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Lynn Trapp enjoys a distinguished career as concert organist,
conductor, composer and liturgist. With his ongoing performances
and clinician work across the country, conducting engagements
in the U.S. and abroad, articles for journals, and publications
of keyboard and choral music with several major publishers, he
is highly respected as a leader in church music. In recent years
he has conducted choir performance tours abroad to Italy, Germany,
Austria, Ireland, England, Holy Land, Spain, Portugal,
Czech Republic, and Poland.
His debut as conductor at Carnegie Hall, New York
City, took place in June, 2007 where, under his baton the New
England Symphonic Ensemble and chorus performed Te Deum by Otto
Olsson.
A national competition winner at the organ, he is
a artist-clinician with World Library Publications, Chicago, IL.
Since 1996 he has served as Director of Worship/Music, Organist/Pianist
at St. Olaf Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis where he directs
an extensive liturgical program including radio and television
ministry. In 2001, he directed the installation of the 67 rank
pipe Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the church and later released
the premiere recording on the instrument, Recital in the City.
Dr. Trapp is the recipient of many academic and
service awards including the prestigious Presser Scholar Award,
and the international Spirit and Truth Award from the University
of Notre Dame for
contributions to the liturgy and music field. He holds degrees
from Southern Illinois University (BM), University of Notre Dame
(MM), and after beginning doctoral work at the Eastman School
of Music, completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University
of Kansas. He performed his DMA lecture recital, The Legacy of
André Marchal at St.-Germain-des-Prés in Paris,
France. His organ teachers have been Marianne Webb, Craig Cramer,
Catharine Crozier, James Higdon, and Michael Bauer.
Lynn serves as co-director of the annual Conference
on Music, Liturgy and the Arts at St. John¹s University,
Collegeville, Minnesota.
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