Staff
Marilyn Converse
Director of Handbells
Marilyn picked up her first bells in 1981, at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Pittsburgh, and has not wanted to put them down since. Four years later, she brought her love of bells to Trinity Lutheran and founded its handbell choir. She is a member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers and is currently serving as the Area 3 Maryland District Representative.
Jason Gottschalk
Cantor
Jason came to Trinity in 2009 after serving for 8 years as Director of Music and Organist at Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Greensboro, NC. He has been a Lutheran church musician for 18 years. He holds degrees in choral conducting, church music, and organ. He has directed ensembles throughout the southeastern United States and on concert tours of Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. He also directs the Dei Laudes choir, an auditioned choir of forty voices that performs throughout the southeastern United States and on tours abroad.