Music Staff

Mr. Moore has been Director of Music of Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, since 1984, where he works with the Choir of Men and Boys, the Choir of Men and Girls, and the Parish Choir (mixed adult choir) in a regular schedule of parish services and appearances outside the walls of the church.

A 1980 graduate of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where his organ studies were with Dr. Robert Baker and Dr. Gerre Hancock, he continues to serve as clinician, guest conductor and organist for choir festivals across the nation. Mr. Moore has served as Music Director for the Royal School of Church Music in America’s courses at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (2012), Charlotte, North Carolina (2013), Newport, Rhode Island (2016), the Massachusetts Boy Choir Course (2018), and the Gulf Coast (2019). He was guest lecturer/clinician for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia’s Leadership Program for Musicians in Richmond, Virginia in the Spring of 2014. In May 2018, he was the guest conductor of the Three Choirs Hymn Festival in Norfolk, Virginia, and in February 2020 of the Treble Festival at the Cathedral of St. James, Chicago.

He is past Chair of the Music Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, having served on that commission for ten years, and has served on the Executive Board of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.  His experience in the field of practical church music has also led him to serve as a consultant in organ design for churches in Connecticut.

In 2007 he was appointed to the faculty of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music as Lecturer (adj.) in Organ, where he teaches a yearly course in Liturgical Keyboard Skills.

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.

David Preston, Organ Scholar

David Preston is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in organ at the Yale School of Music with professors Martin Jean, Carole Terry, and James O’Donnell. He previously studied under Dr. Joseph Butler at Texas Christian University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BM in Church Music.

David has performed in recitals across the United States, including the American Guild of Organists’ 2022 national convention in Seattle. He has also won numerous awards, including first prize in the 2021 Regional competition for Young Organists, and the First and Hymn Playing Excellence prizes at the 2019 William B. Hall Organ Competition. In addition to these, he has played with TCU’s wind symphony at the TMEA conference, TCU’s symphony orchestra, and played with TCU’s early music group for many years on harpsichord.

Aside from music, David enjoys reading, traveling, and visiting heritage railways. One of his hopes is to visit England both as an organist and rail enthusiast. David is the thirty-fourth in The Long Purple Line of Trinity Organ Scholars.

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