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Your Support

Keeps the Music Playing

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Ways To Give

One-Time Gifts, Giving “Your Way”

You may give one-time (or more) financial donations to The Peninsula Music Festival.

CHOOSE HOW YOUR GIFT IS GIVEN OR USED

A tax receipt will be emailed to you.

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    In Recognition or Memoriam

    Give a special gift to the Peninsula Music Festival in fond recognition or loving memory of a friend or loved one.

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    Piano Maintenance & Improvements

    Help support the maintenance and improvement efforts necessary for the Festival’s Steinway Concert Grand Piano, a cherished find with the help of world-renowned pianist and lifelong friend of the Festival – John Browning.

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    Play On, Our Annual Campaign

    Help support the operating costs of the Peninsula Music Festival and assist with keeping ticket prices affordable.

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    The Karen Smuda Emerging Conductor Program

    Help support the Peninsula Music Festival’s Emerging Conductor Program.

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    The Thor Johnson Endowment Trust

    The Thor Johnson Endowment Trust was established to ensure the financial and artistic future of the Peninsula Music Festival. Started with a gift from the estate of founding conductor Thor Johnson, the Trust is now around 7 million dollars and invested by our partners at Congress Wealth Management in Boston, MA.

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Sustaining Committee and Volunteer Opportunities

Join us and give the gift of your time!

The Peninsula Music Festival Sustaining Committee (PMFSC), a volunteer arm of the Festival, operates as an adjunct organization to the Peninsula Music Festival, Inc. Its sole purpose is to volunteer and financially support the Festival, Orchestra, Staff, and Membership.

The Sustaining Committee meets regularly from June through August, with a special Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon in September. Members are the first to hear about the plans for the next exciting season.

SUSTAINING COMMITTEE OFFICERS

President – Linda Weisensel
1st Vice President – Gail Harrmann
2nd Vice President – Challoner Morse Brown
Treasurer – Joan Pleuss
Secretary – Raetta Mirgain

    • Hosting the post-concert reception on the opening night of the Symphony Series for sponsors, guest artists, festival orchestra members, subscribers, and sustaining committee members.

    • Transporting guest artists to and from Green Bay International Airport, rehearsals, and concert appearances.

    • Providing rehearsal break food for the orchestra and their families on concert days.

    • Acting as rehearsal monitors to ensure there are no interruptions.

    • Providing ushers and parking attendants for the annual Symphony Series.

    • Providing food for the orchestra and other attendees at the annual potluck picnic.

    • Assisting Festival administration with mailings and other office projects.

    • Meeting with new friends, including members of the Festival Orchestra and other volunteers.

    • Having fun together while supporting the preeminent classical music festival in Door County!

MEMBERSHIP DUES

Individual: $35

JOIN US! Call (920) 854-4060

If you would like to volunteer or more information, please email lisa@musicfestival.com.

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Thor Johnson Legacy Society

Current Memberships & Memorials

The Legacy Society is dedicated to the future of the Peninsula Music Festival through gifts from wills and trusts named for Thor Johnson, the Festival’s founding conductor and the first donor to the Endowment Fund.

Membership is available to anyone who informs us that they have included the Festival in their will or have made it a beneficiary of any other deferred gift.

Your Legacy Gift invested in the endowment fund (and the interest accrued) at Congress Wealth Management will only be used to continue the rich programming presented every season.

  • Tony & Priscilla Beadell
    Roger Bergen &
    Sharon Grutzmacher
    Marjorie Binder*
    John & Norma Bramsen
    John S. Browning*
    Jim & Sue Buck
    Ken & Barbara Byler*
    Richard* & Kit Conner
    Peter & Beverly Ann Conroy
    Andy Cook
    Frank Dayton
    Katherine Deutsch
    Virginia T. Eades

    Gail Fischer
    Spencer* & Barbara Gould
    Marjorie S. Grutzmacher
    Harald ‘Hal’ Halvorsen
    Mary Harrington
    George & Sue Raye Hughes
    Carl S*. & Judith A. Jackson
    John & Midge Krell*
    Irene Daniell Kress*
    Marcia Larsen*
    Charlotte Lukes
    Jerome* & June Maeder*
    Robbie Magni
    Marion Marcellus*
    Gretchen Maring*
    Mary E. McAghon*
    Marilyn McDonald
    Bruce McKeefry
    William & Diane Miller
    Armella Norton*
    Larry Parent
    John Pellegrino
    Mike & Jeanne* Schmitz
    Jerry & Karen* Smuda
    Tim & Sue Stone
    Mrs. Ernest Straubel*
    Thomas H. Sutter &
    Janet A. Bond Sutter
    Lee Traven*
    Thomas N. Turriff
    Ashton & June Waller
    Toby Wilson
    George W. Verheyden*
    RADM Philip Whitacre
    Sarah Wright

  • Orren J. ‘Brad’ Bradley
    Don Brink
    John S. Browning
    Ken & Barbara Byler
    Ginka Cohn
    Don Diekman
    Peg Egan
    Genevieve ‘Gen’ Follingstad
    Angela & Allen Frater
    Lorry Goode
    Spencer Gould
    Richard Harrington
    Sharon Holmes
    Marion Johns
    Ruth Jones
    Ted Kubicz
    Marcia Larsen

    Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Larson
    Roy Lukes
    John & Gretchen Maring
    John & Margaret Nelson
    Andrew Nocker
    George Norton
    Jon Peterson
    Lucille Pohl
    Jim Sherwood
    Karen Smuda
    Judith Ross Stevenson
    Beatrice ‘Petie’ Wilson
    Shyla Wollman
    Alice Spooner
    Virginia Terhune
    Jerome ‘Jerry’ Viste
    Toby Wilson

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