Michael Messina is
Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church,
Indianapolis and Organist at St. Richard's School, positions he has
held since 1995. Under his leadership, the Choir and Choristers of
Trinity traveled to England in the summer of 2002 and sang the daily
services for a week each at Winchester and Chichester cathedrals.
Last year with Steven Rickards, he co-founded Meridian Vocal
Consort, a sixteen voice professional choir. Mr. Messina taught for
Marilyn Keiser at Indiana University-Bloomington during her most
recent sabbatical.
He has taught and administered the Leadership
Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations in the Episcopal
Diocese of Indianapolis and has been a member of the Board of the
Association of Anglican Musicians as Director-at-Large. Mr. Messina
holds DMA and MMus degrees in Organ Performance and Literature and
the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and
the BMus degree magna cum laude in Church Music from Saint Olaf
College, where he also sang in the Saint Olaf Choir. His teachers
were Russell Saunders, John Ferguson and Kenneth Jennings. In 1996,
Mr. Messina was selected to be one of seven semifinalists in the
National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance sponsored by
the American Guild of Organists.
