Dr. Lynn Trapp, Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Joseph’s Parish in Baltimore, MD will share some of his research from the 2026 Residency in the J. Michael Joncas Library at CMI.

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Dr. Lynn Trapp is Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Baltimore, MD where he maintains a career as concert organist, pianist, conductor, composer and liturgist.

As organ recitalist he has performed in many major cities of the U.S. and Europe including regional and national conventions of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and the American Guild of Organists.  He has served as clinician and choral conductor at conventions of AGO, ACDA, NPM and liturgical conferences around the country.  Since 1997, as co-director of the American Pilgrimage Choir he has led concert tours to thirteen European countries and the Middle East.

His nearly 100 choral and keyboard compositions are published by eight mainline publishers.

He is the winner of several national organ competitions, and recipient of academic awards including the Distinguished Alumnus award from Southern Illinois University and the Spirit and Truth Award from the University of Notre Dame.

He received the BMus degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and MM in Music/Liturgy from the University of Notre Dame.  His DMA is from the University of Kansas where his doctoral project, The Legacy of Andre Marchal, was presented in lecture recital at St.-Germain des Pres in Paris, France.  In 2011 the University of Notre Dame invited him to establish his career archives at the Hesburgh Library.

Lynn is a native of Missouri and married to Karen Rene Trapp.
www.lynntrapp.com