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CAMPAIGN NEWSLETTER ROCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNUS AND FORMER ROCKPORT WINTER 2018 MUSIC PRODUCTION INTERN JONATHAN PERRY just graduated from Berklee School of Music last May and is already forging an exciting career in New York City as a working musician. With his Music Business Management degree from Berklee and his experience working behind-the-scenes at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, Jonathan is equipped with the sort of multi-faceted music business savvy that gives a musician a leg up in a challenging industry. In his short time in New York so far, he has already established many connections in the music scene and currently works as a drummer for hire, playing live gigs and recording sessions with various bands in the city. He has also toured with a band, and THE CAMPAIGN © LISACZECH© has composed for TV, film, and commercials. TO ENSURE Speaking to how his connection to Rockport Music prepared ROCKPORT MUSIC’S and inspired him for his musical career, he said “it really impacted me seeing my heroes like drummer Billy Kilson FUTURE (who played in the 2012 Gala with Chris Botti) live on-stage at the Shalin Liu Performance Center!” He went on to add that it was also inspirational seeing hometown legend Paula Cole IMPACT IN ACTION STUDENT PROFILE: return to Rockport after making it big in the pop world. These experiences, as well as his time as an intern learning all facets of production – from advancing shows with artist management MESSAGE FROM THE Jonathan Perry to setting up light and audio equipment – have stayed with him CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS as he’s paved his way in the field. We look forward to seeing Starting his Musical Career where Jonathan’s career will lead him next! Let’s Make Some Noise FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU! Thank you to all who have supported Rockport Music over the years through your Supporting Music for time, your expertise, your gifts and your attendance! The success of Rockport Music over the past 36 Generations to Come years, especially since the opening of the Shalin Liu Performance Center, is something that is rare The In Concert with You campaign’s Artistic Program and powerful. We all benefit from the solid foundation set by so many Excellence Endowment initiative is quite important, over the years. We do not ever want so what does it actually do? A special thank you to our generous to forget our beginnings and all who have helped us achieve so much. Quite simply, it’s in our experience, however, it can create challenges Campaign Donors As stewards of this organization, to cover costs of maintaining the concert we know we must also look to the name. It’s in our mission; hall and presenting the breadth of concerts AS OF JANUARY 2018 future, and that future is dependent we are Rockport Music. year-round. Executive Director Tony Beadle elaborates: “To remain competitive in this on establishing an endowment This community’s love of music is the whole A Friend Richard Jewell and Elaine Champagne arts presenting world, we need the ability to IN CONCERT WITH YOU CAMPAIGN to ensure long-term financial reason for our existence. We are here to share continue presenting the highest quality of Anonymous (6) Stephen Kaloyanides, Jr. sustainability for Rockport Music it with the community – from our local Cape music while keeping prices accessible!” Jebediah Foundation, Robert Amory, Trustee Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kneisel and the preservation of the Shalin Ann neighborhoods to broader audiences Mary Barcus Anne Kubik and Michael Krupka PROGRAM EXCELLENCE Liu Performance Center. throughout New England. Right now, the It will also support the education and J.M.R. Barker Foundation Stephen and Sigrid Lindo $5,000,000 artists we present are of the highest caliber, outreach programming that provides free Ann Batchelder and Bruce Sunstein Shalin Liu After announcing the In Concert but in order to grow artistically, we need the concerts for all, programs for schoolchildren Edward and Sheila Becker Judy and Mark Lurie ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE with You campaign last June, we ability to broaden our artistic offerings. Imagine and youth, and expanding partnerships with J.J. and Jackie Bell Mary E. Malone LEADERSHIP have already reached 90% of our more commissions by leading composers leading non-profit organizations that will $3,000,000 Jill and Stephen Bell Denise Marika campaign goal. We have been with world premiere performances as well as enrich the wonderful Rockport and Cape Thatcher Bell and Victoria Weil Jeannie and Angus McIntyre reaching out to our friends, as well a broader array of programming that could Ann communities. BUILDING bring breakout artists of classical, jazz, folk Jill and Frank G. Berson, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Everett M. Morss as making new ones, sharing the We also know that we must plan for the PRESERVATION FUND* and world music. Our Artistic Director Barry Michael and Mary Ann Bresnan Eileen and Joseph Mueller $4,000,000 story of Rockport Music through future. If we experience another global Shiffman shares a few words on his vision: Lois Brynes and Serena Hilsinger Richard A. Olliver several cultivation events that financial downturn, we must ensure that Mollie and John Byrnes Patricia Petrou TOTAL included intimate performances At Rockport Music, the possibilities for we can maintain the artistic excellence that Janice Cane and Wally Hess John and Jean Rees $12,000,000 by our new Artistic Director Barry creative excellence abound. our patrons have come to expect at Rockport Robert and Deborah Cassady Mel and Martha Rosenblatt Shiffman. While we are in the final As we move forward in planning the future, Music. This Artistic Program Excellence Verne and Madeline Caviness Marietta Sackler stretch, we still have $1.2 million I want to bring to Rockport the best the world Endowment initiative is indeed ambitious, * Additional gifts may be given to the but it is absolutely necessary to keep Kathleen Sepers Cohen and Allan H. Cohen David and Marie Louise Scudder SHALIN LIU PERFORMANCE CENTER to raise to accomplish our goal. has to offer. From artists at the top of their Rockport Music relevant and thriving Stephanie and John Connaughton Ruth Shane and Barry Gartell BUILDING PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT. Often, that last push is the most career to those just being recognized, Rockport for generations to come! Linzee and Beth Coolidge Eugene and Kathleen Skrabut difficult to achieve. will be seen as a place that artists and Rev. Dr. Pamela Cooper-White Seymour and Cameron Smith managers bring their best creative projects TOP: Rockport Music’s new Artistic Director Will you help us reach this goal? and look to us as a partner in this creation. Phil and Eve Cutter Joe and Helen Soussou Barry Shiffman performing. For more information about the We hope you will consider being As custodians of the extraordinary Shalin Liu Mr. and Mrs. David Dearborn Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. Stevens BOTTOM: The quartet Brooklyn Rider providing a workshop In Concert with You Campaign, part of this important initiative to Performance Center, with our history of for the Rockport High School Orchestra at the Shalin Liu Gene and Nina Doggett Jeffrey and Naomi Stonberg contact Director of Development provide needed endowment for engaged audiences, the sky is the limit for Performance Center. Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust David and JoEllen Sweet © JON TADIELLO, Susan K. Coffin at 978.546.7391 x.113. this organization, funding that is what we can achieve together. SHARRON COHEN Linda and Michael Frieze Jolinda and Bill Taylor InConcertWithYou.org so integral to the musical lives of Phil Goldsmith and Melissa Boshco Richard and Cynthia Tennant How often do we hear – “Why don’t we have people, not just in Cape Ann or even Janet and Mark Gottesman Elliott and Antra Thrasher [insert your favorite Billboard-charting super- Rockport Music the North Shore, but in greater Alec Dingee and Susan Gray Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Van Demark star] here?” There are so many outstanding 37 Main Street Boston. Please consider being part artists we would love to feature at the Hall, Garth and Lindsay Greimann Maura Wadlinger Rockport, Massachusetts 01966 of the campaign to secure Rockport but those concerts would be financially Susanne Guyer and Thad Carpen Susan and Bill Wagner Music’s future! impossible with our limited seating capacity. Jerry and Margaretta Hausman Mitchell and Barbara Freedman Wand Mary and Jim Hayes Thi Linh and Peter Wernau STEPHEN M. BELL This fund would allow us to present some of Mary and Harry Hintlian Margaret and Chip Ziering GARTH GREIMANN those artists that have previously been out of Bernie and Lorraine Horn CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS reach due to financial constraints. With only 330 seats, our Hall offers an intimate musical InConcertWithYou.org | 978.546.7391 DONOR PROFILE: IN CONCERT WITH YOU CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Mollie & John Byrnes Preserving Stephen M. Bell, CO-CHAIR Garth Greimann, CO-CHAIR Impacting the Arts Janice Cane Our Jewel Allan H. Cohen Scene in Cape Ann Philip Cutter Keeping the Shalin Liu Nina Doggett Susanne Guyer Performance Center Mary Malone in Superb Condition Jeannie McIntyre Pamela Morss Susan Wagner IT IS NOT HYPERBOLE TO STATE THAT WE have Margaret Ziering one of the finest concert venues in the country. Tony Beadle, EX OFFICIO In just a short span of seven and a half years, Susan Coffin, EX OFFICIO the Shalin Liu Performance Center has become BOARD OF TRUSTEES an iconic Cape Ann landmark, its magnificent Susanne Guyer, CHAIR architecture and striking backdrop now instantly Stephen M. Bell, VICE CHAIR recognizable. Almost as much as the phenomenal “Finding the Rockport Garth Greimann, VICE CHAIR music it houses, the actual building has developed Though Main Street site Allan H.

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