Melanie Rucinski, Accompanist

Melanie Rucinski is a freelance pianist based in the Boston area. She has recently performed with the Cambridge Community Chorus, where she was interim accompanist during the 2023-24 season, NEMPAC Opera Project, and Metropolitan Chorale. Previously, Melanie was a collaborative pianist with the Boston Children’s Chorus, Promenade Opera Project, and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training. Melanie has worked with Opera on Tap and La Ti Do Cabaret in Washington, D.C., where she also played for the world premier of the comic opera Do Not Disturb at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival. If you look closely, you can catch her playing piano at the middle school graduation in Defending Jacob on Apple TV.

Melanie holds a Ph.D. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Harvard College, where she played oboe in the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and music directed productions of Next to Normal and The Last Five Years. She is currently a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.