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Event sponsorships offer significant recognition opportunities
for individuals and corporations, while supporting student programs.

EVENT SPONSORSHIP

Event sponsorships offer significant recognition opportunities
for individuals and corporations, while supporting student programs.

Sponsorship opportunities include:

  • San Diego Youth Symphony Concerts
  • Encore! Annual Scholarship Fundraiser
  • ChIMES Family Festival

For more information, please contact Individual Giving Manager, Terry Williams at twilliams@sdys.org or 619-233-3232 x160.

Corporate Event Sponsorship Packages typically include:

  • Acknowledgement of sponsorship with logo placement in concert program
  • Verbal acknowledgement from the stage
  • Acknowledgement on signage in lobby venue and in screen TV, where applicable
  • Acknowledgement on our website
  • Acknowledgement on concert tickets
  • Acknowledgement on social media and web listings
  • Acknowledgement on concert postcard
  • A quantity of tickets for sponsors use
  • Access to post-concert VIP receptions, where applicable
  • Product placement or exhibit opportunities

ENCORE! 2024 SCHOLARSHIP FUND

April 28, 2024 at 4 pm
Performing Ensembles: SDSY Orchestras and Bands

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Celebrate with us at Paradise Point Resort!
Since 1945, SDYS has worked to provide outstanding music education experiences to any qualified student, regardless of their ability to pay. The Encore! Scholarship Fund provides tuition scholarships, sponsored lessons, instrument loans plus repair and supplies, performance clothing for students in need, parent education workshops, and recruitment activities in underserved communities.

Support A Student

Tuition for one student is usually $1,000 and every gift helps! Please consider a recurring gift in quarterly or monthly installments to support scholarships all year long.

Donate to the Encore Fund

Join the 2024 Encore! Honorary Committee

Purchase a ticket at the Gold Level ($500) and become a member of our Encore! Honorary Committee. You’ll receive special recognition, premier seating, and your name printed in the invitation.

Gold Level tickets: $500 (tax-deductible portion $400)
Silver Level tickets: $300 (tax-deductible portion $220)

Purchase Encore Tickets

For more information or to make a gift, please contact SDYS Individual Giving Manager Terry Williams, at twilliams@sdys.org.

Thank you to our 2023 Encore! Honorary Committee Members

Dick Ahlborn Dr. Usha Gupta Dr. Lina Schein
Dr. Louis Alpinieri Susan & Mark Hennenfent Margaret & Neal Schmale
Drs. Gigi & Inder Anand Paula Taylor & Bernie Kulchin Jeanette Stevens
Maurine Beinbrink Sonia E. Kuster Armi & Al WIlliams
Mark Bennett Marilyn Lindberg Phyllis Yates
Regina Buckley Anni & Arthur Lipper James Ziegler
Eric Cohen & William Coltellaro John Alexander & Johnny Lipsey
Anna Curren Tina Dyer & Steve McCann
Kathleen Delaney & John Farkas Madoka Nadahara
Dr. Irma Gigli Bart McCleskey & Archie Palencia
Dr. Cindy & Tom Goodman Barbara Riis
Sue Greenway Phyllis & David Sarkaria

THE ENCORE FUND

Designed to Promote Student Success

For nearly 80 years, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has invested in the future of thousands of young people through the study and performance of music. Through our Youth Orchestra program in historic Balboa Park, community outreach programs across San Diego County, and early childhood music curriculum, we are San Diego’s most comprehensive provider of cradle-to-college music education. At SDYS, we serve thousands of student musicians and their families every year, using music as a vehicle to give young people the social, emotional, and academic skills that prepare them to enter a 21st-century workforce. No qualified student is ever turned away for financial reasons: families who cannot afford to pay are given comprehensive support through The Encore Fund.

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WHAT IS THE ENCORE FUND?

The Encore Fund goes even further by providing more comprehensive assistance designed to promote student success.

 In addition to direct tuition assistance, your investment in the Encore Fund provides:

  • Group or private lessons free of charge
  • Instrument loans to students who need them
  • Free instrumental supplies, cases and repairs
  • Performance clothing to students who don’t have formal wear
  • Free concert tickets to scholarship families
  • Parent engagement programs and a parent liaison position
  • Community-based programs that bring music into our schools

How does this help?

  • Students who receive assistance through the Encore Fund have a better chance
    of advancing through our program at the same or similar rate as their peers.
  • It makes SDYS more reflective of the communities we serve and builds bridges
    between our programs.

For more information, contact SDYS Individual Giving Manager Terry Williams, at twilliams@sdys.org or call 619-233-3232 x116.

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BRAVO!

Bravo! is a membership group that supports our community’s most talented young musicians.
Bravo! members recognize both the talent and achievement of these young musicians and offers them vital support.

ABOUT BRAVO!

Bravo members are passionate donors to San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) who believe that music education is a doorway to opportunity for children, and that every child deserves access to quality programs. Our goal is to reach 100 members to raise $40,000 annually to support SDYS programs in Balboa Park and SDYS’ neighborhood engagement strategies throughout San Diego County.

Benefits:

  • Invitations to three Socials each season. These intimate performances feature some of our most accomplished musicians in premier venues. Guests enjoy small bites and wine upon arrival, and a reception following the performance with coffee and dessert.
  • Preferred seating at all SDYS concerts.
  • Friendship with other Bravo! members who believe in the lifelong value of music education.

Membership:

Silver members: $400 single/$800 dual
(Tax deductible portion $325 single/$650 dual)

Gold members: $600 single/$1200 dual • Gold members receive ticket(s) to all SDYS ticketed concerts.
(Tax deductible portion $400 single/$800 dual)

Interested in becoming a Bravo! member?

Please contact Anna Lee Fleming, Individual Giving Assistant; afleming@sdys.org, x116 to learn more and become a member. New members are offered a prorated membership fee for the first year, and may renew annually in July.

Monthly installments are now available for Bravo! memberships. Please contact Anna Lee to learn more or sign up for a recurring gift!

To renew or upgrade your membership to Bravo!, click the button below:

Renew Bravo! membership

BRAVO! MEMBERS

Thank you to our Bravo! Corporate Members:

Announcing a New Season of Socials
(formerly musicales)

We’re mixing it up with new dates and times! The first Social is a Saturday at 2pm, the second is a Sunday Brunch at 11am, and the third is a Sunday at 2pm!

  • Saturday, October 7, 2023
    2:00-4:30pm
    Private home in Rancho Santa Fe
  • Sunday, January 21, 2024
    11:00-1:30pm – Brunch
    The Thursday Club in Point Loma
  • Sunday, February 25, 2024
    2:00-4:30pm
    The Jai at The Conrad in La Jolla

BRAVO! SOCIAL GALLERY

February 25, 2024 | The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
Generously underwritten by Gail Dunham & Phyllis Yates

BRAVO! SOCIAL GALLERY

January 21, 2024 | The Thursday Club
Generously underwritten by Phyllis Yates

BECOME A MUSIC MAKER!

A recurring giving program at San Diego Youth Symphony

Support our Students and Programs all year long.

Did you know that recurring gifts make even more of a difference? Monthly or quarterly gifts make a big impact in the everyday music education of our young musicians, all year round.

Why should you make a recurring gift?

  • Sustained Impact – Your gift goes further to support our student musicians.
  • Year-long Support – Keep the music going with a gift that gives all year.
  • Convenience – Set up automatic payments and cancel anytime. It’s easy!

How does your recurring gift help?

For just a few dollars a month, you will help young people in our community have access to an instrument, weekly ensemble instruction, supplemental music programs, and so much more.

  • $5/month can provide one music stand or chair for a student
  • $10/month can provide two private lessons for a tuition assistance student
  • $25/month can provide an instrument for a beginner student

To join Music Makers today, click the button below:

Make a Reoccurring Gift

Thank you to our Recurring Donors!

Maurine Beinbrink
Karen & James Botticelli
Ed & Sara Franqui
Dr. Allan & Lesia Goetz
Megan & Allan Matthew
Andrew Williams
Anni & Arthur Lipper
Pamela Limneos
Frank Megna
Jon Gilbreath

You can cancel or change your gift at any time. Gifts may be made monthly or quarterly.
After making a recurring gift, your scheduled gifts will be charged on the same day of the month as your first gift.

For more information, please contact Anna Lee Fleming, Individual Giving Assistant, afleming@sdys.org or 619-233-3232 ext:116.

Thank you!