First Row: (from left)
Sarah Nettleton, Julia Scott, Gigi Dunn, Linda Morrison, Barbara Cravens, Ashley Coons
Second Row:
Steve Fox, Martha Wolfe, Nan Tafel, Amanda Walker, Carrie Page, Ryan Meeks
Third Row:
James Runyon, Joe Scheirich, Paul Klein, Mike Dawson, Jeff Kustes, John Erb, Drina Erb
The choir of St. Martin of Tours Church in Louisville, Kentucky has achieved an international reputation for excellence in church music. Under the direction of Dr. Linda Morrison, the choir has flourished musically in the area of Renaissance music and continues to present major choral works at St. Martin and throughout the Midwest. Selected by audition, drawn from the greater Louisville metropolitan area, the choir consists mainly of volunteer singers.
The choir has toured Great Britain and Europe, singing in London (Westminster Abbey and The London Oratory), Salisbury Cathedral, Paris (Notre Dame), and in the cities of Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, and Salzburg. In 1996, they presented concerts in Rome and Assisi, at St. Peters and St. Francis Basilica.
Dr. Linda Morrison: Director
Linda Morrison is beginning her eighteenth year as director of Music and Organist at St. Martin of Tours. She is also on the faculty at Elizabethtown Community College in Elizabethtown, KY. Prior to her appointment there, she was Assistant Professor of Music at Louisiana College. Also included in her years of experience as church musician is the position of Director of Music and Organist at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. She was a co-founder of the Louisville Youth Choir and the Louisville Boys Choir. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of North Texas, a Masters Degree from the School of Music, Southern Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. She is included in Who’s Who of American Women.