Hall of Fame

Nicholas is a trombonist and member of the Bloomfield Hills High School Class of 2022. During his time at BHHS, he was a part of many ensembles including four years in the Black Hawk Marching band, where he also served as an assistant section leader for one year. He additionally played for two years in Symphony Band, four years in Jazz band, two years in the pit orchestra, and two years in the Symphony Orchestra. Nicholas was also a member of the DSO Civic Symphonic Band for two years and the DSO Civic Philharmonic Orchestra for one year. He made the 2021 MSBOA High School All-State Band in his junior year. Nicholas was also a candidate for the Traub music scholarship his senior year. After graduating from BHHS, Nicholas pursued an education at Michigan State University. Here, he has played trombone in the MSU Concert Orchestra, and Spartan Brass starting in his freshman year. Nicholas is also a member of the Spartan Marching Band as of his sophomore year at MSU. He continues to play in the SMB as a bass trombonist and plans on continuing to play in the Concert Orchestra and Spartan Brass.

Robert H. Ambrose, 2002 Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA) Teacher of the Year, retired in 2015 after 38 ½ years of public school teaching. A graduate of Hope College and the University of Michigan, he spent 28 years at Andover High School, and in 2013, he became director of bands for the newly created Bloomfield High School. Bands under his direction consistently received Division I ratings at MSBOA District and State Festivals and were praised for their musical interpretation and their technical execution. During his tenure at Andover, the Andover High School Bands were featured in the Lord Mayor of Westminster’s New Year’s Day Parade and Concerts in 1996, 2000 and 2008, and the Edinburgh Easter Festival Parade and Concert in 2004 and 2012, and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2010. The Andover Symphony Band was selected to perform at the Midwestern Conference on School Music in Ann Arbor in 1987, 1994, 2001, and the BHHS Symphony Band performed at the Michigan Music Conference in 2014. He lives in West Bloomfield with his wife Laura.

In high school, Dylan Young was selected for the All-State Band and was drum major of the BHHS Marching Band his senior year. He is currently a member of the Michigan Marching Band. His favorite part was being part of the championship winning season and traveling to the Big 10 Championship, Rose Bowl, and National Championship. In the future, he hopes to teach private brass lessons and play trombone semi-professionally.

Anna graduated from Lahser High School in 2004. While in high school she performed at numerous MSBOA Solo & Ensemble festivals, participated in Marching Band, Jazz Band, Symphony Band, Symphony Orchestra, and performed in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony. After high school, Anna attended Miami University (OH) where she earned her undergraduate degree in preK–12 Music Education. She moved to Van Wert, Ohio where she taught Kindergarten music and 5th–12th grade Band for 10 years at Lincolnview Local Schools. During that time she earned her Masters in Music Education from Kent State University. In 2018 she left teaching music to take on different roles at Vantage Career Center, where she is now the Early Childhood Education instructor. Anna resides in Van Wert, Ohio, with her husband Seth and their two children Grayson and Lettie.

David Reed retired from the Bloomfield Hills Schools after teaching there for 32 years. He has a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Michigan State University and a Master of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan. He has performed with a number of Detroit-area orchestras and continues to perform locally as a soloist and in numerous chamber ensembles as well as in "Klezundheit". His orchestras at Bloomfield were consistently in demand and had been awarded Division I ratings every year during his tenure at Andover High School and Bloomfield Hills High School. His orchestras performed at concerts and festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England; Chicago, Orlando and at Carnegie Hall in New York City.