Stephen B.
Givens
Stephen B. Givens is the director of bands at Community High School where he instructs every facet of instrumental education, including music history, music theory and chamber winds. During his tenure at Community, the band program has consistently received superior ratings at marching and concert festivals and has a high number of students that are selected to participate in regional honor bands. The CHS Wind Symphony has been recognized as a 2006 Tennessee sweepstakes band. The band program at CHS has traveled to the cities of Atlanta and New York. The CHS band program performs four band concerts, two chamber winds concerts, solo recitals, and serves the school & community in multiple functions each year.
A native of Smyrna, Givens graduated from LaVergne High School and went on to earn his Bachelors of Music Education at Middle Tennessee State University. While at MTSU, he distinguished himself as a conductor and as a clarinetist performing with a plethora of professional and collegiate groups throughout the United States. Givens then went directly on to receive his Masters of Music, with an emphasis in conducting, at the Schwob School of Music in Columbus, Georgia. While at CSU, he worked with some of the best musicians in the country both for clarinet and wind band conducting including H. Robert Reynolds, Frank Battisti, Donald Hunsberger, Eugene Corporon, Gary Hill and the late Frederick Fennell. An advocate of life long learning, Givens plans on pursuing a doctoral degree of conducting in the future. Stephen is a member of MTSBOA, TMEA, MENC, TBA, International Clarinet Association & The Conductors Guild.
Stephen B. Givens
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