Support | Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (TOCCATA®)

An orchestra changes course only once in a generation, and TOCCATA is changing course now: from a treasured community ensemble into a professional one, with an ambition to match this extraordinary place.

The people who step forward at this moment will be remembered as the ones who made the new era possible, and their names can remain with us for as long as we play. Every gift, at every level, keeps our doors open: it is what lets anyone under 23 attend free, keeps general admission at $30, and puts our region's finest musicians on stage.

Ways to give

FOUNDING GIFTS

Leave your name on the beginning

The [Your Name] Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Chair

Endow the artistic leadership of TOCCATA in perpetuity. The conductor on our podium will hold your named Chair for as long as TOCCATA makes music, honored from the stage and in every program, forever.

The signature gift of the new era · suggested at $250,000

Name a Competition

Put your name on the discovery of new talent. Sponsor the Concerto Prize or the Composition Prize, and watch a young soloist or a living composer step onto our stage each year.

$2,500 sponsors the inaugural year · $12,500 endows it for five seasons and names it for you

Sponsor an Opera Singer

Bring Tahoe its first opera by standing behind one of its voices. Sponsor a principal artist of Madama Butterfly and your name appears beside theirs in every program: Cio-Cio-San, the title role; Lieutenant Pinkerton; Sharpless; Suzuki; and the Humming Chorus.

$8,000 for Cio-Cio-San · $5,000 for each of the others

Endowed Principal Chairs

Give a musician a home, and hear your name in the music itself. Concertmaster and principal chairs, levels by conversation.

To claim a named opportunity, or to design one of your own, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Hannah von Wiehler would be glad to meet with you personally. Giving levels are proposed and can be tailored.

With gratitude

TOCCATA is supported in part by the Nevada Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Artown, the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, and the Tahoe Community Foundation.