Trent Johnson - Organist and Composer

Hello, and welcome to my website!

Upcoming Events

*October 2008, Trent accompanies

the Silent film "Nosferatu" (1922)

one of the earliest Dracula films

on the Mighty Aeolian Skinner

Westfield, NJ

Recent Concerts

*July 2008, Trent leads

a Masterworks Chorus Summer Sing

in Haydn's Creation

at the College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ

*April 2008, World Premiere

of Trent's viola concerto

Brett Deubner violist, Valery Matiukhin conductor

with the Kyiv Kamerata at the Kyiv Music Festival, in Kyiv, Ukraine

*April 2008, Trent's trumpet concerto

is performed at the

Kyiv Music Festival, in Kyiv, Ukraine

with David Glukh, trumpet

*April 2008, Trent premiered his

Elegy, a new work for organ and string orchestra

at the Chernobyl Memorial Concert

in Kyiv, Ukraine

*April 2008, Trent performs an organ recital

on the Rieger-Kloss organ

at the House of Organ and Chamber Music

in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine

*April 2008, Trent performs

a trumpet and organ concert

with trumpet player David Glukh,

in Westfield, New Jersey

*April 2008, Trent narrates

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

for the Mixed Flock Orchestra Project,

in Maplewood, New Jersey

*April 2008, Trent is the organist

and orchestra in Alfred R.Gaul's

The Holy City, at St. George's Episcopal Church

in Brooklyn, New York

*March 2008, Trent conducted

the Oratorio Singers, soloists, chorus and orchestra

in Bach's B Minor Mass, Westfield, New Jersey

*January 2008, Trent accompanied Charlie Chaplin's silent film

Triple Trouble (1918), on the Mighty Aeolian-Skinner organ

of the First United Methodist Church, Westfield, New Jersey

for the New Jersey Chapter of the American Guild of Organists

*December 2007, Trent accompanied the Baroque Chorale,

in Handel's Messiah with orchestra

led by Dr. Byerte Johnson in Montclair, New Jersey

*December 2007, Trent was the organist and orchestra

for Handel's Messiah,

for the Choral Art Society in Westfield, New Jersey,

led by conductor, James Little

*December 2007, Trent gave an Advent organ recital

and accompanied the Lessons and Carol Service

at St. George's Episcopal Church

Brooklyn, New York

* November 2007, Trent's arrangement of Ukuthula

is performed by Thula Sizwe of South Africa,

the Halcyon Trio, and the Mixed Flock Orchestra Project,

at William Paterson University, in Wayne, NJ

*October 2007, Trent accompanied the silent film classic

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920),

performed on the 55 rank Aeolian-Skinner organ

at the First United Methodist Church, Westfield, NJ

*October 2007, Trent was the organist an orchestra

for Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

with the Brooklyn Ecumenical Choir

at St. George's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York

*October 2007, Trent performed organ works

of Karg-Elert, Vaughan Williams and Gigout

for the Musical Club of Westfield

*June 2007, Trent performed

Undine Smith Moore's

Scenes from the Life of a Martyr

with the Brooklyn Ecumenical Choir, Brooklyn, New York

*March 2007, Trent conducted

the Oratorio Singers and Orchestra

in Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt,

in Westfield, New Jersey

*February 2007, Trent accompanied the

Calvary Chorale in Handel's Messiah, Summit, NJ.

*January 2007, Trent gave a joint organ recital with fellow

Radio City organist Bob Maidhof

at Radio City Music Hall, NYC.

*January 2007, Trent accompanied the Choral Art Society of NJ

in Mendelssohn's Elijah, Westfield, NJ.

*December 2006, Trent was the organist

for the annual Christmas Concert at

St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York City.

*December 2006, Trent was the organist

for the Baroque Chorale's Messiah, Dr. Byerte Johnson, conductor,

with tenor George Shirley in Montclair, New Jersey.

*December 2006, Trent was the organist

for the New Jersey Concert Opera's

Messiah-Sing, Robert Butts, conductor,

Westfield, New Jersey.

*December 2006, Trent was the organist

and orchestra for Handel's Messiah,

The Choral Art Society, James Little, conductor,

Westfield, New Jersey.

*November 2006, Trent appears on the ABC television

gameshow Jeopardy! He played the show's theme music for

Final Jeopardy! on the Mighty Wurlitzer of Radio City Music Hall.

* October 2006, Trent Johnson accompanied the silent film,

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

at The First United Methodist Church, Westfield, NJ.

*June 2006, Trent Johnson was the organist and orchestra for

Mendelssohn's Elijah at Janes United Church in Brooklyn, NYC.

*May 2006, Trent Johnson was the organist and orchestra for the

Mozart Requiem at Alice Tully Hall, New York City.