2015 CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS • Several new named funds were created • The institution achieved 100 percent to support AMFS students in perpetuity. Campaign participation from year-round These include the following: staff—a strong sign of commitment from a group that believes in the future of + Friends, colleagues, and former the AMFS. A practice room was named students of John Rojak contributed in honor of this gift. to the endowment to create the John Rojak Bass Trombone Scholarship to • Many gifts were received in support celebrate his 25th anniversary as an of the sixty-eight practice rooms on artist-faculty member. the Bucksbaum Campus. These rooms provide a comfortable and acoustically + AMFS Board Chair Bob Hurst, along sound space for students to study with a score of generous friends and and practice. Recent donors include: supporters, established an endowed Jennifer DuBrul, Maja and Nic DuBrul, scholarship in honor of Alan Fletcher’s Marcy and Leo Edelstein, Gayle 10th season in Aspen. The Alan and Woody Hunt, Nancy and Peter Fletcher Endowed Scholarship will Meinig, Shirley and Albert Small, and cover tuition, room, and board for a Carrie and Joe Wells. student each year in perpetuity. • Generous patrons donated + Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass established approximately half of the funds needed the Asadour Santourian Aspen to match Joan Harris’s and the Irving Opera Center Scholarship to honor Harris Foundation’s $1 million matching Santourian’s artistic vision and grant in support of the Joan and Irving dedication to the presentation quality Harris Concert Hall 20th Anniversary each summer at the AMFS. Fund. The purpose of the Fund is to + The AMFS was named a beneficiary maintain the Hall at a world-class level, of the estate of Harry Hill Lawson. and it has already provided for key The estate’s executor, David Epstein, repairs. helped facilitate this bequest of • New members of the Gordon and Lillian $602,700 that will endow four full Hardy Planned Giving Society included scholarships specifically for students Joyce McGilvray, Lydia Morrongiello, with a connection to Illinois. and Sheryl and Michael DeGenring. + In response to the tragic loss of 2015 AMFS students Alex Greene and Ben Darneille in late August, fellow students movingly chose to memorialize these two students with the Alex Greene and Ben Darneille Memorial Scholarship.
TOP PHOTO | 2015 AMFS YEAR-ROUND STAFF POSE IN THE PRACTICE ROOM NAMED IN THEIR HONOR BOTTOM PHOTO | BOARD CHAIR BOB HURST AND BOARD MEMBER GAIL ENGELBERG AT A CAMPAIGN EVENT