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Throughout the ages people have come together bound by common beliefs and expressed their faith in song. Both chorally and instrumentally, music at St. Luke's is an integral part of worship. Covering a wide range of style periods and genres in addition to the Anglican Choral tradition, music of the highest quality is offered in praise of our Creator.

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For children and youth, we offer a graded choir system from three years of age through high school. St. Luke's currently has 46 choristers enrolled in its choir program. Affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), choristers are taught using the Voice for Life curriculum. The St. Luke's Schola is composed of 12 professional singers and the St. Luke's Choir totals 45 singers. The Choirs of St. Luke's are open to anyone who wishes to participate. For more information, contact Matthew Brown, Director of Music, at [email protected].


FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT ST. LUKE'S
Concerts by nationally and internationally renowned artists are frequently underwritten by the Friends of Music as a gift to our parish and the greater city of Atlanta. Music at St. Luke’s exists because of the generous pledges made by members and friends of the parish to its annual operating budget. We invite you to consider supporting our Friends of Music above and beyond your pledge. Annual membership in Friends of Music is open to all. Contributors are acknowledged in the programs for events sponsored by the Friends of Music and receive invitations to special donor receptions. For more information, please contact Matthew Brown, director of music. Thank you for your generosity.


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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, a native of North Carolina, is Director of Music at St. Luke’s, where he leads a vibrant sacred music program affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music in America and is Founder and Artistic Director of the Music at St. Luke’s series.

As a concert artist, he has performed for series and festivals 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; and the Episcopal Cathedrals of Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, and Nashville. 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 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 for 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, and was a pianist for the New York City voice studio of Rita Shane, dramatic coloratura soprano for many of the world’s leading opera houses.

An advocate for new music, he has premiered major works by Kenneth Frazelle and Dan Locklair. He has also facilitated commissions from Barlow Bradford, David Hurd, Simon Lole, Ned Rorem, and Richard Webster. Beginning in 2023, the music program at St. Luke’s Atlanta will endeavor to become a leader in annually commissioning music by underrepresented composers for traditional liturgies of the Episcopal Church. This initiative launched with new compositions by David Hurd, Texu Kim, and Dorothy Papadakos to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Alston Memorial Organ.

Matthew is a member of the Association of Anglican Musicians, American Guild of Organists, American Choral Director’s Association, and the Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé Association in Paris, France. He currently serves as Vice-President for The Leupold Foundation and on committees for the Taylor National Organ Playing Competition and 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. In recognition for his significant work and contributions to the cause and advancement of church music, he will be made an Honorary Member (HonRSCM) of the Royal School of Church Music this October in Chester Cathedral (UK).


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. Worship Service with Communion (in person only)
  • 9 a.m. Family Worship Service with Communion (in person and live online)
  • 11:15 a.m. Worship Service with Communion (in person and live online)

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