Raise the Baton:
The Elements of Music
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 5 PM
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon in Bend
Raise the Baton is Sunriver Music Festival’s premier fundraising party of the year! This lively event helps to raise vital funds for Young Artists Scholarships and the Festival’s world-class concerts.
Hosted by Maestro Brett Mitchell, the event features performances by six advanced 2024 Young Artists Scholarship recipients: Gabriel Reed, piano; Mateo Garza, violin; Matthias Santucci, piano; Lucinda Mone, mezzo-soprano; Jacob Nenow, piano; and alumnus John Fawcett, violin.
Emceed by local personalities Dr. Stephen Marshall and Brett Bizik, this is sure to be a fun evening, with a silent auction, paddle raise, and delicious food and thematic drinks by Bowtie Catering!
The auction includes the popular tradition of auctioning the season artwork—this year’s “Twilight Glow” by local artist Robert Allan Hooper. Other auction items include an 8-day trip to Florence, Italy, handmade crafts, gift baskets, wine & more.
Raise the Baton also highlights unique opportunities to sponsor “the elements of music”: guest artists, orchestra sections, concerts and musical works, solo parts, travel costs, venues, an instrument petting zoo for kids, and more. (It’s really expensive to move and tune a piano, for example.)
Celebrating the 29th year of the Young Artists Scholarship program, Sunriver Music Festival has awarded over $700,000 to Central Oregon music students. Thanks to your donations, we are also able to create and support music education classes and programs in South Deschutes County schools in addition to presenting world-class musicians in the Festival Orchestra each summer.
The cost to attend is $100 per person, and includes hearty hors d’oeuvres and complimentary wine and soft drinks.
We hope you will join us in keeping the arts alive and vibrant in Central Oregon!
Sunriver Music Festival is a year-round charitable organization. All donations given at Raise the Baton for sponsorships and scholarships may be deductible as per section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and donors will receive a receipt stating no goods or services were received for this contribution. Nonprofit tax ID #93-0736403.