Priorities

Your support enhances the Bienen School’s position as one of the nation’s leading music institutions by investing in these priorities:

  • Merit aid and scholarships for undergraduate and graduate performance majors, including international students, will allow the Bienen School to better compete with peer institutions for leading talent from around the world.

  • Endowment for Academic and Artistic Programming to support special initiatives including festivals, commissions, and student ensemble touring will enhance opportunities for students and faculty.

  • The training of Voice and Opera students will be strengthened through increased connections with major opera artists and professional opera companies, and the prominence of the program offers significant opportunities for enhancing the school’s visibility.

  • Endowing the Institute for New Music will enable the institute to undertake special initiatives such as festivals, lectures, guest artist residencies, and commissions of new works.

  • Endowing the Department of Music Performance will support studies in brass, jazz, percussion, piano, strings, voice, and woodwinds as well as band, choral, and orchestral conducting.

  • Endowed professorships will allow the Bienen School to recruit and retain artist-scholars who will assist in recruiting the nation’s best music students, bolstering the school’s reputation as one of the nation’s top-ranked music institutions.

  • The permanent creation of an unrestricted endowed deanship will allow the dean to focus on the school’s highest annual priorities.

Ways to Give

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“Without the merit aid I received, I would not have had access to the highest caliber professors, rigorous and rewarding musical training, and the opportunity to practice in a world-class facility.”

Brannon Cho ’17

Rogers Society

The Henry and Emma Rogers Society honors and recognizes alumni and friends who have included Northwestern in their estate plans. We are grateful to members who have designated their gifts to benefit the Bienen School of Music.

AnonymousJeanne Maxant Blanchet
Timothy Broege
David and Barbara Brubaker
Gwen Brubaker
Michael P. Buckley and Joellen Brassfield
Raymond E. Carnes
Christine Casey
Brenda Born Conklin
Joanne (Kriege) Cruickshank and Ian Cruickshank
Sally S. Dobroski
Nancy Dussault and William Valentine Mayer
Julius and Rebecca Erlenbach
Sheran K. Fiedler
Margee Filstrup and Scott H. Filstrup
Scott G. Golinkin
A. John Holstad
William T. Hopkins
Martin J. Koldyke
David Landis and Sean Dowdall
Barbara Leibundguth
Janet Tuggle Leigh
Donald V. Lincoln
Kenneth D. Lowenberg
Eric A. Lutkin
Sharon Foster Martin and R. Eden Martin
Nancy L. Meendsen
Toni-Marie Montgomery
William Allen Murdock
Muriel Cooney Nerad
Lynn M. Nothdurft
Nancy P. Orbison
Catherine White O'Rourke
Rollin R. Potter and Joanne McDade
Carolyn M. Pruyne
Dr. James Daniel Redmond and Cheryl Ann Redmond
Carole M. and Jerry N. Ringer, MD
Elizabeth B. Roghair and James E. Roghair
William E. Rosner and Linda M. Rosner
Mary Ann Novak Sadilek
Patricia Schaefer
Jeannette J. Segel
Mallory B. Thompson
Anne Sautebin Tomlinson
Sharon Mohrfeld Werner
Kiki L. F. Wilson

Donor Honor Roll

The Bienen School is grateful to all who have made donations this year. The following donors have generously given $500 or more to the school from July 2022 through December 2023.

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Elizabeth Adames 7
Ivan A. Adames 7
Benjamin C. Adams (’26 P) 7
Jennifer G. Adams (’26 P) 7
Paul Aliapoulios (’85, ’90 P) 6 7
Stephen W. Alltop ’96 DMA 5 7
Robert Altman
Alumnae of Northwestern University
American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
John L. Anderson ’76, ’77 MBA (’03 P) 7
Megan Paynter Anderson ’76 (’03 P) 7
Carol Hall Armstrong ’72
Edward A. Armstrong ’73
Mary M. Ashley ’82
Association of American Railroads
Ayco Charitable Foundation
Diane Albanito Balke ’71 MMus 7
Jon W. Balke 7
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
David Yorke Bannard ’82 MMus
Elizabeth Phelps Barber ’01, ’08 MMus, ’12 DMA 7
Gretchen Bataille 7
Eloise Pitts Batts 7
Warren L. Batts 7
J. Mitchell Beeler
Cameron Bennett
Gail J. Berenson ’67, ’68 MMus 7
Henry S. Bienen ’09 H (’19, ’25 GP) 7
Leigh Buchanan Bienen (’19, ’25 GP) 7
Claire Bienen (’19 P) 7
Jennifer Billman (’22 P) 7
Matthew Billman (’22 P) 7
Alison Brunton Blackstone 7
Franklin Blackstone III ’81 7
Shirley Borloz (’22 P) 7
Boston Foundation 7
Melanie L. Bostwick ’04 7
Anastasia Boucouras (’81 P) 7
Carol Rice Bowditch 7
James Bowditch 7
Eric N. Britton ’87 MD, ’92 GME
Leslie Drescher Britton ’85 MMus
James B. Bronk ’77 7
Suzanne Becker Bronk 7
Gwen L. Brubaker ’82 PhD 3 7
Judy Iwata Bundra ’76, ’93 MMus, PhD (’19 P) 7
Stephen J. Bundra ’76, ’85 GME (’19 P) 7
Jill E. Bunney ’97 7
Gary W. Burns 7
Michelle Miller Burns ’90 2 7
Kenneth Cahn 4 7
Drew Cahoon
James M. Caldwell ’84 MMus, DMA
Nancy J. Caldwell
Julienne Larsen Campbell ’55
Carlos A. Carbonell ’97
Joseph T. Castello ’75 MMus
Conan J. Castle ’51, ’52 MMus 7
Pegi Grossman Chapman ’73 7
Donald L. Chapman
Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation
Joni McMechan Checchia ’89
Paul Andrew Checchia ’89, ’96 GME, ’99 GME
Ellie Y. Choi ’95 7
Young Chung ’83, ’85 MD 7
Jane Circle ’81
Donna Gavin Clarke ’60
Roger M. Clarke ’60
Concerts for Seniors Inc. NFP 7
Claib L. Cook IV ’82
Barry R. Cover ’66
Mary Jo Cover
Roderick Larnell Cox ’11 MMus
Linda Tatman Crisafulli ’68, ’69 MMus 7
Peter P. Crisafulli ’68, ’70 MMus 7
Ruth Needham Crowell ’52 MMus
Joanne Kriege Cruickshank ’57, ’58 MMus 3 7
Bala Cumaresan (’24 P) 7
Patricia J. Cunningham 7
Roger R. Cunningham
Shirley Koelling Cunningham ’68 MMus
Chie Curley 7
Robert E. Curley ’56 7
Sandra Schubert Dagon ’62 7
Barbara Daly 7
George G. Daly ’65 MA, ’67 PhD 7
Keith L. Davidson 7
Jane Stowers Dean ’70 (’96 P) 2 7
Richard H. Dean ’69 (’96 P) 1 2 7
Barbara Varsik Deboer ’77 MMus, ’83 PhD 7
Barry Deboer 4 7
Deering Foundation
Jane C. Deng ’92 7
Michael C. Dennis ’97 7
Sally Seibert Dobroski 3 7
Bernard J. Dobroski ’80 PhD 4 6 7
Dolores Kohl Education Foundation
Samuel Noah Dorf ’09 PhD 7
Megan Felsburg Doud ’02 7
Nathaniel Thompson Doud ’02 7
Charles W. Douglas ’70 (’98, ’03 P) 4 7
Diane S. Douglas (’98, ’03 P) 2 7
Emily Rice Douglass ’66 7
Sean P. Dowdall 3 7
Janet Sally Dumas 7
Dan J. Duncan ’62
Jeanette Duncan
Anne Weesner Eagleton ’58 7
T. Jefferson Eby III ’80 MBA
Zartouhi D. Eby ’87 DMA
Barbara Seablom Edwards ’55 7
Julius E. Erlenbach ’72 MMus, PhD 3 7
Rebecca Jane Erlenbach 3 7
Gary M. Esayian (’19 P) 7
Evanston Community Foundation
Julie Ferrell Farrell ’01 7
Timothy R. Farrell ’02 7
Daniel Feldstein (’23 P) 7
Brooke Von Gillern Fermin ’99 7
David R. Fermin ’98 7
Edith G. Fessler
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Sheran K. Fiedler ’74 MMus, ’82 PhD 3 7
Margee Filstrup 2 3 7
Scott H. Filstrup ’65, ’67 MBA 2 3 7
Selme Finnie (’16 P) 7
Shaun Finnie ’95 MBA (’16 P) 2 7
Deborah Fowler (’23 P)
James Fowler (’23 P)
Frank H. Philbrick Foundation
Erin R. Freeman ’95
Marcia Lynn Friedl 7
Korine Fujiwara ’89
Anne Lawrenz Geissinger ’69 MMus
Susan Nigro Gelsomino ’73, ’74 MMus
Sarah Elizabeth Generes
George & Arlene Rusch Memorial Foundation
Felicia Lynn Gerber Perlman ’92 JD (’23 P) 7
Michelle M. Gerhard ’82 7
Alan Glen Gibson ’82 7
Linda Laird Giedl ’69 MMus 7
Martha Schmaling Gilmer ’78
William White Gilmer ’80 MMus
Katie Isaak Ginsberg ’89 (’15, ’16 P) 7
Peter Ginsberg ’84, ’89 JD (’15, ’16 P) 7
Jerry Borchers Glennie ’53 7
Flavia Golden (’23 P) 7
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Cynthia Garland Goldring ’68 MA/MS, ’76 MBA
Norman M. Goldring
Scott G. Golinkin ’74, ’75 MMus 3 7
Howard L. Gottlieb (’99 GP) 7
Donald N. Gray ’67 MMus, ’72 DMA 7
Scott M. Green ’77 7
Byron L. Gregory ’66, ’69 JD 3 7
Susan Gregory 7
Alan C. Gregory ’71 7
Barbara Greis 2
Kay Griffel ’60 7
Giancarlo Guerrero ’92 MMus (’22 P) 7
Carol Shepard Gutknecht ’68 MMus
Beth Rubinstein Hart ’62
David Churchill Hart ’62
Craig R. Hassler ’63 4 7
Beth A. Hebert ’72, ’73 MA/MS 7
Katherine Fisher Heeren ’63 7
Barry S. Herbert ’74
Elizabeth Ames Herbert ’74
Emilee Griffin Hervey ’76, ’77 MMus 7
Richard L. Hervey ’74 MA 7
Lisa K. Hightower ’78 3
Arthur J. Hill 7
Phyllis A. Hill ’58
Tracy L. Hoffman ’83
Jackie Holland 7
James M. Holland ’54 MD (’86 P) 7
A. John Holstad ’62 MMus, ’74 DMA 3 7
Esther Holt
Deborah G. Horwitz ’69 MA (’04 P)
Elizabeth Schroeder Hough ’94 MBA (’21 P) 7
Stephen C. Hough ’99 MBA (’21 P) 7
James R. Irwin ’51, ’52 MMus 7
Michael R. Jacobson (’13 P) 7
Elaine Kondelis Jaharis ’81 (’17, ’18 P) 7
Steven M. Jaharis (’17, ’18 P) 7
Jaharis Family Foundation Inc
James M. and Nancy J. Caldwell Revocable Trust
Casey B. Jenkins ’00
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Doris J. Johnson ’55 MA/MS, ’71 PhD 7
Jeraldine Sloan Johnson ’68 MMus
Nea D. Johnston ’78, ’87 MBA 7
Peter J. Jorgensen ’57 4 7
JP Morgan Charitable Giving Fund
Becky Fisher Karsh ’08
Jason Karsh
S. Jay Kennedy ’73, ’74 MMus 7
Andrew John Kim ’11 7
Maria Isabel Kisel ’05 MA, ’08 PhD 7
Elizabeth Torrey Knodel ’58 (’87, ’92 P) 4 7
William C. Knodel ’61 (’87, ’92 P) 4 7
Deborah Katz Knowles ’77, ’78 MMus 7
Charlie Weaver Kobida 7
Daniel Kobida ’63 7
Dolores Kohl Kaplan 2 3 7
Lawrence Kohn 7
Denise Kohn-Staehli 7
Karen Koronkowski 7
Kelly L. Kuhn ’87 7
Sherry Henry Kujala ’85 MMus, ’90 MBA 7
Walfrid Eugene Kujala 6 7
Kurt G. Lageschulte ’91 (’27 P) 7
Kathleen Foyt Lamkin ’72 MMus, ’81 DMA
David L. Landis ’78 3 7
Katharine Lockwood Lang 7
Ron Lang 7
Virginia Croskery Lauridsen ’82, ’87 MMus 7
Paul J. Lee ’92
Marc D. Levy ’82 7
Michael Li (’22 P) 7
Bin Li (’26 P)
Gerrie Liaw ’00 7
Grace Lim (’24 P) 7
John Lim (’24 P) 7
John V. Lim ’87
Chengpin Lin (’26 P) 7
Donald V. Lincoln ’57 3 7
Deborah Tuchler Linder ’94 7
Jeffrey Arthur Linder ’92, ’97 MD 7
David Loebel ’72, ’74 MMus 7
Robert A. Long ’81 4 7
Sheryl Loyd Long ’81 7
Yinhui Lou (’22 P) 7
Eric A. Lutkin 3 7
Andrea Swanson Magee ’05
Glen I. Magee ’02
Nancy Tims Magill ’86 MMus 7
R. Hugh Magill 7
Mary Crawford Mark ’73 (’08 P) 7
Michael S. Mark ’72, ’73 MMus (’08 P) 7
Michael C. Markovitz 7
Barbara Wood Marsh ’57 7
Brian G. Marshall ’94
Sarah Graham Marshall ’98
Stacey Anne Marshall (’23 P) 7
Paul A. Martin ’85
Rosemaria Martinelli ’82, ’82 MMus 7
Jane C. Marvine ’75, ’77 MMus (’04 P)
Holly L. McClintock (’09 P) 7
Kennon D. McClintock 7
McClintock Family 2008 Irrevocable Trust
Marilyn McCoy 7
Carole P. McMahon ’97
John P. McMahon
Christine McQuinn 7
Robert E. McQuinn 7
Anton Mestek Jr. ’85
Est. Alvis J. Meyer ’46 4 7
Boo Miller ’62
Don E. Minaglia ’56, ’60 MMus
Parinaz Mirfakhraie (’26 P) 7
Rafiq R. Mohammadi ’06 MBA 7
Toni-Marie Montgomery 3 7
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Joe Moskal 7
Elizabeth Schlecht Murrill ’71 (’08 P) 7
Stephen R. Murrill (’08 P) 7
Vaithehi Muttulingam (’24 P) 7
Nea Denise Johnston Revocable Living Trust
Negaunee Foundation
Amy Schlichtemeier Neumeister ’96
Paul A. Nierman ’76 MBA (’04 P)
James R. Olin Jr. ’76 (’04 P)
Justine O'Malley ’96, ’04 MBA 7
Nancy P. Orbison ’75, ’81 MMus 3 7
Catharine White O'Rourke ’73 MMus 3 7
Gregory M. Outwater ’95 7
Art Pancoe ’51 MS (’09, ’13 GP) 4 7
Roger E. Parris ’73
Doris Nielsen Payne ’60 3 7
Bonita Berning Paynter ’72, ’74 MBA 7
Jon K. Peck 7
Davin E. Peelle ’03 7
Jennifer Harris Peelle ’02 7
Linnea Marie Perelli-Minetti ’09 7
Michael A. Perlman ’00 MBA (’23 P) 7
Linda Wagoner Perry ’62, ’64 MMus 7
Anne Marie Person ’84
Frederick Pierce 7
Julia Chung Pierce ’84, ’85 MMus 7
Danielle Briona Pindar ’18
Betsey Nodler Pinkert (’06 P) 3 7
Dale R. Pinkert ’64 (’06 P) 3 7
Benjamin A. Pontano 7
Presser Foundation
Guy J. Raymaker 7
Helen Jang Raymaker ’86, ’86 MBA 7
Jack H. Reiske ’56, ’57 MS, ’62 PhD 7
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Rice Family Foundation
Carole Merrick Ringer ’60, ’61 MMus 2 3 7
Jerry Ringer 3 7
Dale Robertson (’22 P) 7
Stephen Roche 3
Jeanne-Marie Bondurant Rogers ’86
Elizabeth B. Roghair 3 7
James E. Roghair 3 7
Debbie Culver Rohwer ’89
Mark E. Rohwer ’89
Julianne Romeo ’82 7
Alexander I. Rorke ’75, ’75 MA 2 7
Elizabeth Sturgeon Rorke 2 7
Lisa Bohnert Rose ’04 MMus
Aviva Fisher Rosenberg ’00 JD (’27 P) 7
Pinchas P. Rosenberg ’96, ’01 MD (’27 P) 7
Russ W. Rosenzweig ’93 7
Linda Rosner (’05, ’07, ’10 P) 3 7
William E. Rosner ’75, ’76 MBA (’05, ’07, ’10 P) 3 7
James M. Roth ’82 7
Molly D. Roth 7
Jessica Rothstein (’27 P) 7
Carl E. Rudiger 7
Jeanne Kurtzon Rudiger ’63 7
Patrick G. Ryan ’59, ’09 H 1 3 7
Shirley Welsh Ryan ’61, ’19 H 3 7
Mary Ann Novak Sadilek ’61, ’61 MMus 3 7
Joan Bainbridge Safford ’76 JD 7
Saint Paul Foundation
Kavin Sampson ’75, ’76 MMus
Dean H. Sayles ’60, ’60 MMus (’85 P) 7
Martha Stickney Sayles ’60 (’85 P) 7
Patricia Schaefer ’51 3 7
Horst P. Schastok 7
Sara L. Schastok 7
Michael H. Schill 7
Nancy Gorgol Schkurman ’72 MMus
Elizabeth Runnette Schroeder ’59 (’21 GP) 7
Schwab Charitable Fund
David G. Schwaegler ’67, ’68 MMus
Katherine Scott ’07
Kingsley G. Sears Jr. ’49 7
Lurline Willis Sears 7
Carole Browe Segal ’60 3 7
Gordon I. Segal ’60 1 3 7
Jeannette Junk Segel ’70 2 3 7
Christina Conway Shaver ’97 7
Jonathan F. Shaver ’98 MBA 7
Ellen Shaw 7
Lowell E. Shaw ’51, ’56 MMus 7
Katherine Black Shields ’79
Shirley C. Shriver 7
Debra Siegel ’84 PhD
Todd A. Smith ’73 MBA 2 7
Bradford L. Smith ’88
Jeannine Smith
Lawrence R. Smith ’54, ’55 MMus
Smith Family Foundation
Jane Arries Solomon 7
Joann Meyer Sonnen ’53
Trine J. Sorensen-Jacobson (’13 P) 2 7
Shakila Marie Stahl 3 7
Stephen M. Stahl ’73, ’75 MD 3 7
James E. Stanfield ’94 (’26 P)
Jennifer Donegan Stanfield ’94 (’26 P)
Gail Ayres Steinmetz ’70 3 7
William C. Steinmetz ’74 MBA 2 3 7
James R. Stevens Jr. ’77 JD (’04 P) 7
Jennifer M. Stevens (’04 P) 7
Aric L. Stock ’90 7
Karen Mellow Stock ’90, ’91 7
Michael Stodd ’85 MMus 7
Josefien Stoppelenburg 7
David R. Storch ’06 7
Richard Strachan 7
Kenneth D. Suh ’99
Andrea Amdahl Taylor ’95 MMus 7
Mark Amdahl Taylor ’95 MMus 7
Elinor R. Thaviu 7
Charles R. Thomas 7
Jacalyn Thompson (’08 P) 7
William Thompson (’08 P) 7
Tichio Family 7
Dennis Tighe
Alice Welch Tolley ’60 MMus 7
William G. Tonkin ’65
Thomas J. Tropp Jr. ’14 DMA 7
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios ’63 MMus 7
Nicole Aaron Wagener ’97
William H. Wagener ’97
Robert W. Waldele ’72
Adair L. Waldenberg ’72 7
Avonelle Stevenson Walker ’62 MMus 7
Michael B. Wallace ’91 7
Eugene Walters (’26 P) 7
Janice Schroeder Weiland ’79 MBA 7
David B. Weinberg 1 7
Lynne Mesirow Weinberg 7
Jon D. Wenberg ’90, ’92 MMus 7
Anne E. Wharton ’79
Robert P. Willig Jr. ’74
Kristina Follrath Wilson ’74 MMus 3 7
Winning Ways Foundation
Darren Wu ’93 MMus 7
She-e Wu 5 7
Carol Yampolsky 7
Victor Yampolsky 6 7
Jonathan Blake Yarbrough ’06 7
Arthur Yee (’23 P) 7
Weilin Yih (’26 P) 7
Est. Joseph Zawistowski 4 7
Jun Zhang (’26 P)
Ling Zhao-Markovitz ’89 MMus 7
Barbara Hatley Zima ’53, ’56 MMus
Connie Zyer (’08 P) 7
David E. Zyer ’99 MBA (’08 P) 7

1 Northwestern Trustee 
2 Music Advisory Board
3 Rogers Society
4 Deceased
5 Current Bienen School Faculty
6 Emeriti Bienen School Faculty 
7 Lutkin Society

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