Director of Music
Matthew Michael Brown joined the St. Luke’s staff as Director of Music in 2020. A native of North Carolina, he holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Eastman School of Music. His major organ teachers include Dame Gillian Weir, David Higgs, Jack Mitchener, and Wayne Leupold. Mr. Brown frequently concertizes 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. He has performed as a guest artist for series and festivals in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Barcelona Cathedral, Spain; 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; and the Episcopal Cathedrals of Atlanta, Charleston, and Nashville. He serves as course manager for the annual Royal School of Church Music Carolina Course at Duke University. Beyond his professional responsibilities, he enjoys frequent collaborations for music to connect with non-profit organizations which care for society’s most fragile and vulnerable citizens.
Director of Children and Youth Choirs
Colleen Kingston is the 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 W. 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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