Past Directors

2010-Present Steven Lorenz

1981-2010 Kenneth R. Westerman

Note: AAPS opened a third comprehensive high school, Skyline in 2008. Starting with the graduating class of 2009, Huron and Pioneer High Schools divided into Huron, Pioneer, and Skyline. The division was completed with the class of 2012.

1978-1981 Joan Knoertzer

1974-1978 Robert Pratt

1973-1974 James Berg

1959-1973 Robert Pratt

Note: Ann Arbor High School divided into Huron and Pioneer High Schools with the graduating class of 1969.

1951-1959 John Merrill

Note: April 9, 1956: 1,374 students reported for the first day of classes at what would become Pioneer High School.

1950-1951 Lawrence Skinner

1946-1950 Geneva Nelson

Note: Geneva Nelson finished her career as a professor of music at the University of Michigan.

1942-1946 Rose Marie Grentzer

1927-1942 Juva Higbee

Note: Robes became concert attire for the A Cappella Choir during Juva Higbee's tenure as conductor.

1925-1927 Dorothy Paton

1924-1925 Joseph E. Maddy

Note: Dr. Maddy was the founder of the National Music Camp, which has become the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

1920-1924 George O. Bowen

Note: Mr. Bowen called the most select mixed chorus the A Cappella Choir for the first time in 1921. He also conducted the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club during his last two years at Ann Arbor High School.

1919-1920 Russell Carter

Note: Mr. Carter conducted the first choirs as classes in the school day at Ann Arbor High School during the 1919-20 school year. He also conducted the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club that year.

1918-1919 Unknown. This year book (The Omega) is missing from both the school and public libraries.

1917-1918 Miss Kleyn second semester. (0.5 years)

1916-1918 Jessie Brown (1.5 years)

Note: Jessie Brown seems to have directed the first regularly meeting mixed chorus at Ann Arbor High School during the 1916-17 school year.

Directors of the Women's Glee Club

1915-1918 Jessie Brown

1913-1914 Nora Hunt

1911-1913 O. V. Adams

Directors of the Men's Glee Club

1914-1916 Reuben Kempf

1913-1914 Earl V. Moore

Note: Mr. Moore became the first dean of the University of Michigan School of Music.

Note: Mr. Moore composed the fight song, Push On!, and alma mater, The Purple and White in 1914.

1910-1913 O. V. Adams

Note: The Glee Clubs sang together occasionally as a mixed chorus during the early years of the century.

1892 Minnie B. Caldwell is the first known director of a choir representing Ann Arbor High School conducting the "Chapel Choir".