Dear Friends of UCBSO, 

We surpassed our goal of $15,000 - all thanks to YOU, our families, community, and supporters. Today we celebrate a great milestone in our fundraising progress and the chance to bring more student musicians on a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

If you would still like to support us, our project will remain live for a few more hours until the end of the day. Every dollar will still go directly toward student scholarships, which cover travel, lodging, food, music rentals, and instrument transportation.  

Don’t miss our second set of Fall concerts this weekend, Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 at Hertz Hall. We are performing Beethoven's 6th Symphony ("Pastoral"), Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Ravel's La Valse! 

Hope to see you at there, and Happy Halloween!

A special shoutout goes to our newest donors at the $50 level or higher. Thank you to Shao Fang, Jahja Ling, Peter Lee, Thomas Norris, Stephen Chin, Alicia Telford, George Pursley, Michael Jacob, and Nathaniel Stookey!

Dear Friends of UCBSO,

Crowdfunding is coming to a close and we're only two days away from the end of this campaign! We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from our wonderful community this month, but we still need your help! We are so close to our goal of $15,000-- can you help us reach our goal so that we can make this trip possible for our musicians? 

Shoutout to our newest donors at the $50 level or higher: Andrew Kao, Phil and Virginia Raucher, Stephen Raucher, Toni Goldstein, Lisa Dunmeyer, Xiulin Yan, Chris Hopkins, Donald Stanford, Jessica Lewin, Ian Crane, Roger Samuelsen, Matthew Lee, Elizabeth Keenan, Ilan Roth, Connie Philipp, and Fred Matteson!

Enjoy our final video update featuring soloist Rebecca Chang from our last concert set and don't forget to share our project with your friends and family! 

Dear Friends of UCBSO,

Thank you so much for all of the support this month! We are well on our way to providing the support our musicians need to go on tour, but we have $2,191 to go to reach our goal! As we have just nine days left of the campaign, it would mean so much to us if you could share our story and our project with your friends!

Shoutout to our newest donors at the $50 level or higher: Janet Young, Koling Chang, Carla Shapreau, Lawrence Yabroff, Kathleen Wiegand, Kenneth Aron, Dahshuhn Duan, Shazib Elahi, Craig Taatjes, David Anderson, and Frank Baldwin.

Enjoy an update from one of our trumpet players, Thomas Green!

Sincerely,

The UCBSO Crowdfunding Team

We have reached our fundraising goal of $10,000! Thank you so much to our wonderful community. We are amazed by the overwhelming support and so grateful to have amazing patrons like you.

Because of you, we are able to stretch our goal to $15,000! With this extra support, we can help even more students who don't have the financial means to go on tour. 

A special shoutout goes to our new donors at the $50 level or higher. Thank you to John Gravell, Chris and Gail Mead, Kaht Dorward, Kenneth Aron, Sharon Tejada, Meredith Montgomery, Elisabeth Kersten, Elena Givental, Laurene Wu McClain, Zarina Khan, and Greg Durrett. 

Enjoy a video update featuring soloist Andrew Chen from the last concert set and don't forget to share our project with your friends and family! 

Dear Friends of UCBSO,

Thank you all so much for a great start to our crowdfunding campaign. Ten days into our campaign, we are already at 75% of our goal! Please enjoy a video update from our principal second violin, Michelle Chen. 

UCBSO had a wildly successful set of concerts this weekend, performing Brahms's First Symphony, Dvořák, Ravel, and Ahn to a sold out crowd! 

A special shoutout goes to our donors at the $50 level or higher. Thank you to Donald Stanford, Kenneth Laxer, Tod Brody, Paul Nordine, Merlyn Regucera, Christl M Kasler, Jean Ahn, Patti Selan, Feijie Fan, Amanda Wu Chroust, Barbara Collins, Anthony J Cascardi, Jooyeon Kong, and Stephanie Regucera. Thank you all for your support. Don't forget to share our project and story with your friends and family to help us reach our goal!

Sincerely,

UCBSO Crowdfunding