“An Evening On The Stage”: SF Opera Guild Celebrates Maria Manetti Shrem with the 2025 Crescendo Award. San Francisco Opera House, November 19, 2025. Event Concept Curator, Eva Zanetti; execution, J. Riccardo Benavides. Video production, Red Curtain Addicts.

The inspiring life of Maria Manetti Shrem in a short film that highlights her role as a visionary philanthropist, dedicated to giving back with “warm hands” rather than waiting for life’s end to support talents in Music, Education, Fine Arts, and Medicine. 

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem are honored with the Distinguished Friends of UC Davis Award, 2016.

Dean of College of Letters and Science, Estella Atekwana acknowledges gratitude to philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem for visiting Manetti Shrem California Art Studio at UC Davis in Spring 2022.

San Francisco Opera presents Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem’s philanthropic support of the Emerging Stars Program.

ArtSmart’s mission, bridging musicians (Mentors) and students (Mentees) in the public school system, was made possible at scale by philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem’s historic pledge.

Matías Tarnopolsky, Executive and Artistic Director of Cal Performances, talks to Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem about their love of classical music, the importance of music in young people’s education, and why they are sponsoring the Residency of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela with conductor Gustavo Dudamel.