BECOME A PATRON
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Throughout musical history, composers, performers, and orchestras have enjoyed the patronage of music lovers, wealthy individuals, the aristocracy, and even the royalties of the world. Without these vital supporters, composers like Beethoven, Chopin, and Stravinsky may have never been able to share their artistic talents. Today, where there are fewer and fewer public options for financial support, your patronage is paramount to both preserve and grow the the pillars of our artistic culture.
With your support, we will continue to grow as an orchestra, performing not only in the Netherlands, but across Europe and the world. And as one of the few orchestras dedicated to the exploration of Romantic music on historical instruments, we feel strongly this is exhilarating initiative that will stand the test of time. You can either choose to make a one time donation through our webshop or pledge a recurring five year donation with tax benefits and become a member of one of our donor circles. Each of these circles is named after an important patron to the composer we love and perform as an orchestra. As a patron, we will invite you to all of our concerts for the season, special events like pre-concert lectures, and will be recognized for your unwavering support to a golden-age of music making.
If you would like to become a patron, please contact us directly at info@orchestralagrandt.com!
the Stirling circle
With a donation of €100, you will become a member of our Stirling Circle. Jane Stirling (1804-1859) was an amateur pianist, friend, and patron of Frederic Chopin. After the two were introduced in the early 1840s, Stirling began to take lessons from the Polish virtuoso, and later began to handle his private and business affairs. When Chopin passed away in 1849, Stirling paid off a series of mountainous debts, organized his funeral, purchased his Pleyel grand piano, and arranged for the posthumous publication of several compositions. Chopin had told her she was the only know that knew his true date of birth—she wrote it down and buried it in a box with him in the Père Lachaise Cemetary.
the Singer circle
With a donation of €250, you will become a member of our Singer Circle. Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was the heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune and a patron of a wide range of artists: composers, writers, painters, and even scientists. Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, and Francis Poulenc were just a few names that frequented her salons. She was even a significant backer in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Here she is photographed with Igor Stravinsky at her residence in Venice (1924).
the Gardner circle
With a donation of €500, you will become a member of our Gardner Circle. Isabella Gardner (1840-1924) was one of Boston's greatest eccentrics, known for her rowdy and class-defying behavior across the US and Europe. She promoted the works of French contemporary composers such as Gabriel Fauré and Ernest Chausson. In 1886, she made the famous pilgrimage to Bayreuth to see a performance of Wagner's Parisfal, three years after the composer's death. When she opened her own personal museum in Boston in 1903, she hired out the Boston Symphony Orchestra to play a program of Bach, Mozart, Franck & Schumann.
She was painted by many of the great portraitists of her day, including John Singer Sargent in 1888
the Von MECK circle
With a donation of €1.000, you will become a member of our Von Meck Circle. Nadezhda Von Meck (1831-1894) is perhaps one of the most famous and mysterious of classical music's patrons. She supported Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for thirteen years, though stipulated they must never meet. Unlike many of these partrons that went down in history as eccentric socialites, Von Meck kept almost entirely to herself. She did, however, attend concerts of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow, often choosing to sit incognito in the balcony. Nikolai Rubinstein, Henryk Wieniawski and Claude Debussy are among the other composer whom she supported, though she maintained personal relationships with the three.
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