Music Staff

Simon Lee is Director of Music at Trinity on the Green Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut. He holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Yale University and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied under the tutelage of Marguerite L. Brooks, Jeffrey Douma and David Hill. During his time at Yale, he was conductor of the Marquand Chapel Choir at Yale Divinity School, the Morse Chorale and temporarily the Director of Music at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, New Haven. Born and raised in the North West of England, Simon began his musical career as a chorister at Lancaster Priory. He studied clarinet and saxophone performance at Leeds University where he was also a choral scholar at Leeds R.C. Cathedral. Upon graduation from Leeds in 2009, he moved to Durham to take up the post of Tenor Lay Clerk at the Cathedral. He completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education in Primary Education at Durham University in 2012, and having done this, taught in schools across the North East of England, combining his teaching with a career as a conductor and singer. His has directed choirs across the UK, including Voices of the River’s Edge, a community youth choir based as the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead which appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the BBC Proms in 2024. 

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.

Gavin Klein is currently pursuing a degree in Organ Performance at Yale University. He is a recent graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where he earned a B.A. in Music and Economics. While at Holy Cross, Gavin studied organ with Dr. Ezequiel Menéndez. His previous teachers include Henry Mason, William Ness, Kevin Neel, as well as Dr. Johann Klopp, with whom he studied harpsichord and clavichord. In 2025, Gavin was named in The Diapason magazine’s “20 Under 30” and won second place in the National Undergraduate Organ Competition in Ottumwa, Iowa. Gavin’s musical journey began at a young age, singing in the choir at All Saint’s Episcopal Church in Worcester, MA— something which he credits as the reason he loves both organ and sacred music. He is currently the Organ Scholar at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, and his past positions include Organ Scholar at Holy Cross, Organist at St. Bernard Catholic Parish in Worcester, and Artist-in-Residence at the Harvard Historical Society. When not at the organ console, Gavin loves the outdoors, especially fishing, hiking, and sailing. 

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