Music Staff

Sarah Johnson joined the Trinity music staff in the fall of 2023. A native of Garland, Maine, Sarah began her organ lessons with Kevin Birch, organist and music director at Saint John’s Catholic Church in Bangor. In her undergraduate degree at Vassar College, she studied organ with Gail Archer and piano with Todd Crow. Sarah holds a Master of Sacred Music from Boston University, where she studied organ with Peter Sykes. Since beginning college, Sarah has performed in New York City at Central Synagogue, and in Boston at Old West, Trinity Copley, and Holy Name Parish. She was named an E. Power Biggs Fellow of the Organ Historical Society in 2013. Sarah was featured as a rising star and guest recitalist at the 2017 Musforum Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, and took part in a master class at Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. She is a board member of the Saint John’s Organ Society in Bangor, dedicated to the preservation of Hook Opus 288, and recently performed on their 29th annual concert series. Sarah also performed at Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, MA on their 74th and 76th annual concert series. During her time in Boston, Sarah was Organ Scholar at Holy Name Parish in West Roxbury and Assistant Librarian at the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists. Sarah is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with David Higgs.

NICHOLAS STIGALL, Organ Scholar

Nicholas Stigall is Organ Scholar at Trinity on the Green and a graduate organ student at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music.

Originally from Knoxville, TN, Nicholas completed his undergraduate degree at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He most recently spent a year as Organ Scholar at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, OR, before moving to New Haven; he has also held Organ Scholar positions at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bloomington, IN, and the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. Nicholas has achieved many awards in organ performance competitions including first prize in the Southeast Regional Competition for Young Organists and second prize in the Arthur Poister National Competition in Organ Playing. Last year, he earned the Associateship Certificate through the American Guild of Organists Certification Exams (AAGO). Nicholas is currently the National Councilor for Young Organists through AGO.

In his free time, Nicholas enjoys taking group fitness classes or drinking loose leaf tea—typically a roasted oolong. He also practices the Alexander Technique. Welcome, Nicholas!

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