Your gift to the UC Davis Department of Music—and the students
and faculty at its heart—supports our extensive educational
programs and expanding facilities. Your gift furthers our
mission to provide an inspirational, personal, and unique
academic environment. To make a gift now, please contact
the Department of
Music. You may also give to the Music General
Support fund online.
The following is a list of the endowments and funds that
support various ensembles, musicians and programs.
Recital Hall Fund
The Recital Hall will be home to events presented by both the
Department of Music and the Mondavi Center for the Performing
Arts. Here is how to
give to the Music Performance Building/Recital
Hall fund online.
Symphony Endowment
The UC Davis Symphony Endowment was established by members and
friends in 1992 with the goal of assuring the orchestra’s
access to first-rate teachers and soloists, a handsome
orchestral library, and enhanced opportunities for travel.
Here is how to
give to the Symphony Endowment online.
Chorus Endowment
The University Chorus
endowment will ensure that our program can continue to
move ahead, and can continue to inspire, teach, and mold the
artistic and aesthetic temperaments of our most important
resource… our future generations. Here is how to
give to the Chorus Endowment online.
Shinkoskey Noon Concert Endowment
The fund, in memory of Joy S. Shinkoskey, supports noon and/or
performance concerts in the UC Davis Department of Music.
Valente Lecture Endowment
Awards go to undergrad Music students and visiting scholars of
the Music Department. This award funds lectures and colloquiums
geared at enriching students, faculty, and community members
throughout the academic year.
Arlie Fitch Concert Band Fund
The fund supports performances of the UC Davis Concert Band.
Empyrean Ensemble Endowment
The endowment supports the Empyrean Ensemble, which performs
new music on the UC Davis campus.
Empyrean Ensemble Fund
The fund supports the Empyrean Ensemble, which performs new
music on the UC Davis campus. Here is how to
give to the Empyrean Ensemble’s current-use
fund online.
Marta Belen Memorial Award in Music Fund
The fund supports an undergraduate award providing support for
music students that will enable them to take music lessons,
purchase sheet music, and offset the costs of their
education.
Beta Popper Memorial Fund
The Jan and Beta Popper fund supports a professorship to be
held by a faculty member in the music department who will
pursue a broad range of scholarly and creative activities that
include opera.
Al McNeil Endowment for Non-Western
Performance
The Al McNeil Endowment requests that the UC Davis Music
Department Performance Committee select the Ethnomusicological
performances to be supported by this fund, with a preference
for choral or vocal music and secondarily for instrumental
performances.
Gammel Fund
Established by Dr. Edward and Mrs. Patricia Gammel who
established the Edward and Patricia Gammel Endowed
Piano Scholarship Fund to support an
undergraduate piano student scholarship in the Department of
Music in the College of Letters and Science.
Pusateri Award
Awards from the fund are made in support of graduate students
in the Department of Physics and the Department of Music
alternately beginning with a Physics student in 2002-2003 and
continuing with a Music student in 2003-2004.
To make a gift now, please contact the Department of
Music and mention the name of the fund or endowment to which
you would like to contribute. Thank you in advance for all of
your support!
The UC Davis Symphony Endowment was established by members and
friends in 1992 with the goal of assuring the orchestra’s access
to first-rate teachers and soloists, a handsome orchestral
library, and enhanced opportunities for travel.
The fund supports noon and/or performance concerts in the UC
Davis Department of Music. Joy S. Shinkoskey was the mother
of Deborah Pinkerton and mother-in-law to Bret Hewitt. They
established an endowment to support Noon and/or Performance
Concerts in the UC Davis Department of Music located in the
Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the College
of Letters and Science.
The Empyrean Ensemble is a professional new music ensemble in
residence with the music department. Although it’s not offered
as a class for undergraduates, it does collaborate with student
musicians, usually in winter quarter. For more information
please contact the ensemble’s director, Sam
Nichols.
The Jan and Beta Popper Endowed Professorship in
Opera was established with a $500,000 bequest from
the estate of Beta Popper, who died in 2008. Beta and her
husband, the late music professor and conductor Jan Popper, spent
a lifetime together producing opera all over the world, notably
in Asia. Beta, a mezzo-soprano who performed with the San
Francisco Opera, was involved with the UC Davis Department of
Music. Jan was on the UCLA faculty, but assisted many UC
campuses, including UC Davis, as a visiting professor.
