Support the Festival
GUILFORD COLLEGE · GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Help bring the music home.
For more than sixty years, summer in Greensboro has meant young musicians from around the world gathering at Guilford College to study, to perform, and to grow. The Eastern Festival of Music carries that tradition forward, continuing a legacy of great music-making founded here in 1961, with Gerard Schwarz on the podium as music director. Your gift is what keeps the music playing.
Every gift has a destination.
When you give, you choose where your support goes. Pick a fund below, or give where it is needed most.
Where your gift goes
Scholarships & Housing
Keep the festival within reach for talented young musicians. Fund housing for students who travel here.
Faculty & Guest Artists
We bring world-class musicians on every instrument to teach, mentor, and perform alongside the next generation.
Music in the Community
We keep great music accessible across Greensboro and the Piedmont, on stage at Dana Auditorium and beyond.
Choose your gift
Every institution has a founding moment, and ours is still being written. Your gift shapes what the Eastern Festival of Music becomes for the next generation of musicians. Help write the chapters that follow.
A tradition worth continuing
In 1961, Sheldon Morgenstern founded a summer music festival on the campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, and over the decades it grew into a celebrated home for young artists, among them the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the cellist Sterling Elliott. The Eastern Festival of Music is a new festival, created to honor that legacy and carry its spirit forward on the same Greensboro campus. Gerard Schwarz, who served as that festival's music director for nearly twenty years, now leads the Eastern Festival of Music through 2030. Your support is what brings this new chapter to life for the next generation of musicians.
60+
years of summer music-making
10,000+
musicians from 40 countries
4,500+
alumni worldwide
5 weeks
each summer at Guilford College
More ways to give
Donor-Advised Fund
Recommend a grant to the Eastern Festival of Music from your donor-advised fund.
Multi-Year Pledge
Commit a gift over several years and help us build on a steady foundation.
Gifts of Stock
Give appreciated securities and put your full gift to work. Contact us for transfer details.
Planned & Legacy Gifts
Include the festival in your estate plans and help secure its future for generations to come.
Employer Matching
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Gift by Check
Mail your gift to: Eastern Festival of Music, 3912 Battleground Ave, Suite 112, Box 323, Greensboro, NC 27410.
The Eastern Festival of Music continues a legacy of music-making founded in Greensboro in 1961. Your gift is processed securely; we never see or store your card number.