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Welcome to ST Sacred Music.
Stephen Tappe is a composer, arranger, conductor, choir trainer, organist, liturgist, editor, and engraver based near Denver, Colorado. This site offers access to compositions and commissions as well as to arranging, music engraving and editing services. Mr. Tappe is available as a guest conductor for choral workshops and retreats. He is also available for interim work as an organist and director. Please do not hesitate to contact him with any questions regarding his services or the printing and pricing of commissions and published works.
​Thank you for visiting!

/Published Works
​/Commissions
/Arranging/Editing
/Music Engraving
/Choral Training
​/Guest Conducting

Choral training & 
​Guest conducting

If you are planning a choir retreat or festival or any event where a different conductor's perspective might benefit your singers, Mr. Tappe offers choral training & guest conducting services.

Arranging &
​Editing

Your musical ideas may be enhanced by engaging ST Sacred Music to arrange them for particular instruments & voices, transforming them into full, printable compositions for larger forces. ​

Music Copying &
​Engraving

ST Sacred Music uses Sibelius notation software to engrave your handwritten or unformatted compositions into a printable work.

Biography

Stephen Tappe served as Organist and Director of Music at Saint John’s Cathedral, Denver, from 2004 to 2018. Degrees in Composition, Organ Performance, and Liturgy were earned at the Hartt School of Music, the Yale School of Music, and the Yale Divinity School, respectively. He has served, in various official capacities, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Royal School of Church Music in America, the American Guild of Organists, the American Boychoir, and the General Board of Examining Chaplains of the Episcopal Church. He feels particularly honored to have managed four organ restoration projects: a 1929 IV/49 E. M. Skinner, an 1869 II/14 E. & G. G. Hook, a 1938 IV/96 W. W. Kimball, and an 1899 II/17 W. W. Kimball.