Music

The music in our services feature a fine Steinway grand piano and a custom pipe organ built by the Boston based Aeolian Skinner company. Aeolian Skinner is best known for building pipe organs for five of the foremost symphony orchestras in America including the organ at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center. Guest instrumentalists are often featured in special services.

Our services also feature two fine voices; Tenor Michael-Paul Krubitzer and Nina Bruckner on the piano and the Organ. Our church service features wonderful music upholding the saying by St. Augustine "He who sings prays twice".

Scott Rubén LaMarca

Tenor Scott Rubén La Marca is pursuing his studies at the Yale School of Music. In 2024 he was a grant winner in the Career Bridges Foundation, an encouragement award recipient in the Laffont Competition, and the Alternate winner of the Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition at the Manhattan School of Music. Scott has performed at the Art Song Preservation Society of New York, Sun Valley Opera, and a French Art song and Cabaret performance on Broadway. He was a resident artist with The New York Festival of Song in Orient Point and participated in the Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program at Caramoor. He has sung Contino Belfiore in Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Harlekin in Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Manhattan School of Music and Ismael in Bel Canto at the Aspen Music Festival. In December 2024 he will sing the role of Charles Darwin in the Yale School of Music's premiere of Mariano Fernandez' Darwin en Patagonia. In the spring of 2025 he will perform the roles of Edoardo and Ramon in the double bill production of La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini) / La Navarraise (Massenet) for the Yale Opera.

 

Nina Bruckner, pianist and organist

Daughter of a military officer in the former USSR army, Nina Bruckner's childhood and adolescence were split between Ukraine and Belarus. The family moved a lot, and the most valuable item in the household was the piano- a present from her father for her fifth birthday. That marked the beginning of a lifelong passion for music. She graduated from the State Conservatory in Minsk, cum laude, with a degree in piano performance. She has worked as an accompanist with opera singers, violinist, and cellists. She became the head of the educational program in a college of music, where she mentored a new generation of piano teachers. For the last 30 years she has resided in Stamford CT and maintained her extensive private practice as a piano teacher. Her students have participated in numerous festivals, competitions, and concerts. She enjoys collaborating with other musicians and singers.