Trent Johnson - Organist and Composer

Hello, and welcome to my website!

Upcoming Events

*June 2009, Trent plays and accompanies

the Brooklyn Ecumenical Choir

in the music of Rutter, Hailstork, Roger Holland

and Negro Sprituals, Brooklyn, New York.

*June 2009, Trent performs a concert

on the 4 manual, Warren/Casavant organ

with violinist Alexandre Djokic at St. Paul's Cathedral,

London Ontario, Canada

Recent Concerts

*March 2009, Trent conducted the

Oratorio Singers, Soloists and Orchestra

in Schubert's Mass in G,

Beethoven's Christ on the Mount of Olives

and premiered Trent's "In Homage of Spring"

for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra in Westfield, NJ

*March 2009, Trent performed on the "new"

97 rank G. F. Adams organ

at the Festival of Organists

at Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church

in Plainfield, NJ

*December 2008, Trent performed with

the South African dance troupe

Thula Sizwe in New Brunswick,

and Raritan NJ

*December 2008, Trent plays Handel's Messiah

with the Choral Art Society

conducted by Jim Little, in Westfield New Jersey

*December 2008, Trent plays Handel's Messiah

with the Baroque Chorale

conducted by Dr. Byerte Johnson

in Newark and Montclair, New Jersey

*November 2008, Trent performs with the Halcyon Trio,

violinist Alex Djokic, trumpeter Lorne Graham,

tenor Kerry Stubbs, members of the Oratorio Singers,

and others at the Oratorio Singers Benefit Concert

Westfield, New Jersey

*November 2008, Trent's award-winning

trio is performed by the Halcyon Trio,

at the Woodmere Arts Collective Series,

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

*October 2008, Trent accompanies

the Silent film "Nosferatu" (1922)

on the Mighty Aeolian Skinner

at the First United Methodist Church in Westfield, NJ

*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.