Music Leadership

  • Michael T.C. Hey

    Director of Music

    Michael T. C. Hey has established himself as a reputable concert organist in the U.S. and abroad. In 2016, he was recognized as one of the top “20 Under 30” organists by The Diapason magazine. Hey performs solo and collaboratively with top American orchestras, as well as with his wife violinist Christiana Liberis in the Hey-Liberis duo. 

    Michael served as Associate Director of Music and Organist of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City from 2015 to 2023, where one of his first major tasks was to perform for the first U.S. visit of Pope Francis. Prior to St. Patrick’s, Michael served for five years as Assistant Organist at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

    In 2017, Michael received first prize in the First Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Organ Competition and released his premiere solo CD recording Michael T. C. Hey plays the Great Organ of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York by the JAV recording label. 

    A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michael graduated in 2014 from the accelerated five-year degree program at The Juilliard School, where he received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in organ performance under Paul Jacobs.

    Michael Hey is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

  • Carl Arnez Ellis III

    Interim Director of Marble Community Gospel Choir

    Bio Coming Soon

  • Joel Escher

    Director of Children & Youth Choirs

    Bio Coming Soon