Music
The Trenton High School Instrumental Music Department has been widely recognized for its accomplished musicians. Alumni have performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Royal Opera House Orchestra. The THS Hockey Pep Band has been featured in the Detroit News and Hockey Weekly, and appeared several times on the WDIV-TV program "State Champs," for which the band performed the theme song. The group was the first hockey pep band ever to play at the state hockey semifinals and finals. The 130-plus member THS Marching Band has been a Michigan Competing Bands Association Top Ten Finalist seventeen times and has performed around the country, including at the 1999, 2000 and 2001 National Outback Bowl in Tampa. The THS Band was also featured in a command performance on WXYZ's "Kelly and Company" salute to late University of Michigan head football coach, Bo Schembechler. The THS Jazz Band has performed at the Detroit Montreux Jazz Festival, Toronto Music In The Parks Festival, Virginia Beach Music Festival, Chicago Navy Pier Jazz Weekend, and all around the state of Michigan. THS Jazz Band alumni have been jazz ensemble members at University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, and Central Michigan University. Former Trenton HS Band Director Rick Goward is the director of bands at Henry Ford Community College and leads the school Jazz Ensemble. The Trenton Jazz Band also performed for Vice President Al Gore at the 1998 opening of the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit. Mike Kurilko has been the Director of Bands at Trenton High School since 1987.
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