Music

Matthew Brown

He has concertized throughout the USA and abroad, and several performances have been heard in broadcasts of American Public Media’s Pipe Dreams and the nationally syndicated program, With Heart and Voice. He has performed 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 is a member of the Anglican Association of Musicians, American Guild of Organists, and the American Choral Director’s Association. Each summer, he manages the Royal School of Church Music’s Carolina Course at Duke University.

Herbert Buffington

A native of Atlanta, Herbert Buffington received early musical training as a chorister in the Men and Boys choir at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, where he also held the position of Cathedral Sub-Organist for several years before entering undergraduate school. He holds degrees from Duke University and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He also studied abroad at the Vienna International Music Center and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. He maintains an active solo recital schedule and has appeared in concert at Washington National Cathedral, The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, the Cathedral of St. Philip, Bates Recital Hall at The University of Texas at Austin, National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C., the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Duke University Chapel. A widely respected musician, he has won national awards for organ improvisation and frequently serves on the faculties of church music conferences and improvisation seminars across the country.

Colleen Kingston