Stephen Trask

Personal life Trask resides in Lexington, Kentucky, with his husband Michael Trask, who is a professor at the University of Kentucky. They were married by their neighbor, former state senator Kathy Stein.

Trask grew up in Connecticut in a Jewish household. He also went to Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah. Both his parents were involved in the synagogue and his father was head of the youth program there. His mother's maiden name is Rhodes.

Influences Trask has named John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, Lou Reed, and Captain Beefheart as his primary musical influences.