Partners and Support
Thank you to our Partners, Sponsors and Contributors
From nursery rhymes to wedding songs and national anthems, nothing evokes deep emotion and memory like a song. Songs cross all boundaries…drawing us together in shared experience.
VISI offers intensive training for singers and teachers from across North America, lectures about global poetry and ideas, workshops for the general public in diverse song traditions, a Music Therapy symposia, and the SONGFIRE Festival of Song. The Song Institute offers a continually expanding service to the Vancouver community, a month-long immersion of courses, concerts, and conversations open to all.
VISI's annual summer sessions are made possible by the generous support of the UBC School of Music, the UBC Department of Film and Theatre and UBC Faculty of Arts and the Office of the Vice President of Research, the BC Arts Council, and City of Vancouver. Heartfelt thanks to Dr. Richard Kurth, Director, UBC School of Music; Dr. Gage Averill, UBC Dean of Arts; Dr. John Hepburn, UBC Vice President Research & International and our devoted donors, foundations, sponsors and contributors as listed below.
Thank you for joining us and for your support!
Ingrid Suderman, Chair, Board of Directors, Vancouver International Song Institute
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| The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc., established in 1996 by their daughter, Claudette Sorel, is a 501(c)(3) private foundation. Ms. Sorel was a child piano prodigy. She is the youngest graduate of The Juilliard School completing her degree at age 9. Our mission is to keep musical excellence alive and to help stretch the boundaries for women in music. | ||
Special thanks to our many donors whom we like to call VISIonaries
VIVACE ($5,000 – $10,000) – Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation
PRESTO ($1,000 – $4,999) – 6 donors
ALLEGRO ($500 – $999) – 4 donors
CANTABILE $240 – $499) – 2 donors
ANDANTINO ($100 – $249) – 20 donors
ANDANTE ($35 – $99) – 24 donors
VISI 2011 Scholarship Donors
Lloyd Burritt*, Marnie Carter*, Sylvia Crooks, In Honour of Maureen Forrester, Hillary Haggan*, The François Le Roux Scholarship donated by Richard and Nancy Self*, Keith & Laurie Switzer*, Gale Walker, In Honour of Elizabeth Ward's Birthday.
*These individuals have each generously supported a full scholarship for a VISI 2011 student.
Harold D. Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund
William & Sandra Bruneau, Irving Guttman & Robert Dales, Judith Forst, Rodney & Kathleen Glynn-Morris, Ronald Hagler,Alan & Isabel Maxwell, Christine Anton McClymont, Lindsay Stewart.
VISI is pleased to establish this Scholarship in honour of Harold D. Brown (1917 – 2011) a long-time collaborative pianist, vocal coach and music lover. Donations are encouraged.
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And to our kind friends who have given time and talent to VISI with special contributions
Charles Barber – City Opera Vancouver.
VISI wishes to acknowledge and thank Karen Argent for giving us a new website design and support, generously donating her time and effort in this gigantic and ongoing task.
We also express gratitude to our dedicated faculty who helped make VISI 2011 possible with their gracious in-kind and financial contributions.
We recognize and appreciate the universities that provided travel support to our faculty or scholarships to our participants including Duquesne University, Eastman School of Music, Oakland University, University of Manitoba, and Vanderbilt University.
VISI offers grateful thanks to the photographers who have captured the beautiful images of our program, Evan Kreider, Denis Bouvier, Shannon Lythgoe, Brent Calis, Brian Hawkes, Simon Li and John Hallet.
VISI also extends appreciation to Mark Habdas for the generous donation of the website cover photography. See more of his beautiful work at birdsphotography.com
FACULTY HOSTS
Margot Ehling
Helen and Frank Elfert
Sue Lloyd
David Meek
Sharon Meen
Kathleen Murison
Rena Sharon
Letitia Sears and John Sherman
Jane and Don Shumka
Lynn Smith and Jon Sigurdson
Keith and Laurie Switzer
Joyce Wagenaar and Marc Williams
STUDENT HOSTS
Larry Barzelai and Rhona Gordon
Elisabeth Caton
Pamela Chambers
Tama and Maurice Copithorne
Andrew and Karen Dawes
Anne and Don Graham
Dr. Mira Keyes
Marlene Legates
David Xiao
VOLUNTEERS
Maggie Burr
Elizabeth Clinton
Elspeth McVeigh
Peter Moskos & Margaret Archibald
Lydia Suderman
Milan Thiessen
Regan Thiessen
Shana White
Ailsa Zaenker
