Music at United Church on the Green

Music is an integral part of worship at United Church and an important element of the congregation's outreach to the greater New Haven community. The gracefully proportioned 1815 meeting house provides a superb acoustical and visual setting for music in worship and in concert and houses a superb 3-manual mechanical-action pipe organ two grand pianos, and a single-manual Italian-style harpsichord.

Ample parking is available for concerts near the meeting house in the Yale lot behind Hendrie Hall (entrance off Temple Street) and on the street.

Mark Brombaugh is Director of Music and Organist at United Church on the Green. A graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University, he has held church positions in several states in which he directed multiple choirs. Prior to coming to New Haven in 1992 he taught organ, harpsichord and church music at Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and at the Universities of Illinois and Oregon. Dr. Brombaugh is well-known as an organ and harpsichord recitalist and clinician throughout the United States and is past national secretary of The Organ Historical Society.

United Church Choir

The United Church Choir is a twenty-five voice choir with a core of professional singers performing a wide variety of choral music from the Renaissance to the present day. In addition to singing for the church's regular Sunday worship services, the choir presents major works with orchestral accompaniment in several concerts each year. In recent years the choir has performed the complete Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach, masses by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak and Saint-Saëns, Requiems by Mozart, Brahms and Duruflé, the Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms, Chichester Psalms by Bernstein, and the complete Handel Messiah.

Membership in the choir is open to all who enjoy singing.

Click here for the CHOIR CALENDAR.

Contact Mark Brombaugh for more information.

Rehearsals are at United Church on Thursday at 7:30pm.

Handbell Choir

United and Center Church Handbell Choir

The Handbell Choir plays a 4-octave set of English Handbells. The choir plays for worship services at both United and Center Churches, and plays occasional concerts throughout the community. Membership is open to the greater New Haven community.

Basic music reading ability is necessary.

Click here for the CHOIR CALENDAR.

Contact Mark Brombaugh for more information.

Rehearsals are at United Church on Tuesday at 5:30pm.

Concert Calendar

Concerts and Worship Services with Special Music

United Church Choir
Sunday, February 10, 2008
4:00 p.m.
(Free Admission - Donations Accepted)

Lord Nelson Mass
by Franz Joseph Haydn
Magnificat
by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for Two Trumpets
by Antonio Vivaldi

United Church Choir & Soloists
Marilyn Newman, mezzo-soprano soloist
Ken Tedeschi & Michael Flynt, trumpet soloists
Orchestra and Organ

Great Organ Masterpieces
Mark Brombaugh, Organist
Sunday, April 20, 2008
4:00 p.m.
(Free Admission - Donations Accepted)

Music by
J. S. Bach, Georg Böhm
Robert Schumann, John Eggert
and Charles Villiers Stanford

Requiem by Johannes Brahms
with full orchestra
Sunday, May 18, 2008
4:00 p.m.
at First Congregational Church (UCC)
1009 Main Street
Branford, CT 06406
(Free Admission - Donations Accepted)