EX-PERRYVILLE MAN SET TO PERFORM IN DENVER, COLO.

A former Perryville man has been selected to conduct the mass choir for the World Youth Day mass with Pope John Paul II in Denver, Colo., in August.

Lynn Trapp has been chosen by the United States Catholic Conference in conjunction with the National Council of Catholic Bishops to co-conduct the 800-member choir and to serve as organist and principle keyboardist for the papal mass.

In addition, Trapp was one of three composers commissioned to write music for the celebration.

In December, Trapp was invited to serve on a board of five experts in liturgical music, charged with the responsibility of arranging and preparing all the musical and liturgical events surrounding the papal visit.

Trapp is the director of chapel music and organist at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. He directs a university chapel music ministry program with 120 collegians each academic year. The program includes three choirs, a cantor school and concert series.

Trapp is active nationally as a concert organist, choral conductor and composer, and is recognized as a leading force in the liturgical music of the American Church.

He is founder and director of the National Institute for Music and Liturgy, held annually at St. Lawrence Center.

Trapp is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Trapp of Perryville.

World Youth Day is a gathering of youths from around the world who meet every other year with the holy father for catechesis, sanctification and prayer. This is the first time the event will be held in the U.S. since it began in 1985. The papal mass will be broadcast on CBS and CNN.