Endowed Chairs

As the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra has grown, so has the need to provide assurance that the music will continue for many years to come.  Toward that end, the Symphony offers the opportunity for donors to designate significant contributed funds for the purpose of permanently endowing a chair or position in the Orchestra.  Such endowments can provide a way for the Orchestra to meet a portion of the costs allocable or associated with various positions in the Orchestra.  In 1999, our podium was permanently endowed through the establishment of The John A. & Elisabeth P. Thompson Conductor's Chair.

More recently, two individuals have stepped forward to endow chairs in perpetuity in the Montgomery Symphony.  During the 2005-2006 season, an anonymous donor endowed the Principal Second Violin Chair in honor of MSO Manager Helen Steineker.  During the 2006-2007 season, long time MSO violinist Irene Miller and her late sister, Olga Stapleton, endowed Irene's chair in the first violin section to celebrate the MSO's 30th Anniversary.  Both chairs are named in perpetuity and identified on the Orchestra's Personnel Roster which appears in the MSO's Program Book.  The Symphony family is most grateful to these individuals and invites other music lovers to join them in endowing a chair in our Orchestra.