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Children and Youth Choirs

Choristers at St. Luke's play a vital role in worship as members of our choirs for children and youth. Choristers meet weekly during our program year (August-May) to learn repertoire, develop skills in musicianship, and to strengthen their vocal technique, all while having fun together. Chorister training is based on the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Voice for Life curriculum which, in addition to developing their musicianship, helps Choristers learn how their music integrates into our liturgy. Children and youth choirs lead worship several times during the program year. They may also participate in special services, such as Choral Evensong, Christmas Eve, the Festival of Light, and others. Choristers ages 10 and above are encouraged to participate each summer in one of the annual training courses offered by the RSCM throughout the USA.

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Every week, our Children’s Sunday School program includes both class time and singing time with Colleen Kingston, our Associate Director of Children and Youth Music. Participation in this singing time does not obligate children to sing in church as a chorister, though all are welcome to. If your child would like to participate in choir performances, please register:

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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 Michael Brown 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; Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham; Grace Church Cathedral, Charleston; and Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville. He has premiered works by prominent North Carolina composers, Kenneth Frazelle and Dan Locklair, and has facilitated commissions of new music by Barlow Bradford, David Hurd, Simon Lole, Ned Rorem, and Richard Webster. In 2023, under Matthew's leadership, St. Luke's will endeavor to become a national leader in annually commissioning music by underrepresented composers for traditional liturgies of the Episcopal Church.

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 included 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 professionally affiliated with the Association of Anglican Musicians, American Guild of Organists, American Choral Director’s Association, and the Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé Association. He currently serves on the boards of The Leupold Foundation, Atlanta's Taylor National Organ Playing Competition, and chairs the Nominating Committee for the Southeast region of the American Guild of Organists. Each summer, he manages the Royal School of Church Music in America’s Carolina Summer Choral Residency 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

Sunday Services at St. Luke's

  • 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I (in person only)
  • 9 a.m. Family Worship Service with Communion (in person and live online)
  • 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II (in person and live online)

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435 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

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