Todd Skrabanek was born in San Antonio, Texas on Sept. 18th, 1966. His parents worked in the technology business and soon realized that their son had an unusual affinity for music. He began noodling on a rented piano at 4 and began piano lessons at 6 after the family relocated to Atlanta. At age 7 he joined the Atlanta Boy Choir and toured Rome and Vienna with the celebrated ensemble. Displaying a keen reading ability and perfect pitch, he began piano study with acclaimed conductor/pianist William Noll in 1976. Noll encouraged Todd's technique through a comprehensive study of exercises and nurtured his taste for fine music with challenging repertoire.

By age 16, he won or placed nationally in many piano competitions, including the Atlanta Music Club, Atlanta Steinway Society, National Federation of Music Clubs, Young Keyboard Artists Association, and the Florida State University Paulina Granville Scholarships (he would meet his wife-to-be, a fellow Noll student, at this FSU summer program). His senior year, he was drum major at Marist School and received numerous scholarship offers from music colleges and conservatories around the country.

Skrabanek accepted a piano performance scholarship at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (later to be the University of the Arts). He studied with acclaimed pianist and teacher Susan Starr, who had been a pupil of Rudolf Serkin and played with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 9. In 1987, Todd won the school's concerto competition and played Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto with the UA orchestra, Joseph Primavera conducting. He also won the regional Upper Darby Piano Competition as a senior. After graduating with honors, he returned to Atlanta and became the rehearsal pianist for the Atlanta Opera, accompanist for the Atlanta Opera Studio, and classical tea pianist at The Ritz-Carlton Atlanta. At 21, he was pianist in the Opera orchestra for 4 productions of R. Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Skrabanek became well known as a highly musical and supportive accompanist, playing regularly for the Choral Guild of Atlanta, the Choraliers of the Candler School of Theology and the Glenn Memorial United Methodist choir at Emory, and the Dorsey Studios for the Performing Arts.

During this time, Todd studied jazz for 3 years under the innovative pianist and pedagogue Ted Howe. In 1996, he became Director of Music at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Dunwoody and began writing Psalm Responses for the Liturgy. He completed a Master of Music with honors in 1998 at Georgia State University as a full-scholarship graduate assistant under the chamber pianist Cary Lewis, acclaimed for his intriguing tone color. He started his affiliation with the Capitol City Opera that year.

On May 29th, 1999, he was reunited with his life partner, and they were married by Oct. 2000. In winter of 2000, Todd became an artist affiliate at Agnes Scott College, teaching piano and accompanying voice lessons. He also became accompanist for the Harmony International Youth Chorus. In fall of 2001, Todd was hired as accompanist for the Grammy winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Norman Mackenzie, Chorus Master., and in Sept. 2002, joined the roster of keyboardists for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor. In 2003 he traveled to Berlin to accompany vocal warmups and sing with the chorus and the Berlin Philharmonic in 3 definitive performances of the Britten War Requiem, Donald Runnicles conducting. That December the ASO and ASOC sang to critical acclaim in Carnegie Hall with their sweeping performances of Vaughan-Williams' A Sea Symphony.

In March 2004 Todd and Susan, moved to the mountains of Talking Rock, GA, with their 4 dogs, 2 cats, and 3 pianos. He is now accompanist/vocal coach at Reinhardt College in Waleska, where he accompanies the College Choir and teaches Accompanying class. He continues to play for the ASOC, Capitol City Opera, and St. Patrick's.

In composition, Todd attributes his tonal vocabulary to J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Mahler, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Bartok, Ives, Argento, Adams, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Allan Holdsworth (a big one), The Carpenters, Andre Kostenaletz, Rush, Yes, and Genesis. He says, "I love Romanticism, the books and poems of Victor Hugo, Loren Eiseley, C. S. Lewis, Neil Peart, Gray Temple, the Bible, Paglia, Rand, Hesse, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Millman, Dickinson, Rilke, Cummings. I believe that one can readily access the spiritual realm through music; that the goosebumps that you receive from prayer and music have the same source, and that is our God. My aim is to compose church music that will address the deep spiritual needs of our frantic society, with phrases that will take us to deeper realms of communion with our Creator, and to record piano music, original arrangements and electronic compositions of uncommon beauty."