle  .. and  otherwise a Lady of the first order!

More recently, we are indebted to: Ralph N. Jackson, President of BMI-Foundation Frances Richard, ASCAP Herr Solf Schaefer, Director, IMD, Germany (retired) Brian Ferneyhough, Composer and Educator Dr. Martin Iddon, Composer and Musicologist and recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Foundation Steven Takasugi, PhD, Composer and Educator Dr. Thomas Schäfer, Director of IMD, Germany Hans Thomalla, DMusA, Assistant Professor of Music, Northwestern University and member of the Staubach Honoraria selection jury Bruce Hodges, music critic and author of “ Montonous Forest”, a blog of “music, art and the occasional cocktail recipe”

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