MBO Gives

MBO Gives

Annual Gifts

  • Financial awards to top seniors and juniors

  • Scholarships for high school All-State students to defray cost of participation

  • Instrument rental financial need scholarships

  • Summer Beginner Orchestra/Band financial need scholarships

  • Help with bussing costs

  • Professional development funding

  • Middle School and High School Solo and Ensemble Contest accompanist fees

  • Middle School Solo and Ensemble Contest entry fees

2024

  • Registration fees for middle school solo & ensemble

  • Elementary honor choir music

  • Financial assistance for students to attend honors festivals

  • Coach bus to for middle school students to bring instruments and perform at Orchestra Hall

  • Professional musician mentorship

  • Orchestra equipment for elementary, middle, and high schools

  • Rental fees for students in need of financial assistance

2023

  • Elementary Choir music

  • OHS cello

  • Digital Piano for OHS

  • World Drumming Kit for elementary music

  • OMS Orchestra: 2 string bases

  • 5 Glockenspiels elementary general music

  • OHS Choir folders

2022

  • Music promotion posters for all schools

  • Beginner Band Festival Registration

  • OMS Choir accompanist fees

  • Composer workshop fees for OHS Jazz Band

  • OHS Choir boutonnieres

  • Repair of 2 OHS violins

  • OHS Choir 9-10 ACDA-MN Honor Choir fees

  • OHS Orchestra Drake Honor fees

  • OMS Band Bari Sax

2021

  • 2 Ukulele sets for general elementary school music

  • Instrument cleaning and repairs

  • OHS Orchestra: 5 cellos

  • Elementary Band French Horn

2020

  • Goblet drum for We All Play! park

  • Viola and cello bows for elementary orchestra

  • Middle School orchestra room humidifier

  • Elementary Honor Choir music

2019

  • Music room rug for Lincoln Elementary music classroom

  • Guitar instructors for middle school guitar block class

  • Eight hard shell Heritage cello cases with wheels

  • 100 instrumental folders for Symphony and Varsity Orchestras

  • All-National Symphony Orchestra scholarship

  • Three viola cases and three bass cases for OMS Orchestra

  • Six bass bows for OMS Orchestra

2018

  • World drum kit (pictured above) for Lincoln Elementary music classroom

  • Funds for music conference for elementary music teachers

  • Winter drumline equipment

2017

  • Bass chair for orchestra

  • Donation for caroler robes

  • Gift to Owatonna Arts Center, proceeds from Derek Douget concert

  • Tails, bows, and cases to complete three violas donated to the high school

  • Tenor sax for junior high


Previous gifts

  • Choir robes

  • Elementary percussion instruments

  • Violin

  • Tuba

  • Bows

  • Clavinova

  • Elementary band euphonium

  • 3/4-size cello for junior high orchestra