The Colorado Springs Conservatory is thrilled to be in its fifteenth year of providing outstanding arts immersion programming to the youth of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region. It is the mission of the Colorado Springs Conservatory to “inspire, challenge and motivate students to aspire to their highest potential both as artists and as human being through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.” Earlier this year it was our distinct honor and privileged to be awarded the El Pomar Foundation’s 2008 Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities.  This award heralds only the best organizations for the entire State of Colorado. The Colorado Springs Conservatory began in 1994 after Founder and Executive Director Linda Weise was approached by many of her private students wanting to pursue music at a professional level.  They were eager to know what they needed to do in order to succeed. It was while developing curriculums, creating performance opportunities, and recruiting only the finest local and regional faculty and mentors, that Linda realized how many kids would ultimately be interested in and affected by such programming.  She was committed to providing a safe, nurturing, positive, productive environment where students can explore talents, understand personal potential and achieve goals previously unrealized. Thus, the birth of the Colorado Springs Conservatory.  What has been a wonderful consequence is how greatly the community, region and state have benefitted from the Conservatory programs and student efforts as well. While the curriculum has changed and grown along side the Conservatory, the mission and core values have remained the same. For the past fifteen years, Linda and the students of the Colorado Springs Conservatory have been actively involved in the communities of Colorado Springs and surrounding areas enriching many lives, organizations and events with their music, humanity, compassion, and passion for life and the arts.  The Conservatory has graduated 100% of high school seniors to 100% of the colleges, conservatory and universities to which these student apply, many with substantial scholarship awards. It is because of our wonderful friends and donors that we are able to provide amazing opportunities to our students.  Without their benevolence and generosity of resources and spirit, without your help, we would not be able to reach so many and have such a positive impact on our students. These are today’s youth, but tomorrow’s leaders and our communities are better because of their growth, not only as artists, but as human beings that these kids achieve at the Colorado Springs Conservatory. “Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor to humanity” Zoltan Kodaly

We thank our benefactors for their support, trust and friendship.

$10,000 and up – Song Title
Bee Vradenburg Foundation - $20,000
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation - $10,000
El Pomar Foundation - $30,330
Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado - $30,986
Inasmuch Foundation - $10,000
Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation - $11,000
Dusty & Kathy Loo Fund - $10,000

$5,000 - $9,999 – Composer
Richard Fesler - $5,000
Myron Stratton Home -$7,500

$2,500 - $4,999 – Full Note
Nasit Ari & Libby Rittenberg - $3000
Norton Bain - $2,900
Central City Opera House - $4,000
Delta Solutions - $2,500
C.J. Moore - $2,819.06

$1,000 - $2,499 – Half Note
Michael & Susanne Anselmi - $1,500
James & Barbara Caro - $1,000
Classic Companies Charitable Fund - $1,000
Community Leadership Fund - $1,000
Conspire! - $1,223.75
Jerry Dickman - $1,560.00
ENT - $1,400
Giddings Foundation - $2,000
Michael & Sue Grace - $1,003.64
Dr. Susan Rae Jensen - $1,000
Kaiser Permanente - $1,000
Jim Moore - $1,400
Richard Nehring & Brooke Bower - $1,500
Northwestern Mutual - $1,000
Harlan & Alice Ann Ochs - $1,000
Pikes Peak Community Foundation - $1,000
Pikes Peak Tours & Charters, Inc. - $1,000
Red Noland Cadillac - $1,500
Bob Robards - $1,500
Timothy Rummel & Robin Johnson - $1,000
Peggy Shivers - $1,750
UBS Foundation Global Impact - $1,000
UMB Bank-Gar Anneler - $1,000
Jim Moore - $1,400
Gary Peacock/Wal-Mart - $1,800
Kelly Roth - $1,000

$500 - $999 – Quarter Note
ABC Bank - $600
Michael Carman - $500
Miriam Cavanaugh - $500
Lindsay & Joanna Fischer - $500
Hudson Capital Partners Corp - $500
John & Cathleen Marta - $500
Chuck & Mary Lou Murphy - $500
Sherri Newell - $875
Pikes Peak Opera League - $500
SuTsen & Huei-Yen Rin Pao - $500
Alan Siegel & Edie Greene - $610
Daryl & Terry Thatcher - $500
The Colorado Publishing Company - $500
Vladimir Jones - $500
Weber Street Wine & Craft Beer - $500
Pikes Peak Opera League - $500

$250 - $499 – Eighth Note
ADD Staff/Cari & Lary Shaffer - $250
Guiseppe & Suzanne Bassani - $250
Cheyenne Mountain Resort - $468.49
Tom & Tina Dewar - $250
Mary Eiber - $255.00
Martha Erhard - $250
Jerry Farney - $300
Scott Harvey - $250
Ann Kaufman & James Dostal - $350
David & Joann Supperstein - $250
Cari & Larry Shaffer - $250

Up to $249 – Sixteenth Note
Angie Adams - $100
Jody Alyn - $125
Amateur Pianist International - $100
Barbara Arnest - $75
Peter & Cynthia Aubrey - $50
Phyllis Baker - $205
Elizabeth Banta - $100
Marti Booth - $25
Janet Brickell - $25
Vicki Carlson - $100
Heather Carroll & Taylor Courey - $50
Patrick Carter & Gina Bamberger - $100
Angela Cesario - $50
C.F. & Lee Clement - $100
Michael & Susan Coumatus - $200
Diana Craft - $30
Helen Dyer - $100
Jeff Eichengreen - $50
Jeff & Tracy Fergerson - $50
Harley & Joan Ferguson - $100
Susan Flynn - $100
Dr. David & Paulette Greenberg - $100
Cynthia Griffin - $100
Sam & Mary Alice Hall - $100
Jason Hansen - $40
Richard & Cyndi Harper - $50
Alease Howard - $100
Robert Howsam & Sara Ware - $50
B.J & Kristel Hybl - $200
Intermountain Rural Electric Association - $200
Ken & Sandy Jaray - $50
Don & Gwen Jenkins - $50
Dr. Dale & Mary Kemmerer - $25
Len & Jen Koop - $100
Lorne Kramer - $150
Peter LaFosse - $30
Dennis & Carol Lanigan - $150
Josephine Lopez - $50
Matt & Tracy Mayberry - $75
Mary Ellen McNally - $100
Bill Mead - $100
Jon & Becky Medved - $200
Deb & Carl Morrow - $100
Susan Mulvihill - $75
Jeff & Jennifer Murray - $100
Mary & Edward Osborne - $100
Michael & Carol Pennica - $100
Pikes Peak Music Teachers Association - $50
Shawn Raintree - $100
Betty Jane Rickel - $100
Elizabeth & Andrew Roalstad - $20
Jeffery & Anna Robinette - $100
Craig Ross & Lisa Gonzales - $100
Randy & B.J. Scott - $100
Pam Shipp - $100
Pamela Shockley-Zalabak - $150
Murl Sickbert - $50
Herbert & Rhea Siegel - $100
Angie & Richard Sostheim - $161
Terry & Carleen Storm - $50
Paula & Daniel Strong - $25
Dan & Gail Stuart - $50
James Swan - $100
Edward Terhune - $100
Vic & Barb Tise - $100
Susan Tyson - $175
George & Sharron Waterhouse - $25
Wayne Wilkinson - $20
Kristin Woestehoff - $50
Rhea Woltman - $100