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Clergy / Staff / Vestry
Gene Traas, Organist and Choirmaster
gene@trinitywauwatosa.org
Gene Traas was born, raised and received most of his education in northern New Jersey. He holds degrees from William Paterson University and New Brunswick (NJ) Theological Seminary. Traas' organ tutors have included John R. Rodland, David Drinkwater, Martin Jean and E. Robert Irwin.
Gene has held church music posts in New Jersey, Michigan and Wisconsin. He has held the position of Organist and Choirmaster of Trinity since 1999. In addition to church music, he has acted as a synagogue organist, and provided musical scores for silent film and radio theater performances. In 2002 he was the founder of The Organ Project in conjunction with the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee: The Organ Project was a program which offered inexpensive formal organ study to non-organists pressed into service at their churches.
In his leisure time, Gene is an instrument-rated pilot, which is not much of a stretch considering the other machinery he handles with both hands and feet; an audio enthusiast currently working on a CD entitled "Self-Portrait;" a maker of home-brewed beers and honey mead; and a computer literate. He lives in the far northwest end of Milwaukee with his wife, the former Laura Marie Forst, and three highly vocal cats.
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Gene Traas, Organist and Choirmaster
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