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Eric Gombert became Director for Music at Trinity in September 2000 after serving as Associate Director of Music since October 1997 and Associate Parish Musician since February 1995.
Prior to changing his primary career in 1997, Eric was an MIS Manager for a moving company, making him a technological, as well as musical, asset to Trinity.
Eric assists other staff with duties related to electronic services including web/internet, telephones, and computer network. |
Eric began his music studies at the age of six, first studying piano and later most woodwind instruments prior to beginning organ lessons while in the seventh grade. He was born and raised in the Lehigh Valley, PA, area where he graduated from Whitehall High School. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree with a concentration in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ, where he was an organ student of Dr. Donald McDonald. Eric sees his role at Trinity as part of a musical team, which proclaims the Gospel through the use of a wide variety of musical resources and ensembles. Eric is a member of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. In addition to his work at Trinity, Eric teaches both piano and organ, directs the Brittany Pointe Songsters, and occasionally performs as accompanist or solo in the community, including a recent opportunity as primary musician for a liturgy at the National Conference of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians in New York City. Eric and his partner of seven years, Matthew, and cat, Sabbath, recently moved into their new home in nearby Franconia Township.
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