Director of Music

Trent N. Ellis

B. Mus., B. Ch. Mus., M. Mus.

Trent N. Ellis has been the Director of Music at Church of St. Michael the Archangel since 1972.  He is the Past-Chair  Dean of the Colorado Springs Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Chair of the Colorado Vocal Council, Past-Chair of the Colorado All-State Choirs, and Instructor of Music Education at The Colorado College.  He is the past Director of Vocal Music and Department Chair of Thomas B. Doherty High School and serves as a clinician and adjudicator of high school choirs in the mid-west.

The Adult Choir

The Adult Choir has approximately 22 singers singing a variety of choral styles ranging from the Renaissance to the Contemporary Periods.  The choir sings for the 10:30 a.m. service each Sunday, September through June and special Feast Days.  The choir annually presents a service of Lessons and Carols and a large work with instruments during the Spring.  The Choir has sung the Vivaldi Gloria, Rutter Requiem, and selections from Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’ German Requiem with members of the Colorado Springs Symphony.

The Bells of St. Michael's

There are 10 ringers in the Hand Bell Choir playing two and one half octaves of Schulmerich Hand Bells.  The church utilizes a Verdin Carillon for additional seasonal music in the Memorial Gardens.     

The Pipe Organ

A pipe organ was installed by Wilson and Associates of Colorado Springs in August 2003.  The instrument is the result of over eight years of planning and is the expansion and relocation of an instrument completed in 1965 by the Andover Organ Company.  The organ was dedicated in  June, 2004.

ORGAN SPECIFICATIONS

CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL

7400 TUDOR ROAD

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

 Original instrument built by the Andover Organ Company, Methuen, MA.

Additions and installation by Wilson and Associates, Colorado Springs, CO

Great, Swell, Positive I and II, and Pedal actions are electro-mechanically controlled from a three manual console of three reverse color manuals and pedal housed in a solid oak case.

The pipes (63 ranks) located in five divisions are placed in an oak case speaking directly into the nave of the church.

Pipes

Couplers

The console also utilizes a Kurzweil PC88MX synthesizer and a Content 220 sound module with the use of eight MIDI channels.

 St. Mary’s Hall also houses a smaller 16 stop tracker instrument installed in 1978.