President ’s Circle
Benefactor - $10,000 & Above
Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation
Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation
KMC Foundation in memory of Ken Cummane
Mrs. Sheila Nemetz through the Alvin S. Nemetz
Festival Vancouver Endowment Fund
RBC Foundation
Rix Family Foundation
Sustainer - $7,000-$9,999
Leader -$5,000-$6,999
Morris and Susan Biddle
John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation
Barbara and David Lowy in memory of Otto Lowy
Partner - $3,000-$4,999
Count Enrico and Countess Aline Dobrzensky
N. Victoria Gray
Advocate - $1,500-$2,999
Bryan and Gail Atkins
Mrs. Marti Barregar
The Christopher Foundation
Debra Hewson
Terry and Heather Hodgins
Sylvia L'Ecuyer
George Laverock and Jane Coop
David E. Lemon
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Bruce Wright
and one anonymous donor
Fanfare Level
Supporter - $750-$1,499
Marnie Carter
Stephanie Chung
Dr. Stephen Drance, OC and Mrs. Betty Drance
Paddy and Graeme Macleod
and one anonymous donor
Patron - $500-$749
Tama and Maurice Copithorne
Sam Feldman and Janet York
Bradley Fritz
Amy Laverock and Ken Neal
Nancy Nanji
Christine Nicolas
Anne B. Piternick
Robert S. Rothwell, MD
Karen Wilson
Anonymous in memory of Tom Blom
Associate - $250-$499
Warren and Cecilia Chueh
Daniel Lewin
Marjorie and George Major
Big Thom Architects Foundation
Mary McGeer and Rollie Thompson
Gerald Whittall
Contributor - $150-$249
Ian Alexander and Marilyn Dalzell
Matthew Baird and Heather Wood
Edward and Dorothy Chiasson
Karen and Andrew Dawes, CM
Sal Ferreras and Janet Miller
Elisabeth Finch
Karen and Ed Foss
Blake Gilks
Vi Goosen
Dr. Evelyn Harden
Harry Jongerden
Wu Lee Chen-Shien
The Frank and Joan Lew Charitable Trust
Nicolas and Marta Maftei
Charmian and Al Moul
J. Cameron Mowatt
Chris Patrick
Sarah Sidhu
Laura Siliatrault
Robert and Ellen Silverman
Cherie Stutz
Chao-Chao Wang
Nancy Wu
Friend - up to $150
Amine Ajana
Janet L. Allwork
Bob Baker and Beth Carter
Dorothy Beckel
Kathy Bell-Irving
Noel Best
Sumner W. Brown
Donna Brown
Dr. Lawrence Burr and Maggie Burr
Michael Bushnell
Luisa Canuto
Annick-Patricia Carriere
Yen Kuang Chang
Shou-Mei Chang
Amy Chang
Angela Chang
Athena Chang
Stephen Chatman
Alice Chen
Chun Chieh Chen
Jonson Chen
Sheng-Kuei Chen
Yu Wen Chen
John Chou
Chung-Wu and Wen-Yee Chou
Dale Chow
Antonia Chu
Diana Clark
Marylin P. Clark
Dorothy Clippingdale
David Cousins
Alison Culverwell
Nancy Davidson
Judith F. Davis
James Don
Ethel and Jeffrey Doughty
Elise Drake
Sandra Drew
Morna Edmundson
Ross Fleming
Jonathan Fleming
Monika Forberger
Francesca Fung
Brian and Laverne G'Froerer
Margo Gram
Nazir Hirji
Kathy Hogarth
Yu-Hsuen Hsaio
Chian-Li Hsu
Nancy Pi-Niang Huang
Frances Hudson
Sumi Iiyoshi
Michael and Irene Jeffery
S.S. Juan
Lars Kaario
Sharman King
Wendy Klein
Joyce Tzu-Yao Ko
Jacob Kojfman
Peter Ladner
Caroline Laverock
Hui-Ying Gloria Lin
Flora Liu
Douglas Loughran
Len Lythgoe and Mary Rogers
Natalie Marach
Cherryl Masters
Charles Mayrs
John and Sarah McAlpine
Leslie Meingast
Ian Mellor
Catherine Merlin
Colin Miles
Brad Mitchell
Caroline Montgomery
Kevin Mooney
Mary Jane Morita
Karen Ng
Susan and Paul Ohanessian
Anida Olsen
Jennifer Passas
Pat and Eric Peura
Julie S. Prendiville
Andrea Ratuski
Diane L. Roscoe
Don and Ginny Russell
Annie Saumier
Jasleen Sidhu
Bernice and Ronald Slemko
Albert Somody
Gerald and Laura-Jeanne Soon
Neil and Sharon Soper
Sharon Sprinkhuysen
Shu-Ching Su
Michele Swanson
Chong Siu Tan
Andrew Taylor
Joanne Therrien
Ching Tien
Jill Tolliday
Janice Trenholme
Lung-Hsiung Tseng
Chia-Shun Tseng
Moyra Van Nus
Norma Varley
Helen Vaughan
Jose Verstappen
Steve Wang
Gayle Webster
Craig White
Christopher Whitney
Barry Yamanouchi
Charles Yang
May Yeh
George Zukerman, OC, OBC
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.”
