Michael Olbash has been active as an organist, conductor, baritone soloist, and composer of liturgical music in the Boston and New York City metropolitan areas for nearly twenty years. In addition to his work at U.C.C. Medfield, Mr. Olbash directs the Gregorian chant schola at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Beverly and has appeared as a soloist with groups such as the Seraphim Singers, Boston Secession, and Chorus pro Musica. A graduate of Harvard University, Michael holds the M.A. in Music from the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy at St. Joseph’s College, and certificates in organ performance from the A.G.O. and N.P.M. Michael Olbash is the President of the Southeastern New England Chapter of the Choristers Guild, and the music director of the 2008 Magnificat Pilgrimage of Hope which held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in October 2008.

Michael Olbash resides in Bellingham with his wife, Mary Ann, and sons Nicholas, Maximilian, and Christoph. To contact our Minister of Music please click here.

Samples of liturgical music composed by Michael Olbash:

Click here for “Worthy Is the Lamb” for choir, organ, and brass quintet, recorded June 3, 2005, by the Gasparian Chorale at St. Paul’s Church in Cambridge, MA. (Michael Olbash, conductor; Jan Cree, soprano)

Click here for “Psalm 45: The Queen Stands At Your Right Hand” for choir, orchestra, congregation, and soprano soloist, recorded May 12, 2006, by the combined choirs at St. Joseph’s Church in Homewood, IL. (John Ligda, conductor; Carrie Marcotte, soprano)

For a sample track from the "Stepping Stone Chant Project" CD, to be released in October 2008:

Click here for “Kyrie Fons Bonitatis”, recorded October 24, 2007, by the Stepping Stone Chant Project at the Downing Family Chapel in Lyndonville, VT. (Michael Olbash, conductor)

For an unedited sample track from the "We Give Thee But Thine Own " CD, to be released later in December 2008:

Click here for “The Call ”, recorded January 12, 2008, by the Sanctuary Choir of the United Churh of Christ at St. Mary's Church in Dedham, MA. (Michael Olbash, conductor)