The 2014 MNSOTA (MN chapter of ASTA) Community Service Award being presented to Givens Violins. Pictured from left to right are Andrew Dipper, Claire Givens, John Leighton, and Douglas Lay.
Community Support
Givens Violins makes every effort to provide support to the string community. In the last 2 years, it has provided support in the following categories.
Support for Prizes
- Minnesota Sinfonia
- Saint Paul String Quartet Competition (SPSQC)
- Young Peoples Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA)
- MNSOTA – ASTA
Advertising
- American String Teachers Association
- American Suzuki Journal
- Bismarck-Mandan Orchestra Association
- Boston Early Music Festival
- The Bridge Chamber Music Festival
- Greater Grand Forks Symphony Association
- Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies
- J. Laiten Weed Honor’s Orchestra
- Lakes Area Music Festival
- MNSOTA ASTA
- Minnesota Beethoven Festival
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Minnesota Sinfonia
- Minnesota Youth Symphonies
- North Dakota Music Educator’s Association
- Northern Valley Youth Orchestra
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
- Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra
- South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
- South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra
- South Dakota String Teachers Association
- SPCO Youth Chamber Music Competition
- Suzuki Association of the Americas
- Suzuki Association of Minnesota
- Twin Cities Musicians Union
- University of WI-Stevens Point Suzuki Institute
- The Violin Society of America
Donation
- Civic Orchestra of Minnesota
- Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud
- Dakota Valley Symphony
- El Sistema Minnesota
- MacPhail Suzuki Program
- Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
- MacPhail Center for the Arts
- Mankato Symphony Orchestra
- Minneapolis Pops Orchestra
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Minnesota Sinfonia
- Minnesota Youth Symphonies
- Mississippi Valley Orchestra
- National Music Museum
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO)
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