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St. Luke's Instruments

The Alston Memorial Pipe Organ was dedicated in October 1963. Made by the Austin Organ Company, with additions by Cornell Zimmer in 2000, it contains eight divisions played from a five-manual console. The swell, choir, solo and positive divisions are located on the right side of the chancel, and great and pedal divisions on the left. The antiphonal division is divided and exposed in the rear of the balcony. The echo division, located at the rear of the nave, comes from an earlier Roosevelt organ of the 1880’s. With nearly five thousand pipes, the organ has 90 ranks. A secondary two-manual console was added to the rear gallery in 2020. It is one of the finest organs in the southeastern United States and is regularly featured in recital by internationally acclaimed concert artists.


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In addition, St. Luke's is blessed to have three Steinway & Sons grand pianos on its campus. The most recent

acquisition was a 1910 Model A Steinway piano for the nave, given in thanksgiving for the late Sally & Brad Currey, Jr. This piano was beautifully restored by Faust Harrison Pianos in New York City and provides support for the Music at St. Luke's series and liturgies throughout the year.

In 2020, St. Luke's acquired a single-manual harpsichord built by Richard Kingston, one of the finest harpsichord builders in the world today. The harpsichord was made possible through memorial gifts given in memory of longtime parishioner, Palmour McIntire Dodd.

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Leadership

Matthew Brown
Director of Music
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Colleen Kingston
Associate Director of Children and Youth Choirs

Matthew Brown

Director of Music
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Matthew was appointed Director of Music at St. Luke’s in February, 2020. At St. Luke’s, he oversees a comprehensive sacred music program and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Music at St. Luke’s series.

He has concertized throughout the USA and abroad, and several performances have been heard in radio broadcasts of American Public Media’s Pipe Dreams and the nationally syndicated program, With Heart and Voice. As a concert artist, he has performed in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Barcelona Cathedral, Spain; Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; Washington National Cathedral; Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York; Princeton University Chapel; Assembly Hall of the Mormon Tabernacle; Trinity Church on Copley Square, Boston; Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta; Grace Cathedral, Charleston; and Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville. He has premiered works by prominent North Carolina composers, Kenneth Frazelle and Dan Locklair, and facilitated commissions from Barlow Bradford, David Hurd, Simon Lole, Ned Rorem, and Richard Webster.

He earned degrees in organ performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Eastman School of Music. He also holds the Sacred Music Diploma from Eastman's Institute of Music Leadership. As a grant recipient from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and The Robert Carwithen Foundation, he pursued two years of post-graduate organ studies with Dame Gillian Weir. Other major teachers include David Higgs, Jack Mitchener, and Wayne Leupold. Earlier in his career, he benefited from master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Bouvard, David Craighead, and Ewald Kooiman.

He is a member of the Anglican Association of Musicians, American Guild of Organists, and the American Choral Director’s Association. He currently serves on the committee for the Atlanta AGO Taylor Organ Competition and chairs the Nominating Committee for the AGO Southeast Region. Each summer, he manages the Royal School of Church Music in America’s Carolina Course at Duke University.

Colleen Kingston

Associate Director of Children and Youth Choirs
Colleen is the Associate Director of Children and Youth Choirs at St. Luke's. She has served St. Luke’s since 1999, first as a Staff Singer and then as Assistant for Children’s Music beginning in January 2003. Colleen is also a music teacher at Hope-Hill Elementary, part of Atlanta Public Schools. Prior to APS, she taught in the DeKalb and Gwinnett school systems starting in 1997. Colleen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Emory University and a Master of Music from the University of West Georgia. She is a member of the National Association for Music Education and the Georgia Music educators Association. In addition to singing in the adult choirs at St. Luke’s, Colleen has enjoyed singing in several professional choirs throughout Atlanta, including The Britten Choir and Atlanta Singers. She also performed many years in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus under the baton of the late Robert Shaw.


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St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Atlanta, GA

435 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

Tel: 404-873-7600

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Service Times

Summer Sunday's at St. Luke's

  • 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist - Rite I
  • 10 a.m. Family Worship Service - Rite II with organ, choir and congregational singing In person and live online

Sunday morning education for all ages begins at 10:15 am.

Bookmark stlukesatlanta.org/live/ for live services, bulletins and updates.

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435 Peachtree Street NE
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