Dr. Marc Alan Brunelle

Director of Liturgy & Music

As Director of Liturgy & Music at St. Marcelline, Marc is responsible for planning, coordinating and evaluating all liturgical and para-liturgical (non-Eucharistic) worship at St. Marcelline. He is also responsible for training, scheduling and formation for more than 300 liturgical ministers currently serving the parish in a variety of capacities. He serves as conductor of the thirty-voice Sanctuary Choir and the sixteen member Schola Cantorum.

In 2003, Marc produced and conducted a widely acclaimed CD featuring the Sanctuary Choir and Jubilation Ringers, as well as began an annual Spring Concert and Christmas Concert, which feature the musical forces at St. Marcelline. In 2004, the Sanctuary Choir was heard in concert at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians conference held in Chicago, and at the Catholic Festival of Faith held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in 2006. In 2018, the Choir was extended a rare invitiation to sing at Carnegie Hall celebrating the music of Mark Hayes. The choir was also featured on an episode of Sing4Him on Shalom World TV. 

At a special invitation by the Vatican, the Sanctuary Choir traveled to Italy to be the principle choir at a Solemn High Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City, the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, and performed a highly acclaimed, sold out concert at the Church of the Gesu in the city of Rome in December of 2006. In the summer of 2008, the Choir had a very successful tour of Prague, Austria and Germany, with sold out concerts at St. Nicholas in Prague and St. Peter's in Vienna and sang a Solemn High Mass at Salzburg Cathedral. In the summer of 2011, Dr. Brunelle led a concert tour of Barcelona, Madrid and Montserrat, Spain, presenting a series of concerts of spirituals from the Deep South.

In 2016, Marc co-founded and serves as Artistic Director of Eclectic Choral Artists, Inc., a semi-professional choral emsemble performing in the Northwest Suburbs.

Previously to coming to Chicago, Marc was Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Chapel Music at Wadhams Hall Seminary-College, and Director of Music & Liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint Mary in upstate NY, as well as music consultant for the Diocese of Ogdensburg, NY. Dr. Brunelle holds the Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from Rhode Island College, School of Music, and the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from King's College, Cambridge, England, while studying with renowned English conductor, Sir David Willcocks, and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Graduate Theological Seminary, and is in demand as a clinician in choral technique throughout the US.

Dr. Alexander Zintchenko

Associate Organist

Alexander Zintchenko was born in Debaljtzewo (Ukraine) in 1958 and began his musical education at the age of seven. He studied in Kiev and Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including with Tatjana Krawtschenko. His extraordinary pianistic talent enabled him already to play works like the Schumann symphonic Etudes or the mass in b minor-publicly perform Sonata of Liszt. Alexander Zintchenko toured large parts of the former Soviet Union as a soloist and appeared in solo recitals and with various orchestras in Lenin-grad, Kiev and Novosibirsk. In 1991, the pianist continued his solo and educational activities in Poland. From there, concert tours took him to the Czech Republic, Germany and in the United States.

Alexander Zintchenko moved in the year 1995 to the United States. Here he lives and works in Chicago. His repertoire includes all major works in the piano literature. In the United States, Alex recorded a CD with music of Chopin and Rachmaninoff. In the past two years Alexander concertized in Europe the United States, and in Australia. Along with the new Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra he interpreted Rachmaninov's second and third Piano Concerto.