Choir
The choirs of Trinity Church trace their origin to Trinity's first Chief Musician, Justin Appel. In 2005 a group of five singers began to meet with him in weekly a capella rehearsals, those beginnings culminating in the choir's first offering of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols during Christmas of that year. Under Justin's leadership, and that ably assisted by both his wife Kate and various permutations of our current Music Committee, the choral program has expanded, ministering both to the saints of Trinity Church and throughout the Wenatchee and Upper Valleys.
The choirs rehearse during All Church activities on Wednesday nights, replete with Supper, a Musical Nursery for the little ones up to age four, and rehearsals for Lil' Prep (four to eight years of age), Youth (eight to twelve), and Adult Choirs. The training is directed to both dedicated choristers and, more broadly, any and all congregants wishing to sing with increasing skillfulness and loudness in the Lord's Day Service and beyond. The aim is straight forward: equipping the saints to glorify God through the deeper-than-words medium of music, evident in trained choral offerings as well as, more broadly, leading and encouraging the congregation in singing the Church's Song back to its God. These intersect wonderfully in the choir's weekly Introits to the Lord's Day Service, leadership in song during Feast Day Services, leadership in prayer during Evensong Services, and the now-traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at Christmas-time.
The choirs of Trinity Church see themselves as serving the Church, as vocationally engaged in the life of that Church. This distinctive, like so many distinctives in the musical life of Trinity Church, flows out of years of musical leadership provided by Justin Appel, Interim Chief Musician Melanie Hall, and our newest Chief Musician, Jeffrey Eifert.
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