Laurier’s ‘Making Space for Music’ campaign gets $4 million boost
Posted Jan 9, 2020 08:31:46 PM.
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The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation is donating $4 million to Wilfrid Laurier University’s Making Space for Music campaign, which will expand its Faculty of Music building.
Laurier will recognize the gift by naming the renovated Faculty of Music building the “Savvas Chamberlain Music Building.”
Savvas and Christine Chamberlain have a long history of friendship with Laurier, which includes philanthropy, leadership and engagement. Savvas is a member of Laurier’s Board of Governors and Christine is an alumni of the university's Honours Bachelor of Music program.
“Christine Chamberlain, Maria Harper, the board of Directors of our foundation and I all believe that our donation not only helps the advancement of the Laurier Faculty of Music, but it also helps our local and Ontario communities,” Savvas Chamberlain said in a release. “I believe that music should be accessible to everybody, it brings people together and it leads them to a better understanding of each other. The Laurier Faculty of Music has excellent undergraduate and graduate music programs, music clinics and workshops at Ontario high schools and a significant community outreach mandate.”
The Making Space for Music campaign is looking to raise $14 million to renovate and expand the Faculty of Music building, located at the Waterloo campus.
