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left to right: CelloBello Founder Paul Katz; Nancy Lubin; pianist and CelloBello Board member Pei-Shan Lee; Richard Lubin

CelloBello wishes to thank the
Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation
for their major gift of support.

CelloBello:
A proud recipient of two
Harvard Musical Association grants.

celloangel

$10,000+

Alphadyne Foundation
The Bay and Paul Foundations
David Bury and Marianne Lockwood
Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation
Paul Katz and Pei-Shan Lee
Chafen Lu
Springer-Lu Family Foundation
Richard and Nancy Lubin
Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation
Paul Mattal
Helen Zell

cellovirtuoso

$5000 – $9999

Joseph Bein
Bein & Company
Richard J. Bogomolny and Patricia M. Kozerefski
Todd & Lorraine Idson
Jay and Leslie Ifshin
Ifshin Violins

cellopatron

$1000 – $4999

Alpine Coda Foundation
Susan Bestul Photography
Natasha Brofsky
Cleveland Violins
Commonwealth Charitable Fund
Donald Druga
Jay Dweck
Fidelity Charitable
Jonathan and Christy Frank
Michael Frank, MD, JD
Joan Harris
The Irving Harris Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Joshua W. Katzen and Amelia Welt Katzen
David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kreeger
Laudes Domini Fund
Glenn and Ida Mercer
Antoinette Miller
National Philanthropic Trust
Sarah Forbes Orwig
Christopher Reuning
Reuning & Sons Violins
Peter Ross
David and Kitty Rothschild
Schwab Charitable
Astrid Schween
Brant A. Taylor

cellopartner

$500 – $999

Robin Blossom
Travis Casper
Catherine Chan
Mark Churchill
Lionel and Mary Go
Gretchen Hallerberg
Bonnie Hampton
Judith K. Haschenburger
Timothy Janof
Hans Jensen
Laurence Lesser
Eva McClain
Desiree Rahman
Robert Rund
Kevin Snorteland
Meghan White

cellofriend

$250 – $499

Martha Baldwin
Alexei Barnes
Yari Bond
Roderick Branch
Garth Cummings
Marilyn Dudinger
Bryan Dumm
Norman Fischer
Benjamin P. Fisher
Deborah Goldenberg
Carolyn Hagler
Mimi Hwang
Mark Kosower
James McPherson
Thomas Orlando
Lauren Spaulding
Anne L. Taylor
Richard Weiss
David Ying
Jeffrey Zeigler

cellofan

$100-249

Amazon Smile Foundation
Dale Williams – Elizabeth Anderson Family Fund
Fred Bender
Cynthia Bennett-Valtman
Laura Blustein
Deborah Coulombe
Susan Lamb Cook
Gloria DePasquale
Veronica Garcia
Carole Gatwood
Selma Gokcen
Madeleine Golz
Sally Gross
Ross T. Harbaugh
Robert Hausmann
Daniel Heifetz
Nancy L. Ives
Robert Jesselson
Ralph Kirshbaum
Yeesun Kim Kitchen
Susan Klein
Beatrice Kovasznay
Eddie Kwan
Sara Langbert
Bernard Laurence
Susan Lauscher
Andrea Leers
Anna Leone
Ronald Lowry
Debra MacQueen
Elizabeth Mark
Randall Phillips
Joan Resnikoff
Jean Rife
Matthew Rosen
Tom Rosenberg
Lois Rund
Peter and Sylvia Salaff
Victor Sazer
Diane Schwartz
Martha Siegel
Linda Singer
Star Market Give Where It Counts Program
Cheng-tu Su
Ellen Szego
Carol Tarr
Jennifer Tejada
Paul Terry
Joe & Lainie Toner
Alix Weisz
John Wimbiscus
Stephanie Wingfield
Kristina Wunder

cellobuddy

up to $100

Robert Alter
Anonymous
Deborah Aponte
Jared Ballance
Robert Battey
Grace Bell
Benevity
Barbara Bogatin
Margaret Brennan
Diana Elisabeta Cahanescu
Adrienne Cheng
Douglas Cone
Kathleen Coolbaugh
Jan Dash
John DiAna
Charles Epstein
Patricia Esposito
Jeanne Fox
Pamela Gibbon
Christine Glennon
Niles Gunderson
Deborah Haley
Marilyn Jacobson
Sarah Jesudason
Michael Knoblauch
Scheherazade LaBonne
Margot Lacey
Ju Hyun Lee
Evalyn Legried
Xin Li
David Licht
Heidi McBride
Barbara McMeen
Kenneth Nachtigal
Network for Good
Haiye Ni
John Palmucci
Bea Jay Panke
John Pankratz
Rosevelt Pardy
Beth Pearce
Marcela Proctor
Marijean Quigley-Young
Roberta Rominger
Paula Rothman
Cameron Sawzin
Gero Schmidt
Bette Ann Schwede
Daniel Smith
Stephen Somach
William Stauffer
Stop & Shop Giving Tag Program
Joe Theobold
Frances Vanasco
Daniel Wallenberg
Lynn Williams
Dieter Wulfhorst

The list above represents donors whose gifts were received between January 1 – December 31, 2023.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

I still have not found anything more permanent or more beautiful than music.

Janos Starker

Artistry is in the details.

Anonymous

Progress is impossible without change.

George Bernard Shaw

Cello playing is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration.

Janos Starker

There is a performance nirvana, a miraculous interaction of ears, hands, and emotions. Listening awareness is primary in this zone of creative transcendence.

Paul Katz

My goal is to convey a true masterpiece in whatever I play.

Janos Starker

Intelligence is everywhere in the body, nature and the universe.

Anonymous

Listening is the conduit through which all physical actions creating expressive results are filtered.

Elizabeth Aureden

Everyone knows what they can’t do – our weaknesses scream at us every day. To perform, you must know what you can do and bring the attention of your audience to those strengths.

Gregor Piatigorsky

Improper body use is like a pebble in your shoe. A nagging discomfort, it can cause severe damage over time.

Victor Sazer

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer can make. You have to feel, to “become”.

Michael Jackson

Teaching moves through generations. If you believe in the principles that represent the truth in the masterpieces, then you try to preserve those principals. They can be preserved only through teaching.

Janos Starker

Variety, variety – no two snowflakes are alike, no two notes are alike.

Pablo Casals

The fingers have no brains, and they have no ears!

Gregor Piatigorsky

As a teacher, my first task is to teach students how to practice. Once they understand this, they begin to make progress.

Ivan Galamian

Our bodies continually provide us with information, yet we too often ignore or do not understand their messages. Awareness is the first step.

Victor Sazer

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t trying.

Wynton Marsalis

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Teaching should support, inspire, motivate, impart high ideals, and help each to discover and trust their unique talent and strengths.

Paul Katz

Music is one of the essentials in human existence, almost identical with eating, sleeping, making love, the basic functions that keep a human being alive. Music simply, is one of the blessings and joys of civilized human existence.

Janos Starker

There is no top – there are always further heights to reach.

Jascha Heifetz

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Jascha Heifetz

Art is an activity in which one human heart communicates with another human heart.

Anonymous

Living in question is the most creative and stimulating state of being. Doors are always opening in the mind, one is motivated to explore, to observe and to take note.

Selma Gokcen

Don’t perform – just be yourself.

Bobby McFerrin

Vibrato is like lipstick – too much is ugly – the right amount and color is beautiful.

Felix Galimir

Tension is our biggest enemy. We must spend our life undoing it.

Ida Kavafian

Play the fear out and then tone it down.

Kathy Winkler

Even the smallest motion involves your entire body. Your body functions as a unified whole rather than as a collection of isolated parts. Those who focus too much on small motor movements can easily lose this vital connection with the rest of the body.

Victor Sazer

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible is a benefactor of humanity.

Zoltan Kodaly

Just a little progress every day makes big progress over time.

Sally Chisholm

I’ll stop teaching when I stop learning.

Gregor Piatigorsky

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Many people are too small to be teachers, but no one is too big.

Gregor Piatigorsky

Cello playing begins in the back, before the sound.

Bernard Greenhouse

On artistic conception: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”.

Michelangelo

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Creative talent has an irrepressible hunger, and for the musician, music is the food it cannot live without.

Paul Katz

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Through discipline comes freedom.

Aristotle

I was born with an ability, with music in me, that is all. No special credit was due me. The only credit we can claim is for the use we make of the talent we are given.

Pablo Casals

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

Yo-Yo Ma

Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.

Yo-Yo Ma

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling… our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Yo-Yo Ma

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there’s a place for culture.

Yo-Yo Ma

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals

Listening awareness is primary in the zone of creative transcendence.

Paul Katz

Practicing is the art of making your ears happy.

Michael Haber

Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don’t give a damn.

Jascha Heifetz

Like love, performance is not about me, it’s about the other person – giving to the audience.

Kevin Olusola

Donors

CelloBello wishes to thank the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation for their major gift of support.

CelloBello: A proud recipient of two Harvard Musical Association grants.

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cellovirtuoso

cellopatron

cellopartner

cellofriend

cellofan

cellobuddy

CelloBello wishes to thank the
Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation
for their major gift of support.

CelloBello:
A proud recipient of two
Harvard Musical Association grants.