Thank you for making MusicFest 2024 the most successful one ever!

On September 15, 2024, more than 1,800 guests enjoyed concerts, recitals, jam sessions, and pop-up performances from Kinder HSPVA’s 350 Instrumental and Vocal Music students. Together, we raised $86,000 for music at Kinder HSPVA, a new record! Check out photos and videos from the event.

Your tickets and donations provide the Instrumental and Vocal Music Department budgets. In addition to basic classroom supplies and sheet music, the faculty relies on HSPVA Friends for curriculum essentials like: adjunct faculty for every ensemble; instrument repair and maintenance; music software; partnerships with professional arts organizations like AFA and DACAMERA; and elective courses like Ethnomusicology, Careers in Music, Music Citizenship, Music Education, and Music Recording and Production.

THANK YOU! We can’t wait to see you at MusicFest 2025!

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS MUSICFEST DONORS!

DIAMOND

The El-Yafi Family
Christi and Keith Guerrini
Jennifer and David Jordan
The Kinsel Family
Julia Robinson (Vocal ’07)
The Serrato Family

PLATINUM

The Boblitt Family
Yoko Fan
June Hu
Denise Longoria-Lopez
Christina and Damien Lyster
Yvette and George Temple
Giang Tran

GOLD

Anonymous (3)
AFA
Patricia Bonner
Hua Chen and Hong Ma
Julia Dhrako and Georgios Angelis
Joseph Goetz
Paula Hertel
Ya-Ling Hsiao and Shing-Jyh Chang
Claire and Tony Mello
The Powers Family
Falguni and Kaushik Shah

SILVER

Anonymous
Ebru Ak and Bora Tarhan
Christian Ayala-Diaz
Lou and John Black
Diedre Castle-Derry
Suk Chang
The Family of Auden and Emerson Chen
Theresa Craig
Leslie Anne Defenderfer
M. Kaye and Alex DeWalt
Kerry Ann and Jon Faro
Cindy and Will Giesen
Ronith Epelbon Hochman and Matias Hochman
Meiling and Phillip Huang
Yve and William Huttenbach
Catherine and Matthew Johnson
The Lane Family

Julie Lyles
Bobbi Jo and Chad Miller
Carole S. Nelson
Overton Foundation
Ramoj Paruchuri and Virajitha Maddipati
Polished Speech, PLLC
Leslie and Brian Rollins
Adrienne and David Scott
Kerry and Terry Smith
Teran Smith and John Caffey
Kimberly Stith
Ashley Throckmorton
Richy Turner
Suzanne and Josh Vanlandingham
Marie Wagner
Joy Zhou and Yuan Zhang

BRONZE

Anonymous (17)
Norma Alvarez
Evelyn and Frank Angelle
Callie Ayers
Dwight Ayers
Helen Maxine Balthrop
Dillon Barnes
Rachel and Mark Berins
Aarthi Bhandari and Dhiraj Rathi
W. Kent Bickham
Brent Blackaby and Larry Huynh
Stephanie York Blue
Cathy and Ken Brown
Wendy Smith-Butler and Jeffrey Butler
Irene Chang and Daniel Fu
Song and Ricardo Chang
The Chen Family
Moe and John Cheshire
Elizabeth Chiao and Raul Ramos
Rebecca Jiun Ying Chua
Shelah and Chris Crear
Selena and William Crochet
Stephanie Crochet and Brannon Rogers
Randi and Brandon Day
Edward Domingue
Julie and Naomi Doyle-Madrid
Harriet Eisenstein
Keely and Daniel Emery
Family Driving School LLC
The Faulkner Family
Laura and Israel Fernandez
The Ferrier/Catalano Family
Sarah Flowers
Terri Gee
Karen Ostrum George and Larry George

Omar Ghalayini
Marsha Gilbert
Derrick A. Golden
Robin and Don Gray
Joan Kemmet Greenleaf
Julie Haviland
Bettina Hebert
Marion and Scott Hemmersbach-Miller
Shiehnung Ho
Tamara and Tony Hochman
Byron Holman
David Hopkins
HSPVA Black Alumni Network
Nedre Deajon-Jackson and Jonathan Jackson
Pam and Ron Jackson
Dawn and Lance Johnson
Patrina and Joseph Johnson
Alicia McAfee Jones
Janice and Danny Kelley
Jill Kennedy
Jennifer Krohn
Magret and Charlie Lan
Shirley Lawrence
The Liman Family
Danielle Lincoln
Katarzyna Lindhorst
Charles Lindsay
Elaine and Peter Loggenberg
Claudia Macias
The Mangum Family
Juliet and Frederick McBride IV
Cynthia McCaskill
Emily and Jason Messa
Crista and Gary Miller
Crista and Gary Miller
The Mittelholzer Family

Yolanda Movsessian
Lai Nguyen
Theresa Nguyen
Rebecca and Will Norton
Satoko and Ichiro Osako
Shea Palamountain and Rob Smith
Zandra Pendarvis
Christene and Andre Pham
Robert Pollock
Jeremias Ramos
The Reynoso Family
The Richardson Family
Christopher Ruttle
Yuri and Daniel Saenz
Urvana Salazar
Deborah and Hal Sharp
Steven Skeele
Teran Smith and John Caffey
Christine Smith and Heather Smith
Diane and Neil Smith
The Soto-Marin Family
Tina Swangphol and Borre Eriksen
Sheronna and Will Taylor
The Tepper Family
The Terry Family
Yu Cao and Jin-Bin Tian
Nina Tripathy
Suzanne and Josh Vanlandingham
Taneah and Claude Vaughn
Julia and Ovidio Vazquez
Sally Walther
The Winard and Eisenstein Family
Lisa Wyche
Wei Zhang
Xuesong Zhang and Xiande Liu

RECOGNIZED

Anonymous (33)
Genevieve Alvarez
Nils Alves
Stacy and Jim Anderson
Fernanda de Andrade and Bernardo Lima
Marelsi Ruiz-Aponte and Raul Aponte
Nicole Armstrong
Desiree Armstrong-Eastland
Barbara Atobe
Leslie and Miguel Ayala
Allison Aye
Kristopher Ayers
The Babarczy Family
Karis Barron
Brenda Bass
Beacon Financial Planning
Reb Beavers
Luci Christian-Bell and Michael Bell
Judy Blundell
Denise Tanner Brown
Amanda Brown
Courtney and Brian Busby
Carlos Calderon
Bertha Cantu and Jorge Castillo
Goldie and Deric Carter
Jennifer Chase
Hsuan-An Cheng
Moe and John Cheshire
Kristina Cheshire
Ulelia and Kermit Childs
Troy Clendenin
Alene and Travis Coggin
Melisa Cole
Allison and Kevin Cooper
Rian and Sean Craypo
The Curtis Family
Nathalie and Chris Dave
Mary Davies
Mary Day
Gemma De Los Santos
Dennis Decker
Andrea Denette
Gina and Duane Dixon
The D’Ottaviano Family
Trisha and Blaine Douglas
Nicola Dundas
Anabel Esparza
Elizabeth Essner and Nils d’Aulaire
Catherine and James Evans
Zachary Evenbly
Tonya and Hassan Faggett
Tracie Fleming
Manuel Florez
Maria Gamez
Greg Garrett

Sachin Ghorpade
Mel and Dan Glina
Cassandra Gonzales
Juliet Gonzalez
Nancy and Jesus Gonzalez
The Habal Family
Teresa and Steven Hakel
Dameka and Charles Harrison
Toni Hartfield
Holly Hill and Aaron Nelson
Jennifer and Jeff Hill
Maria Hinojosa
Judith Hiott and Kelley Fair
The Hopkins Family
Barbara Horwath
Thuy Huynh
Libby Ingrassia and Philip Bergman
Lisa and Ross Irwin
Matthew Jamison
Ossie Jones
Jaida Jones
Terrell Jones, Jr.
Pat and Jerry Jordan
Arata and Nobue Kamishohara
Aly Kelly
Robert Kemmet
Nazia and Shiraz Lakdawala
Allison Lancaster
Rasheda and William Lawrence
The Lawson Family
Cindy Lee and Kiat Chong
Jasmine Lin
Heidi Lindsay
Prisca Ling and Joshua Chua
Adrian Longoria
Denise Longoria-Lopez
David Lowe
Deborah Lugo and Andres Gonzalez
Angela Luna
Danna and Constantine Markides
Beverly Marlin
Debra Marlin
Humberto Martinez
Alejandra Martinez and Dony Linares
Matilda Matiru and Fred Machoka
Sammie McAfee
Juliet and Frederick McBride IV
Najeda McNeal
Malleli Merino and Efrain Gonzalez
Amar Mohite
Susan and James Morado
Helen and Doc Morgan
Nathan Moss
Jessica Myers and Ryan Gagnon

Aaron Najera
Raquel Olguin
Peggy Patras
Yoselin Perez
The Perez Family
Celeste Peterson
Maria-Martha and Jim Powell
Johanna and Max Pule
Claudia Quirarte
Gustavo Ramos
Kristine Richards
Leslie and Kevin Roach
Lola J. Robinson
Dan Rogers
Cristobal Salazar
Lorena Salguero
Irving Salinas (Kodiak A/V)
Roman Salinas
Marilú Sánchez
Daucie and Marc Schindler
Julie and Richard Schwarz
Natalie Ann Sepulveda and Alejandro Lozano Sepulveda
Shreela and Vibhu Sharma
The Shupe Family
Casey and Matthew Sitton
Kelsea Skidmore
Jill Smith
Myra and Rayford Smith
The Sneed Family
Catharina and Scott Solomon
Rhobia Solomon
Shrividya Sridharan and Balaji Varadharajan
Kim and Fletcher Stafford
Chrissie Stone
Melodee and Anthony Sweeney
Tara Tatum
Rachel and Matt Theurer
Kathy Turner
Precious Uwaezuoke
Taneah and Claude Vaughn
Janelle and Federico Villamayor
The Vistante Family
Brandon Vos
Brandon Walker
Donna Warndof and Richard Ford
Jo Ann Warren
Eric M. Washington
Carla Weaver
Carla Weaver
Karrie and Richard Wheatley
Heidi Wilkinson
The Family of Chloe Williams
Tiffany Wrenn
Peirong Yang
Karen Young

About MusicFest

 

MusicFest is HSPVA’s longest running tradition! Originally called Spaghetti Supper, this event began 52 years ago as a potluck celebration and fundraiser featuring every HSPVA music ensemble. Across the decades, the Supper grew and evolved to accommodate the growing HSPVA community. The name MusicFest was adopted from another HSPVA benefit concert tradition that also began in the 1970s. Combined into one unique legacy, all HSPVA music alumni share the common experience of performing in this event!