Pipe Organ rededication

On Sunday, March 25th at 4:00 p.m. St. Paul Lutheran Church of Jackson will celebrate the rededication of their restored and enlarged pipe organ. Dr. Lynn Trapp, organist will present a recital that afternoon. St. Paul's Adult Choir will also present a special anthem for the occasion. The program for the afternoon includes works by Walther, Bach, Brahms, Alain and Boulanger. A free-will offering will be taken to support the "Music at St. Paul" Concert Series.

Dr. Lynn Trapp holds a distinguished career as concert organist, choral conductor, composer and liturgist. He is highly respected for his solo performances and clinician work at churches, universities, and conferences, as conductor in the U.S. and abroad, and many publications of organ and choral music with several major publishers.

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 television and radio broadcasts. At St. Olaf he directed the installation of the 67 rank Lively-Fulcher pipe organ in 2001 and made its first cd recording, Recital in the City.

As co-director of the Twin Cities Pilgrimage Choir he has conducted numerous choir performance tours to more than ten European countries and the Middle East including performances at the Vatican in Rome and the great cathedrals of France, England, Spain and others. His debut as conductor at Carnegie Hall, New York City, took place in 2007 conducting the New England Symphonic Ensemble and Chorus.

A lengthy list of career engagements includes serving as co-conductor and organist of the 700 member choir for the internationally televised Papal Mass of World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II in Denver, CO.; serving as composer in residence at the New York City Liturgical School of Music and St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, MO; Artistic Director of Cracovia Cantat, an international choral festival in Krakow, Poland.

For several years he directed music for the national liturgy conference at the University of Notre Dame. He was founder of annual church music conferences in Lawrence, KS and Cheyenne, WY, and for seven years served as co-director of the Conference on Music, Liturgy and the Arts at St. John's University, Collegeville, MN. He has served as music instructor at North Central University in Minneapolis, and organ faculty for Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN in conjunction with St. Olaf College. He serves as faculty for the national program Music Ministry Alive at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN.

Lynn is the recipient of many awards including the prestigious National Presser Foundation Award and the international Spirit and Truth Award from the University of Notre Dame. He is the winner of several organ playing competitions including the national undergraduate competition of Ottumwa, Iowa. 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. His college level organ teachers have been Marianne Webb, Catharine Crozier, Craig Cramer, Russell Saunders, Michael Bauer and James Higdon.

Dr. Trapp is director of the Twin Cities chapter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and member of the national Board of Directors of NPM. His career archives are established in perpetuity at the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame.

He is a native of Perryville, MO and a 1981 graduation of Perryville High School. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Karen.

See lynntrapp.com