Donor News

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Pool Family Gives Generous Estate Gift for Piano Majors and the Oregon Marching Band
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Vintie Beall's Legacy: 100 Years of Music at Beall Hall

A century of music resonates within Beall Concert Hall, yet its namesake, Robert Vinton "Vintie" Beall Jr., a deaf 1897 alumnus of the University of Oregon, never heard its melodies.

Sound Investment
For Mark and Mari Dembrow, supporting students means more than just money.
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Oregon Bach Festival remembers Lilah Stangeland
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Murdock Family generously donates $1 million to SOMD for student scholarships

By Kristen Hudgins

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UO remembers Andrew Berwick, a Duck with a passion for the arts

A longtime supporter of the UO, he helped transform the School of Music and Dance

Eric Humphrey's Legacy

Brad Garner Reaches New “Creative Heights” with an Interdisciplinary Dance Project funded by the Oregon Community Foundation

Associate Professor of Dance Brad Garner and his non-profit organization "Integrated Arts" has won a $75,000 Creative Heights Award from the Oregon Community Foundation to produce and tour a new work based on the life of legendary inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla. The work, which is entitled "Tesla: Light, Sound, Color," aims to creatively merge artistic disciplines with physics. The premiere performance is scheduled for Fall 2017 at the Soreng Theatre in the Hult Center.

Cultural Music Funds Sought
January 12, 2016—The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance has offered to the public two distinct crowdfunding opportunities as part of the UO’s new DuckFunder initiative.
Jazz Scholarship Funds New Combo

October 12, 2015—Herbert Merker ’62, local jazz enthusiast and an avid supporter of the University of Oregon’s program in jazz studies, gifted $125,000 to the School of Music and Dance in the spring of 2014 to fund the creation of a new ensemble composed entirely of scholarship recipients, the JazzArts Oregon Combo.