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OUR DONORS

Our Donors are a group of like-minded individuals who understand the impact of access to quality music education.  Their generosity helps sustain a home for music—a place where people gather to listen, to create, and belong.

Villa Musica is more than just a place to learn or perform. It is a living community, built through shared music-making and sustained by the people who believe in it. One of our donors recently captured this beautifully when they said they give to Villa Musica to “Keep the Music Flowing.” That steady support ensures that this home remains open, welcoming, and vibrant—week after week, year after year.

We are deeply grateful to the individuals, families, foundations, and businesses who make this possible through their ongoing generosity. If Villa Musica is meaningful to you, we invite you to join our community of annual supporters and help keep the music flowing for everyone who calls this place their home for music.

The names below reflect Calendar Year 2025 giving. If you would like to add your name to this list, please reach out to Dr. Fiona L. Chatwin, our Executive Director, at fchatwin@villamusica.org

LEGACY CIRCLE

$100,000+ – Founder

Heather Chisholm-Chait

The Prebys Foundation

$75,000+ – Conductor

City of San Diego – Dept. of Cultural Affairs

$50,000+ – Ambassador

The Seid/Einhorn Families

Our donors are crucial to the mission here at Villa Musica. We are especially thankful to Heather Chisholm-Chait who recently passed away. Heather was Villa Musica’s first ever donor and in the summer of 2006 gave $5,000 to establish our Scholarship Fund. Over the past 20 years Heather gave annually to ensure that quality music education was always available to anyone seeking access. Thank-you Heather. We miss you.

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

$25,000+ – Virtuoso

The National Endowment for the Arts
The Parker Foundation
The Shiley Foundation

$15,000+ – Diva

Mary E. Hield and Robert R. Hield Endowment Fund
The North Family

$10,000+ – Maestro

The Ackerman Foundation
Bill and Martha Gilmer
Harry Griswold and Stephanie Webber
Olivier Harismendy and Lars Pache
Eloisa Haudenschild
Christine and John Kesser
Dianne and Tom Lookabaugh
Mojdehi Family
Sharon and Dean Popp
San Diego County District 4
San Diego County District 3
Dr. Seuss Foundation

ACCESS CIRCLE

$5,000+ – Artist

Molly and Ted Eldredge
Art Pratt Foundation at Old Mission Rotary
Laurie Mitchell
Northway Homes
Qualcomm
Dave and Sherry Savage
The Tippett Foundation
Jessica Voytek

$2,500+ – Community Musician

Lisa Bastien and Basil Hanss
Ali and Mary Behnam
Terry and Olivia Bloom
Adriana Cuenca
Carmen Cuenca
Lindsey and Rich Heinrich
Lulu Hsu
Angela and Matt Kilman
Haley Kopp
Mojdehi Galvin Rego LLP
Mark Page
The Sunrise Rotary Club – Janet White
Steve Wasserman
Darryl and Dwight Yakel Scholarship Fund

$1,000+ – Chorister

Anklesara Family Foundation
Aram Akhavan
Soraya and Kaveh Bagheri
Barbara and JC Kyrillos
Dick and Sharon Bullard
California Bank of Commerce
Citibank
Fiona Chatwin and Jude Weirmeir
Nils and Claudia Clark
Catherine Condon
Mitch and Julie Dubick
Mell & Kieran Gallahue
Carrie Greenstein
The Gupta Family Foundation
Kyle and Neil Ingram-Robinson
Warren Kessler
Dr. Richard Kolodner and Dr. Jean Wang
Barbara and J.C. Kyrillos
Katy McDonald
Para La Musica Inc.

David Pohl and Jeff Berger
Point Loma Summer Concerts
Mark and Kellie Quint
Laura Rehrmann
Richard Rushton
Saleh Family Charitable Gift Fund
San Diego Unified School District Community Service Association
Ryan Scott
Fred Sebold
Negar and Majid Shahbaz
Billy Shaw
Dee Silver
Joshua Smith
Summit Wealth Group
Irina Telyukova
US Bank
Kathleen Walsh
Dan and Michelle Weiss
Mitch Woodbury

$500+ – Orchestra Member

Lyle Beller
Laurel Bernstein
Nick and Samantha Binkley
Lynne & William Denby
Gary Brown
Sara Browne
Byron Chow
Annette Friend
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co
Agnes Gardet and Fadi Towfic
Nelli Garton
Uli and Mark Heine
Susan Kindig
Greg Lemke
Marshall and Judy Lewis
Erin Lo
Margaret Lucia
John Naughton
Lauren Neal-Schei
Sherman Storr Memorial Fund
Barbara and Jerry Sutton
Eleanor Tring
Deepti and Miles Wilkinson
Martha Zapata

$250+ – Chamber Musician

Shane and Jen Albrent
Lisa Barthelemy
Bee Bornheimer
Barbara Broderick
Donald L. Carse Memorial Fund
Leslie Chen
Valerie and Jay Chereskin
Mary Ann and John Driscoll
Paige DuBois
Judith Eisenberg
Falcom West Insurance Inc.
Larry Feinberg
Nili and Giora Feuerstein
Foster and Louise Furcolo
Mirta Grifman
Silvio and Silvia Gutkind
Leila Hajialilou and Iraj Ghaemi
Nancy Hurwitz
John Kafka
Linda Kozin
Lisa Madlensky
Lilit Masarjian
Lisa McDonnell
Trish McEvoy
Lily Mojdehi
Greg Norman
Cindra Opalsky
Carol and Vann Parker
Charles Patton
Sarah and Daniel Pike
Rebecca Plant
Alexis Ranglas
Janet Raschke
Laura Reynolds
Linnea Searle
Cheryl and Jeff Smith
David & Phyllis Snyder
Darrell Styner
Shizhen Wang

$100+ –  Quartet Member

Mariel Boddington
Lillian Craven (in memory of Ed)
Anita Dawson
James Diez
Christopher and Monica Emery
Susan & Randy Eskridge
Nancy Farnan and Leif Fearn
Bibianne Fell
Fonna Forman
Ruth Gjerset
Cynthia Hibbs
Arthur and Verdery Kassebaum
Laddan Hashemian
Pamela Hayward
Cason Lane
Caroline Lilley
Lucy Loftin
Bethany Mahn
Veronica Murphy
Libby and Byron Nobis
Paul Oeth
Suzi Olsen
Alva Lorraine Pacheco
Kathleen Pihl
Chena Popper
Allison Rego
Rhonda Respini
Paulo Gomes Ribeiro
Lynette Rodriguez
Mariam Rodriguez Lee
Sheila Rosenberg
Kathleen Self
Shelley Smith
John Temple
Adrienne Valencia
Michael Yip