Supporting Early Musicians in Need


The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on arts and culture, causing waves of cancellations and resulting in financial stress for many early musicians.

Starting in March 2020, EMA and Gotham Early Music Scene partnered to promote a relief fund through which early musicians received, on a first-come, first-served basis, a check for $250. These mini-grants set an example of community spirit and provided some hope in a time of turmoil for musicians’ livelihoods, artistic expression, and security. The Relief Fund was reopened briefly in 2021 and 2022 to address ongoing needs.

While the Relief Fund may now be closed as artists, ensembles, and organizations recover, Early Music America stands ready to aid the early-music community in the future, when the need arises. EMA expresses tremendous thanks to the nearly 450 donors who made this fund possible by raising a total of $140,000, listed below.

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Thank you, Relief Fund Donors!


John Adams
Rodge & Ruth Adams-In honor of Lyle Nordstrom
J. Winthrop Aldrich
Jennifer Alexander-Hill
Alkemie
Eileen Allen
Lisa Allen
Meryl Altman
American Bach Society
Thomas Anastasio & Virginia Scott Jenkins
Marilyn Anderson
Philip Anderson
Anonymous-In honor of Neil McIntyre, Jr.
Anonymous-In honor of Elizabeth MacIntyre
Anonymous-In honor of Patricia Keating
Anonymous-In honor of Tom Moore
Anonymous-In honor of Jason Yoshida
Anonymous-In memory of Michael Jaffee
Anonymous-In memory of Janet Haas
Anonymous-In memory of Andy
Anonymous (16)
Joan Arrowsmith
Ars Musica Chicago
Erica Babad
Douglas R. Bailey-In memory of Dianne A. Brehmer
Cathy Barbash
Shepard Barbash-In honor of Lillian Barbash
Susan Barbash
Donna Bareket Breitzer
Louise Basbas
Jeff & Beth Bauer
Janet Becker
Jessica Beebe-In memory of Michael McCraw
Benevity
Matthew Bengtson
Sophie Benn
Cheryl Bensman-Rowe
Tamara Bernstein
R. Stephen Berry
Ann Bies
Bryan Bingham
Irmgard Bittar
Alexander Blachly & Mary Anne Ballard
Stephen Bloch & Deborah Peters
Dan Bloomberg & Irene Beardsley
Jesse Blumberg & Johanna Novom
Christopher M. Bone
Boulder Bach Festival
George S. Bozarth-In honor of Hannah & Murray Friedman
Joyce Brewster-In memory of Margriet Tindemans
Dan Brielmaier
DeeDee & John Brinkema
Karin Brookes
Angela Brown
Catherine Brown
Jennifer Williams Brown
Lisa Bueno
Richard Bunbury
Maggie Burk
Jennifer Burke
Laurie & John Camm
Keiran Campbell
Hillary Canada
Shannon Canavin
Ethalinda KS Cannon
Daryl Caplan
Ian Capps & Jeannette Johnson
Barbara Carboni
Zachary Carrettin
Leana Carrillo
John Cash
John Cassidy-In memory of John Francis Cassidy
Carey Cates
Tina Chancey-In memory of Scott Reiss
Barbara Chin
Ellen Chuse
Henry Clapp
Linda Clifford
Shannon Cline
Joel H. Cohen
Kathryn Cok
Maria & Charles Coldwell
Alex Cone
Jeanne Rizzo Conner-In memory of Felice Rizzo & Terry Voila
Jerry Cooper
Donna Copeland
Jason Cornwell
Nora Cole
Tracy Elizabeth Cowart
Kelsey Cowger-In honor of Anne Timberlake
Sarah Elizabeth Cranor
Penelope Crawford
Deborah Crimmins
Mark Cudek
Conrad Cummings & Robert Katz
Julie E. Cumming
Ceci Dadisman
Robert Dahl & Janice Aber
Jeff Dailey
Cynthia Danza
Martha W. Davidson
Nancy L. Davis
Felix Deak
Allan J. Dean
David Dean
Linda Dempf
Craig Dorschel
Thallis Hoyt Drake
Stan & Gail Dryden-In honor of Dashon Burton
Ross Duffin & Beverly Simmons
Yves Dujardin
Benjamin Dunham
Jonathan Dworkin
Susannah Edmonds-In memory of Thomas Binkley
JoLynn Edwards
Zen Edwards
Victor Eijkhout-In memory of Elisabeth Maria Cecilia Eijkhout-Lambooij
Greer Ellison
Robert Erenburg
Raymond Erickson
Todd Estabrook
Don G. Evans
Peter & Joan Faber
Thomas Faber
Facebook
Ellen A. Farrell
Mike Ferretti
Elizabeth Field
George & Rose Ann Findlen
Karen l. Findling
Karen Fox Fischer
Liam Flaherty
Richard Forde-In honor of Harriet Feinberg
Deborah Fox
Paulina Francisco
Julia Frank
Samantha Franklin
Nancy Frederick
Nancy Freudenthal
Jane Furth
Frederick K. Gable

Christine Gaeto
Wendy Gale
Janet Gallagher
Ashley Gant
Lei Gao
Allen Garvin
Joseph Gascho
Ellen George
Ankur Ghosh
Dominic Gregory Giardino
Janice Giardino
Gallya Gordon
Katherine Gottschalk
Geoffrey Gowan
Daniel G. Green
Nancy Greenbaum
Wendy L. Greene
Helen L. Greer
Diane Grover
Laury Gutiérrez
Melanie Linn Gutowski
Arthur Haas
Eric Haas
Mark & Cheri Haines
Barbara Hamilton
Laura Hamilton
Elizabeth B. Hardy
Terry F. Hare
Christopher Haritatos & Boel Gidholm
Arreon Harley-Emerson
Ronald & Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Slayde Hawkins
Peter Hayes-In honor of Patricia Keating
Elizabeth Hays
Paul Hecht
Anne Heider & Steve Warner
Jean M. Hein
Wendy Heller & Jack Hill
Ronnie Hess
James & Ina Heup-In honor of Cheryl & Paul Rowe and the Madison Early Music Festival
Linda L. Hill
Richard S. Hoffman
Frima Fox Hofrichter
Katy Homans
Jessica Honigberg
Heather Hostetler
Marika Fischer Hoyt
Martha Hsu
Phillip R. Hughes
Priscilla H. Hunt-In memory of Jennifer Hunt
Jonathan Ivers
Corey Jamason
Scott Allen Jarrett
Susan Jarrett
Christine Jay
Patricia Jennerjohn
Daniel M. Johnson
Timothy G. Johnson
Nicholas Jones
Stephanie Jones
Jeffrey Jones-Ragona
Benjamín Juárez Echenique
Philip Just
Jeffrey Kahn
Patricia A. Keating
Nina S. Key
Joan Kimball
Susan Kirshner
Laura Klehr-In memory of Scott Reiss
Judith Klotz
Sue Koehler
Diane Kolin
Scott-Martin Kosofsky
John Kouros
Andrew William Koutroubas
Richard Kramer
Karen Krueger
Coppelia M. Kuramata-Eder-In memory of Akira Kuramata
Kara Kvilekval
John Lacombe
Carole Lalli
Steven Lanser
Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann-In memory of Margriet Tindemans
Emily Lau
Philip Le Quesne
Frank & Patricia Lenti
Larry Lesniak
Monica Jakuc Leverett
Joan Levine-In honor of Marjorie Forbes
Catherine Liddell
Ariadne Lih-In honor of Grant Herreid
John Lindow
Jeffrey Liszt-In memory of Beverly Head
Augusta Jane Lodge
Georgina Lodge
Nancy Long
Graham Lord
Phillip Lordo
Los Angeles Baroque
Joan Lounsbery
Andrew Lovett
Anna Lysack
Candace Magner
Judith A. Malafronte
Jeffrey Mandula
Angela Mariani
Carol Marsh
Dana Marsh
Ava Mason
Randall Matamoros & Nancy Wilkinson
Nancy Matthews
Linda Mauck
Holly Maurer
Evy Mayer
Jack Mazelis
Helen McConnell
David R. McCormick
Lenora McCroskey
Gaye McNutt
Margery Meadow
Robert Mealy
David Means & Sandy Strand
Barbara Mehlman
Catharina Meints Caldwell-In memory of James Caldwell
Sharon Meresman
Charles J. Metz
Colin Mew
Miriam Michel-In memory of The New York Pro Musica
Ruth Milburn
Kyle Miller
Philip Mindlin-In honor of John Gerlach
JT Mitchell
Michael D. Moore-In memory of Heinrich Schütz
John Moran & Risa Browder
Martin Morell
Stefanie Moritz
Shannon Morris
Barry R. Moyer
Kathy & Alan Muirhead
Joanna Mulfinger
James Mullen
Garrett Murphy-In honor of Scott Jarrett
Gene Murrow-In memory of Judith Davidoff
Erin Muske-In honor of Nicholas Lockey
Jessica Myers-White

Rodney & Barbara Myrvaagnes
Keith Neisler
Elizabeth Neuse
Charlotte Newman
Emlyn Ngai
Michael Nicholsen
Kim Noltemy
Lyle & Patricia Nordstrom
Frank Nowell & Julie Parsons
Lillian Nye
Flory Nye-Clement
Allison Nyquist
Guido Olivieri
Melinda P. O’Neal-In memory of Fiora Contino
John Orrison
Susan Ott
Monika Otter
Karen Webb Owen-In honor of The Newberry Consort
Richard & Lois Pace
Reynaldo Patiño
Scott Pauley
Gary & Zoraida Payne
Benjamin Peck & Valerie Horst-In memory of Paul Echols
Martie Perry
Louise Pescetta
Elizabeth Peters
Patricia Petersen & Douglas Young
Jeanette Pfaff
Elizabeth V. Phillips
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band
Steven Plank
Neal Plotkin & Deborah Malamud
Genevieve Pluhowski
John Pringle-In memory of Howard Smither
Patrick Dupre Quigley
Nick Quintana
Paul Rabin & Arlene Snyder
Byron Rakitzis
Aditya N. Ranganath
Red Oak Foundation
Craig Resta & Jay White-In honor of George R. Gregory
Eric & Anne Rice
Thomas Richards
John & Susan Richmond
Jean Richter
Lee Ridgway
Michael O. Rigsby
Stanley Ritchie
Fred Roden
Miguel A. Rodriguez
Benjamin & Jennifer Roe-In honor of Rachell Ellen Wong
Maria Romero Ramos
Donald Rosenberg
Norma Rosenberg
Thomas Rosenthal
Lois Rosow
Paul & Faina Ross-In memory of Judson Griffin
Suzanne Rousso

John Mark Rozendaal
Adriana Ruiz
Harry Saltzman
Sally Sanford-In memory of George Houle
Abraham A. Santiago, Jr. &
Suellen Eslinger
Ed Schemitsch
Byron Schenkman
Elliot Schnapp
Douglas Schoppert
Olivia Scott
Douglas Sears
David Seebaugh-In memory of Edward Tarr
Elizabeth Segal
Grace Seiberling
Gal Shaya
Dennis Sherman
Paul Shipper
Daniel Shoskes
Amanda Sidebottom
Andrew Sigel
Marlene Sigman
Evelyn B. Simon
Reeves Smith
Judith R. Smutek
Alan Sobkowiak
David Solet
Kathleen Moretto Spencer
Roma Sprung
Rebecca Stay
Cathy Meyer Stein
Mr. Bill Stewart & Mr. David Stein
Ann Stickney
Kay Stimson
Mary Stoffel & Rich Novotney-In honor of Cheryl Bensman-Rowe & Paul Rowe
Caroline Sykes-Lorenz
Lee Talner
Derek Tam
Andie Taras & Tony Elitcher
Fred Tempas
Texas Toot Early Music Workshop Board of Directors & Staff
The Roxanne & Henry Brandt Foundation
The Viktor Kalabis & Zuzana Ruzickova Foundation
Melissa & James Thomson
Michael Thorne & Leila Shakour
Anne Timberlake
Kiri Tollaksen
Nancy Tooney
Thomas Tropp
Hasan Tuluy
Laura Usiskin
Ann Valdes
Ruben Valenzuela
Stephanie Vial
Sara Vicinaiz & Erik Anderson
Michael Walker
Carolyn M. Wallace
Jim Wanner
Robert Warner-In honor of Augusta Jane McKay Lodge
Amy Warren
Ralph Westerhoff
Leslie Wheeler
Jane Whitehall
Dana Whiteside
Bob Wiemken
Christopher Williams
Eunice Williams
Elena Williamson
Andrew Willis
Kevin Wilson
Carolyn Winter
Daniel Wolfe
Beverly Woodward
Nancy Workman
Lucy Renee Wortham
Elisabeth Wright
Vicki Wurman
Nancy Yousef
Lawrence Zukof & Pamela Carley
Nancy Zylstra

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