Support Us
With Thanks

For assistance during the 2025 season, the Festival Directors gratefully acknowledge:
• For hosting our concerts, St. Mark Presbyterian Church (The Rev. D. Mark Davis, Kathy Roberts, Sue-Ann Wichman); Sherman Library & Gardens (Scott LaFleur, Lisa Wagner, Harper Larson); and St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church (Father Shane Scott-Hamblen, Maile Jansen).
• For grants in support of our 45th season, the Colburn Foundation and the City of Newport Beach.
• For harpsichord supply and tuning services, Curtis Berak. For organ supply, Tesserae Baroque.
• For music librarian services, Andrew Waid.
• For artists’ accommodations, Kelly Carioti, Virginia Cassara & Tim Hunter, Susan Feldman, Roger & Ellen Kempler, Terrell & Deborah Koken, Courtney Kuroda, John McHugh, Annette Ritchie, Melissa Rodgers, Mary Anne Turley-Emett and Catherine & Robert Waters.
• For event facilitation, John Tynan (Box Office Manager), members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Omicron Pi Chapter (CSU Fullerton) and Corinne Atefi, Philip Benguhe, Wolfhard Homma, Wade Hostler, Nancy & Mario Liegghio, John McHugh, Tyler Morrison, Ruth & Wayne Norman, Dr. Vina R. Spiehler, David Thorpe, Jessica Weir, and Lynne Hayward Worley.
• For stage management and equipment, Pacific Symphony’s production department (Will Hunter, senior director).
• For amplification at Sherman Library & Gardens, Paul Levin.
• For catering the June 29 subscribers’ dinner, Suzanne’s Catering of Huntington Beach; for the donation of wine for Festival receptions, the Norman Family; for a nonprofit discount on wines for Festival receptions, Total Wine, Tustin; for coffee and teas at Sherman Gardens, Starbucks, Corona del Mar; for preparation of rehearsal meals, Ruth Norman and Lynne Hayward Worley.
• For editorial support, Patricia Bril and Paula Korn; for publicity, Virginia Cassara, Wolfhard Homma, John McHugh, Dr. Terri Munroe, and Lynne Hayward Worley; for website maintenance, Stephen Hammer; and for advertising liaison, Virginia Cassara, Dr. Terri Munroe and Lynne Hayward Worley.
• For publicizing our 2025 student programs, Newport Beach Public Library, NMUSD, Philharmonic Society Orange County, CSU Fullerton School of Music and Vanguard University, among others.
• The Festival’s Advertisers, whose advertisements appear in the printed Festival Program distributed at all concerts, and our Festival Supporters, without whose generous financial assistance our annual Festival would not survive.