Photo courtesy of Kaitlin Parks
Kaitlin Parks
Lantern Staff
Davy Trechak is a Butler sophomore who has composed quite the story for himself in only 22 years of life. Davy is a Wichita native who attended Wichita High School East and Wichita High School Southeast. He did not graduate high school and is working on receiving his G.E.D..
“I decided to go to Butler Community College because they don’t require students enrolling to have a diploma or G.E.D., and you’re good just as long as you are working on receiving one or the other” said Trechak.
Trachak is currently a music major and plans on attending Wichita State University to continue his educational journey in receiving his master’s in music. With a master’s in music, he would like to either be a concert pianist, piano teacher, piano tuner or all of the above. For fun he would also love to own a music studio and record music for himself and for local bands.
Trechak is currently in three local bands in the Wichita area. His most well known band is the alternative-indie-grunge group Postboy. The band started three years ago with members Ryan Ginther on drums, Sean Ginther on bass guitar, Sam Shook on violin and vocals and Davy Trechak switching on the vocals, keyboard and electric guitar. Within the last three years they have played at least 40 shows in the Wichita area. Their most recent show was at Blockparty 5 a block party held at The Workroom in Wichita Saturday, Oct. 29.
His other bands include the math-rock/pop group The Somberarrows with Sam Shook, and Weston Townsley and instrumental noise-rock group Hello Morning, with Jayke Wedel and Skylar Marshall. Hello Morning was created 10 years ago with Skylar and Jayke and only two months ago added Trechak to their set.
Trechak comes from a very musical household, but has not always been a musical guy. With his mom playing violin for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra in the 1980’s, and his dad being a piano teacher for 20 years and currently becoming the head of the keyboard department at Wichita State University, there have always been instruments just lying around his house.
“When I was younger, my dad would always give me piano lessons, and I wanted nothing to do with learning to play. Musical instruments didn’t really interest me back then. My interest in music didn’t develop until I wanted to learn for myself about five years ago” Trechak explained.
Since then, he has created a deep love for classical music and my favorite composer is Chopin. His favorite piece by Chopin is “G minor Balote,” and he completely memorized this intricate piece in roughly two years. Most of the other pieces Davy memorizes take him around three months to memorize. Trechak’s love for music grows more each day with each piece that comes into his possession.
