Music at First Parish

Adult Choir

First Parish has an active Adult Choir. All members of the parish are welcome to join the choir. There are no auditions and there is room for all voices. Choir practices on Sunday mornings before the worship service.

Fundraising and Other Activities

We have an ongoing fundraising program for the restoration of our Church's historic 1906 Hook and Hastings pipe organ. The program, entitled "The Elizabeth Smith Memorial Fund" has been very successful. We have had a rich and varied group of talented performers that have graciously assisted our cause. Jazz pianist Eyran Katsenelenbogen, singer-songwriter Dawna Hammers, classical pianist Dr. Kenneth Wolf, and featured works by Duxbury composer Larence Smith are but a few of the performers we have had the pleasure of hosting at our benefit concerts held in the Church Sanctuary.

Our Musical Director/Organist

Beth Dubuisson was born in Rochester, New York in 1958. She completed the music preparatory program at the Eastman School of Music, and received a bachelor's degree in music education from Indiana University with high distinction. She taught music briefly in the Gloucester public school system and was organist for the Christian Science Church in Gloucester. Beth taught piano privately at the Mary Johnson Piano Studio in Newburyport, and later became music director and organist at the People's United Methodist Church in Newburyport. She married David Dubuisson in 1986 and began her own piano studio in Wayland. Since 1989, she has been a judge for the National Guild of Piano Teachers. She has been active in various local, state and national music teachers' associations. Beth currently teaches piano at her home in Duxbury. She became music director of First Parish Church of Scituate in the Fall of 2006. She has two teenage daughters, Jillian and Sophie, and a step-daughter, Eva. She enjoys book club, tennis, and walking her cockapoo dogs.