An active organ recitalist, Mr. Johnson frequently performs in the major churches of New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, Northern New Jersey, Europe and Asia. He has recorded the organ works of Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker for Albany Records and is a frequent collaborator with brass instrumentalists. Trent is a fan of silent films and has provided improvised organ accompaniments to silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, and Rudolph Valentino. 

As a composer, he has written numerous works for chorus and orchestra, for orchestra, concertos, chamber music, song cycles, piano works, organ pieces and a full-length opera, entitled Kenyatta. Mr. Johnson is the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer, funding from the NEA, and is the recipient of the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in composition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City.