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

$25,000–$49,000
The Anne Gillis Conway Scholarships and The Marian E. Gillis Memorial Scholarship
The Temerty Foundation Scholarships
Full-Tuition Scholarships

$10,000–$24,999
The Henry Hung Foundation Scholarships
The Mercier-Hantho Scholarship
The Mary Jean Potter Scholarship
The Janette Alana Montgomery Memorial Scholarship for Voice
Multiple Partial-Tuition Scholarships

$25,000–$40,000

The Dukes of Harmony Music Scholarship
The CIBC Scholarships
Annual Partial-Tuition Scholarships

$10,000–$24,999
The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation Scholarship

$5,000–$9,999
The Alvin Gold Scholarship
The Marianne Oundjian Scholarship for Strings
The Eitan Benjamin Postavsky Scholarship

$1,000–$4,999
The Stewart R. Code Memorial Scholarship
The Leah Elizabeth Freeman Memorial Scholarship
The Sharon Hart Scholarship

We also thank the following for their support of annual scholarships this year.

The Lois & David Buckstein Family Foundation
Larry Chambers & Karin Tomosky
Jennifer Cole
Anita & Leon Lapidus
Sheelagh Mercier
Endowed Scholarships

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

$100,000–$499,999
The Geraldine Edna Barford Memorial Scholarship
The Ida Lillian Bradd Memorial Scholarship
The Anne Gillis Conway Scholarship
The Marian E. Gillis Memorial Scholarship
The Gisela Klinghofer Memorial Scholarship
The Janette Alana Montgomery Endowment
The Josef Standhaft Memorial Bursary
The Al & Bob Whitworth Memorial Scholarship/Bursary

$50,000–$99,999
The Boris Berlin Scholarship
The Patricia Anne Brown Memorial Scholarship
The Ada Wagstaff Harris 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 Cecilia Zhang Memorial Music Award
Program Support

$50,000–$99,999
Philip & Eli Taylor – Taylor Academy Playathon

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

$5,000–$24,999
Dr. Vivien Kwok & Dr. Eric Tam – 2023-24 Strings Master Class Program
Dr. Deborah Leibow & Ken Snider – 2023-24 Senior Piano Master Class Program

$1,000–$4,999
Senna Kaczynski