Contemporary Youth Orchestra educates and inspires young musicians through exceptional musical training, unique performance opportunities and high quality educational programming. CYO is committed to creating opportunities for all qualifying students to participate in our programs, regardless of ability to pay. That’s why your generosity is essential.
Meet our Amazing Sponsors
Icon Sponsor
$25,000+
- Anonymous
- Cleveland Foundation
- Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
- Cuyahoga Community College
- The George Gund Foundation
World Tour Sponsor
$10,000+
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Ohio Arts Council
The Big Break Sponsor
$5,000+
- Connor Foundation
- Barry and Sam Gabel
All Access Pass Sponsor
$2,500+
- Fran and Jules Belkin
- Cleveland Monsters/Cleveland Cavaliers Foundation
- Jones Day
- James and Joe’l LaRose, In honor of Barry and Sam Gabel
- Laub Foundation
- Sarah-Catherine Welty
- Sherwin Williams
Meet and Greet Sponsor
$500+
- Anonymous
- Banks-Baldwin Foundation
- Scott Frodyma
- Charles Gruber
- William Kennedy
- Terri Metzger
- Sean and Allison O’Malley
- Music and Drama Club
- Paul R. Ganci & Sharon L. Nichols
- Lynne and James Shlonsky
- Heather Vercillo
Front Row Center Member
$250+
- Michael Belkin
- Jennifer Bubb
- Harry Hawkes
- Susan Lesko
- Porvair Filtration Group, Inc. is proud to support CYO in honor of Ethan Cerney whose dad, Tim, is one of our employees
- Elliot Saltzman
Gig Member
$100+
- Diana Bowman
- Regina Cody
- Teresa DeVera
- Ivan Gabel
- Michele Gabel
- Steven Gabel
- Craig and Julie Gordon
- Lindsey Grady
- Scott Hallgren
- Shannon Herman
- Qionglian Jacques
- Tina Jicha
- Lynette Laehu
- Adam Lind
- Raymond Liu
- Lisa Martin
- Elizabeth Nestinger
- Andrea Potischman
- Kathy Stephenson
- Allison Thellman
General Admission Member
$5+
- Patricia Alvord
- Shayla Anderson
- Laurel Berrie
- Cori Birce
- Miriam Boraz
- Diana Bowman
- Brittany Brackett
- Takae Brewer
- Matthew Caponigro
- Teri Coffey
- Eriko DeMilta
- William Detmar
- Charles Ditchman
- Maureen Ditchman
- Rachel Everett
- Joel Fink
- Jenny Fritz
- Rachelle Gaal
- Debra Gabel
- Nancy Gabel
- Patricia Gersh
- Jo Gibert
- Nancy Gillig-Greer
- Alexander Gillig-Vassalle
- Stephen Hailer
- Tricia Hall
- Ryan and Summer Incledon
- Becky Jenkins
- Cheryl Kaufman
- Lisa Koops
- Barbara Kozlow
- Kerri Leder
- Mya Vincent Leigh
- Elizabeth Leu
- Cynthia Liu
- Jennifer Lomma
- Amy Maurer
- Nicholas Montague
- Denise Moss
- Laura Novotny
- Timothy O’Hara
- Zara Pakroo
- John Piche
- Dana Plank
- Lawrence Pollack
- Lydia Puccini
- Diana Ramirez
- Gail Salvo
- Sandra Seballos
- Kathleen Stephenson
- Manya Tandon
- Laura Uhl
- Kili Watson
- Stephanie Zhang
Legacy Donors
The following donors have supported CYO with multi-year gifts of $10,000+
- Laura and Erol Beytas
- Beth Brandt Sersig and Christopher Brandt
- Pete and Kathy Klein
- Todd and Danielle Stephenson
Contemporary Youth Orchestra’s programs are made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.
Contemporary Youth Orchestra is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
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