New CHEF challenge match for June!
Having exceeded the May 75k goal the Community Health and Education Foundation (CHEF) is so taken by your commitment to PCO and in the needs of PCO to serve the community that they have added a 60k June challenge!
Now, as we raise up to 40k more CHEF will add in up to 20k more to reach 60k. May and June together can bring PCO to a total goal of 135k!
To donate by check: please make the check payable to CHEF, write “Passion for PCO 2025” in the memo field and mail it to: CHEF PO Box 420, Livermore, CA. 94551
Only donations made to CHEF and designated to PCO qualify to be matched. CHEF is a 501c3 non-profit organization (EIN 82-1408737). All charitable contributions are tax-deductible. Please look for CHEF’s receipt of your donation for you tax giving records. PCO and CHEF thank you!
Classical music changes lives! Your support enables PCO to:

- Retain the Bay Area’s finest professional musicians to enrich our local community with their exceptional artistry,
- Feature internationally acclaimed soloists,
- Deliver exciting programming, from the greatest classical gems to Pops, from Handel’s Messiah to premiering new works by esteemed living composers,
- Introduce annually 7,000 children to the enchanting world of classical music through our “Discover Music Now” educational in-school assemblies,
- Give clinics and masterclasses to budding middle and high school music students,
- Invite the next generation of composers from across the nation to our community so that we may be the first to enjoy new works expressing hopes, dreams and aspirations,
- Develop new initiatives and expand current programs to reach new audiences.
May 75k campaign heros. Please join them in June to help reach 135k total.
Cynthia Atherton
Rosemay Chang
Claudine Cheng
Paul Chrzanowski
Dr. Susan DuPree in memory of Hollis Hutchinson Bascom
Jim Vlantis and Sara Ennor
William and Nina Fahey
Luci Gallagher
Larry Goldfarb
Myla Grasso
Stephen and Trish Harwood
Jennifer Haus of the Giversgain Foundation
Walter Henry
Raquel Holt
Valerie & David Jonas
Jeanette King
Wei-Cheng Liao
Lara Low
Stephen Luchetta
Paul and Gerri McKellar and Big-O Tires
Patricia Memon
Steven Mendoza
Bobbe and David Miles
Patricia Moore in memory of Elizabeth Stratton Moore
James Mulgannon
Linda Myers
Sara Nealy in honor of Pamela Philbert
Jeffrey and Dana Norton
Pamela Philbert in memory of Gweneth Philbert
Judi Rees in the name of Bruce & Michelle Henderer
Thomas Rognlien
Werner and Sonja Schlapher
David A. Shapiro, MD and Sharon L. Wheatley
John Steinfirst in honor of Lawrence Kohl and PCO
Adam and Stacey Stephens
The Club
Laura Varner in memory of Jay Dee Rogers
Dr. Calvin Wood in memory of Dixie B. Wood