Taylor Academy Scholarship & Program Supporters | The Royal Conservatory of Music

Our Taylor Academy Supporters

The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists nurtures and develops the vast potential that exists in extraordinarily gifted young artists. Through unparalleled creative, academic and personal enrichment, The Taylor Academy produces the leaders of tomorrow. Your support is vital to helping us provide exceptional training for our incredible musicians.

Our sincere thanks to Phil and Eli Taylor for their transformational gift, which we are proud to recognize through the naming of The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists.

We are very grateful to all the generous donors whose investment in scholarships and programs at The Taylor Academy is supporting the next generation of great artists in the 2023-24 academic year.

Multiple Full-Tuition Scholarships

$50,000+
The Taylor Prize
The Temerty Foundation Scholarships

$25,000–$49,000
The Anne Gillis Conway Scholarships and The Marian E. Gillis Memorial Scholarship
The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation Scholarships
The Lewitt Family Foundation Scholarships
The Janet Dattels Ortved Memorial Scholarship
Full-Tuition Scholarships

$10,000–$24,999
The Mercier-Hantho Scholarship
Multiple Partial-Tuition Scholarships

$25,000–$49,999
The CIBC Scholarships

$10,000–$24,999
The Ash Lassonde Scholarship
The Mary Jean Potter Scholarship
The Amanda & John Sherrington Scholarship

$5,000–$9,999
The Stephen & Jenifer McDonald Scholarship
Annual Partial-Tuition Scholarships

$10,000–$24,999
The Marianne Oundjian Scholarship for Strings

$5,000–$9,999
The Alvin Gold Scholarship
The Dukes of Harmony Music Scholarship (5,000)
The Eitan Benjamin Postavsky Scholarship (7,500)

$1,000–$4,999
The Leah Elizabeth Freeman Memorial Scholarship (1,750)
The Sharon Hart Scholarship (1,012)
Endowed Scholarships

Scholarships that establish a legacy of support and are providing $2,500 or more for the 2023-24 academic year.

$1,000,000+
The Temerty Foundation Scholarships

$500,000 - $999,999
The Anne Gillis Conway Scholarships and The Marian E. Gillis Memorial Scholarship

$100,000–$499,999
The Ida Lillian Bradd Memorial Scholarship
The Gisela Klinghofer Memorial Scholarship
The Josef Standhaft Memorial Bursary
The Al & Bob Whitworth Memorial Scholarship/Bursary

$50,000–$99,999
The Geraldine Edna Barford Memorial Scholarship
The Boris Berlin Scholarship
The Patricia Anne Brown Memorial Scholarship
The William Heintzman & Barbara Heintzman Piano Scholarship
The Dorothy Horwood Piano Scholarship
The R.S. Williams String Scholarship
The SBLR Group Endowment Fund Scholarship
The Lucia ten Kortenaar Scholarship
The Vandendool-Cable Award
The Frank Vidlak Memorial Scholarship
The Ada Wagstaff Harris Scholarship
The Cecilia Zhang Memorial Music Award
Annual Program Support

$50,000–$99,999
Philip & Eli Taylor – Taylor Academy Playathon, The Director’s Discretionary Fund and Academy Chamber Orchestra
Mary Jean & Frank Potter – The Director’s Discretionary Fund

$25,000–$49,999
Richard Pyne & Ellen Annor-Adjei

$10,000–$24,999
Anne & Neil Conway – The Director’s Discretionary Fund
The Dukes of Harmony – Taylor Academy Junior Choir Program
Jackman Family – Taylor Academy Playathon
Dr. Vivien Kwok & Dr. Eric Tam – 2023-24 Strings Master Class Program
Dr. Deborah Leibow & Ken Snider – 2023-24 Senior Piano Master Class Program

$5,000–$9,999
Vonna Bitove – Taylor Academy Playathon

$1,000–$4,999
Daniel Gelfant & Allan Risk – Taylor Academy Playathon
Senna Kaczynski

Endowed Program Support

$250,000–$499,999
Florence Man & Bernard Sze – The Florence Man & Bernard Sze Concerto Competition