With an early start at age 21 in a music career, Ken has over 38 years invested in the church music ministry and professional music stage. He has led choirs, orchestras, handbells, soloists and children voices in over 500 indoor and outdoor music settings to various size audiences in churches and performing centers and amphitheaters around Georgia and the Eastern United States. He has participated in the formation of two distinct men’s gospel and barbershop touring and recording quartets over many years, and shares an extensive repertoire of traditional, nostalgic, classical, broadway, operatic, sacred oratorio, and gospel music.   He holds various music studies and degrees from the University of Alabama, University of Georgia, and Point University/Seminary, where he specialized in vocal performance, orchestral and choral direction, music and church ministry. He also received private and studio vocal training at the Betty Colson operatic voice studio for 10 years in Atlanta, Ga.  As vocal soloist, choral director and orchestral conductor, Ken has appeared with the Enrico Caruso Vocal Competition of Italy, the New York City Opera Society, the McAllister Vocal Awards in Indianapolis, the Christian Artists Seminar in the Rockies, the Indianapolis Opera Society, the Birmingham Symphony, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, the Atlanta Choral Guild, the Mercer University Choral Guild, the Pensacola Choral Society, numerous churches across the southeast US, and with his own touring orchestra the Peachtree Pops Symphony Orchestra. He has presented music across the years in various distinct venues around Atlanta, Georgia to include Spivey Hall, Stone Mountain Park, Six Flags Over Georgia Park, Dean Gardens, Trilith Studios/Communities, the Fred Brown Amphitheater, the Southern Grounds Amphitheater, the Delta Flight Museum, Christian City Retirement Village, as well as various statewide churches and campgrounds.    Ken’s wife Jodi hails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and has been a professional agency nurse for almost 20 years. She and Ken share a passion of hospitality, and often work side by side in the production of their signature “Coffee & Classics” and “Dinner & Symphony” programs!  Ken has three grown children, two sons and a daughter, Kenneth, Kelly, and William.  Ken has “never met a stranger”, and has a mission for meeting people and learning ways to connect and invest in their lives. He loves to seek out the gifts that each person possesses (especially in music) and help them use them for the glory of God!  He enjoys anything that has to do with music (of course!), sharing “formal nights out” with his wife Jodi, healthy gym exercise, the great outdoors, classic cars, nostalgic music and memorabilia, and spending time with family and friends!