October 28, 2018
By: Bill Conger
Our band series ends today on Hunter Davis, a senior flute and piccolo player with the D-C-H-S Fighting Tiger Band. Davis, the daughter of Chad and Danielle Troyer, is part of the woodwind section that performs music from “The Phantom of the Opera” this marching season.
“It’s my favorite musical, so I was really excited about it,” says Davis.
Hunter started the marching band as a freshman student at Smith County High School and then transferred to DeKalb County her sophomore year.
Hunter was one of three band seniors recognized at the final home football game of the season Friday night.
“My mom and grandparents are here,” Davis told WJLE during halftime. “My dad woke up. It’s actually 3 a.m. in Kuwait. He woke up to watch us.”
Hunter first started in music when she was in sixth grade.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to play, and I thought the flute sounded really pretty. A lady at my grandparents’ church actually played it. I liked how it sounded. During my freshman year, my best friend was a junior. She got band queen and made me march piccolo to have that sound.”
What does Davis enjoy about being a member of the high school band?
“The sense of family, going to different places that I never knew existed, and I really like the football games, making new friends, and seeing kids start when they’re in sixth grade and watching them mature as they go through.”
After graduating in May, Hunter plans to major in Chemistry as part of her pre-med pathway at Tennessee Tech. One day she wants to be a Pediatrician. In the meantime, she doesn’t want her interest in music to end. She wants to either do marching or concert band at Tech.