The A.H.S music is an organization of students and staff who pride themselves on excellence- excellence in our personal performance, our section’s performance, our instrumental and chorale performance, and in the way we represent ourselves and our school. Excellence is a choice people make, just as mediocrity is a choice. Excellence is not a gift you’re born with, but something you strive for out of the conviction that being as good as you can be is what life is all about. We know that the road to excellence is not always going to be an easy one, but if we work together then excellence is an attainable goal. Our policies are necessary to achieve the goals that we set ourselves- to have pride in ourselves and others, to always perform as winners, and to work together to be truly excellent in everything we do. Excellent musicians differ not in what they do, but how they do it.

There are many different honor groups that both band and choir students can audition for. Those groups include All-District Honor Guitar, Band and Choir; CCS (central coast section) Honor Band, Orchestra and Choir; Regional Honor Choir; All-State Honor Band, Orchestra, and Choir.

Every 2 years band and choir fundraise to attend a Disney Workshop. Students get to attend the behind the scene on how it is like to perform in a recording studio. They unlock the magic of storytelling through iconic soundtracks from Disney films and learn to hone fundamental skills like intonation, balance, and tone quality, while learning how phrasing, dynamics and articulations can add emotion to any piece of music.