THE PAUL KOORS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Promoting awareness of and research into aortic dissection disease, the songs of Paul Koors, and music education in songwriting. 

This foundation was established in 2019 to honor the memory of Paul Koors, by his family and friends. Our goals are to raise money to support research into and awareness of aortic dissection disease, which claimed Paul's life suddenly and without warning in August of 2018.  Paul was a surgeon, musician and devoted family man.  We also want to support music education organizations dedicated to teaching songwriting. Paul's passion was writing songs, and he dreamed of performing them for people. He was just hitting his stride as a singer/guitarist/songwriter, so we want you to hear his music as well.

GREG HOWARD (1964-2023)

The Paul Koors Memorial Foundation is deeply saddened by the loss of our Board member, Paul Koors Band Producer and Musical Director, and friend, Greg Howard. Greg passed away on April 22, 2023 at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was an enormously talented musician and is recognized as one of the greatest Chapman Stick players in the world. 

Greg produced Paul's two albums, Winter's Come and Gone (2016) and Make a Man, the Unfinished Life of Paul Koors (2019). He was more to Paul than just a musical collaborator and arranger—he was a dear friend and he became an enthusiastic ambassador of Paul's music.  

Greg recently posted videos of the Paul Koors Band live at The Southern Café and Music Hall at the Make a Man CD release on October 12, 2019 in Charlottesville. You can watch the band perform Paul's song, Irish Goodbye, and enjoy one of Greg's rare vocal performances in A Sane Woman

We will miss Greg for his music, his contributions to the work of the Foundation, and his friendship with the extended Koors family. We are forever grateful for his love of Paul and his music, including his guidance assisting the Foundation's creation and mission following Paul's passing. Our prayers are with his family.