Music at Trinity

Around Trinity: Hiring a Music Director

One of the oddest things a church does when it gathers for worship is our singing together. It’s odd largely because very little like it happens in any other space in our culture. People rarely gather at the bar for a hearty round of singing between beers. Occasionally you’ll catch people singing along at a concert or a few of us sing in the shower when we no one is listening. But when the people of God gather to renew their covenant with God on Sundays, we sing a lot. People who’ve grown up around the church largely take it for granted, but to the average outsider music, particularly music designed to be sung primarily by the people in the room, is a strange thing. But it is the main bit of work God’s people are to do together in God’s presence. It’s not a thing that happens to us in worship, it is a thing we’re called to do together and to do it well. But we shouldn’t just sing on Sundays. We want to sing as a people all the time: parish gatherings, classes, big parties - all the time. Singing is a kind of prayer God’s people offer to God.

To that end, Trinity is hiring a music director.  In addition to overseeing and organizing accompanying musicians for Sunday worship, selecting music from a historically broad corpus of music, our prayer is that God would bring our young church a leader who will prioritize both the actual singing of the congregation and the joy of the congregation in that singing. Music is never meant to be a merely formal affair - it must help us to give expression to and cultivate real affections for God and his ways. We sing music from hymnals. We sing Psalms. We sing some contemporary music that accords with Scripture. We’ve been led from the piano, the guitar, and the violin. We’ve sung a-capella.  But we want to learn and grow as a church to sing with more joy, more skill, and in more places. If you are interested in helping lead our young church, please send inquiries to brian@trinitychurchdenver.org