Mark Trautman, conductor, is Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra and Director of Music at Christ Church in New Brunswick. His orchestral conducting has been described as "clear and communicative" by Classical New Jersey and he has conducted a wide variety of literature with the NBCO, including works by Bartók, Copland, William Grant Still, and more. At Christ Church, he directs the city’s largest church music program and coordinates more than forty concerts a year on the church’s unique Richards, Fowkes & Company mechanical action pipe organ. He earned degrees in organ performance, choral conducting, and church music with honors from Towson University in Baltimore and Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany. He is the winner of numerous scholarships and awards, and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, a national music honors society. Mr. Trautman has performed in the United States and Europe as an accompanist, conductor, and organist. In addition he has served as an adjudicator for events sponsored by the American Choral Directors’ Association, the American Guild of Organists, and the New Jersey Folk Festival.