The Board of Directors of the Empire State Youth Orchestra, Inc. gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, businesses, corporations, foundations, and government agencies, whose support of ESYO is so essential. The following list represents gifts of $1,000 or more received during the 2007-08 season and the 2008-2009 season, from July 1, 2008 through October 10, 2008.

25th Anniversary Dress Circle
Comfortex Window Fashions
Nigro Companies
Review Foundation, Inc.
Stewart’s Shops

Concert Sponsors
Time Warner Cable
Times Union

Platinum Angel
($50,000 and up)
The Jerome and Marlene Brody Foundation
New York State Music Fund

Gold Angel
($25,000 - $49,999)
CBS 6 / Albany
The Schenectady Foundation

Silver Angel
($15,000 - $24,999)
UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Maestro's Circle
($10,000 - $14,999)
The Keith Chapman Scholarship Fund, Norman Rea, Donor
Elizabeth Taylor
Anonymous (1)

Encore Circle
($7,500 – $9,999)
Roger and Sherley Hannay

Bravo Circle
($5,000 – $7,499)
Albany Medical Center Foundation
The Howard and Bush Foundation
Anonymous (1)

Fanfare Circle
($2,500 – $4,999)
The Albany Academies
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Community Art$Grant Connection/NYSCA and The Arts Center of the Capital Region
General Electric More Gifts, More Givers
Lavelle & Finn, LLP
The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Foundation

Conductor's Circle
($1,000 – $2,499)
Albany – City of Albany Arts Grants Committee
Juanita Billetdoux
Ann Bish
Chuck and Susan Brome
Charlotte  and Charles Buchanan
Community Care Physicians, P.C.
Alan and Beth Diedrich
Fox and Schingo Plastic Surgery
David and Patricia Gosda
Joan Gould
Analine Hicks
Dave and MaryBeth Hollinger
Robert Ludwig
M & T Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. D. Lee Miller
Kevin and Pat O'Bryan
Pitney Bowes Mapinfo Corp.
Barry L.Richman Group/Pearl Grant Richman’s/Crabtree and Evelyn
Daniel and Meris Ruzow
Schenectady County Initiative Program
Stewart’s Shops
Stuyvesant Plaza, Inc.
Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna, LLP
Anonymous (2)

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ESYO also extends sincere thanks to the many individuals, businesses and families listed below.

In-kind Donations
2 Guys D.J.
Alfred Fabric Centers, Inc.
A.O.W. Associates, Inc.
Bountiful Bread
Captial District Sports
Cellos2Go
Cole’s Woodwind Shop
Coxsackie Transport
Crossgates Mall
CS Arch Architecture/Construction Management
The Desmond Hotel
Drome Sound
Dunkin'Donuts
Empire Wine
Felthousen's Florist and Greenhouse
Fox Jewelers
Gallagher's Steak House
Gideon Putnam Resort
Golden Touch Hair Designers
The Great Escape / Splashwater Kingdom /Six Flags Friends
Guitar Center, Inc.
Guptil's
The Jewish World
John Keal Music Co., Inc.
J W Pepper Music
Krause's Candy
Longfellows Restaurant
Mangia’s
Mirror Lake Inn
Movie Gallery
News Talk 810 WGY
Northeast Music
Olde Bryan Inn
Parkway Music
Party Warehouse
Pat Wood
Picture People
Planet Earth Handbags/Silpata Jewelry
Premiere Transportation Group
John, Brenda, and Brian Quinn
Rock 'N Learn
Sandcreek Music
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Schenectady Van Curler Music
Segel Violins
Simmons Machine Tool Corp.
Starbuck's
Subway, Hannaford Plaza, Albany
Target
Time Warner Cable
Times Union
Treehouse Productions
Anne Villarama
Steve Weiss Music
Windham Mountain
Zero Gravity

Special Thanks
The Albany Academies
Albany City Schools
Karen Amedio
Beth and John Antonio
Joseph Ashworth
Michael Atchley
Mark Bardack
Bunny Barnum
Carole Baumes
Michelle Bergmann
Laurie Bestvater
Bethlehem Music Association/Lisa Callahan
Beth Emeth Congregation
Liz Bishop
Paul Black and Concetta DiRusso
Chuck Brome
Barry Butterfield
College of Saint Rose
Crossgates Mall
Michael J. DeiCas
Marty DeLaney
The Desmond Hotel
First Niagara
Kitty Fitzgerald
Joe Galuski, Franklin Plaza
Laurey Goldberg
David and Patricia Gosda
Joan Gould
Fei Han
Bev Harrington
Paige Hartl
Dave and MaryBeth Hollinger
Charles Jones
John Kafer
John Keal Music Co., Inc.
Nathan Lawrence, AudioArt
Patricia Manning
Blaine Miller
George Miller
Tony Mosca, Northeast Commercial Printing
Tim Olsen, Union College
Patrick Pacheco
Picture People
Tom Prawdzik, M&T Bank
Proctors Theatre
John and Brenda Quinn
Paula Ransbury, Voorheesville Friends of Music
Dan Ruzow
Chuck Shank
John Spinelli
Richard Stamp
Sony Stark, Pilotgirl Productions
Liza Todd Tivey
Joann Viglucci
WAMC
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Camille Wing
WMHT Production Services
WMHT Radio

Facilities Providers
City of Albany
The Albany Academies
Beth Emeth Congregation
Bethlehem Central High School
Clayton A. Bouton High School, Voorheesville
College of Saint Rose
Colonie Library - William K. Sanford Town Library
Doane Stuart School
Eddy Senior Care, Schenectady
First Baptist Church, Troy
First United Methodist Church, Schenectady
Guilderland Public Library
LaSalle School
Proctors Theatre
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
St. Pius X Church
Schenectady County Community College
Shaker High School
Shenendehowa High School
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Union College
University at Albany

ESYO at Proctors Theatre, 432 State St, Schenectady, NY 12305
Phone: 518-382-7581 | Email: esyoed@esyo.org

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