Six Cincinnati arts organizations will benefit from the estate of local arts patron Patricia Corbett, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

A bequest of more than $30 million from Corbett's personal trust will be shared by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Music Hall (CCM), the Society for the Preservation of Music Hall, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Musical Festival Association, and the Children's Theatre of Cincinnati. Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights will also receive gift.

More than 44 percent of Corbett's estate will be used for programs within CCM, where an endowment in her name will be created to support faculty, dance department programming, community educational programming, and improvements to facilities. Other gifts to the conservatory will augment the Jean S. Reis Endowment for Theater Design and Production, which the Corbett Foundation created in 1995, the J. Ralph Corbett Audio Production Center in CCM's Electronic Media Department, and Werner Recital Hall.

Corbett, who died in January, specified that the gifts be used to create new programs or generate new ideas for the future. "Mrs. Corbett's generosity and vision for this major gift will be respected and honored," said CCM dean-designate Douglas Knehans. "I am certain this will have a transformative effect on CCM."