Ken White is a true native of the city of Atlanta, born and raised in old East Point, Georgia. He is well known around the Atlanta area as a veteran of church music and choral direction, as well as a seasoned performer in the symphonic arts. He serves the church and professional stage community in his unique role as “singing director and conductor”, being trained professionally across many years for the opera stage.  

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Ken was raised in a Christian home, with parents committed to working and serving in their local church. Ken accepted the call to Christ Jesus at age nine during a revival meeting with his father and was baptized. Ken’s mother encouraged him at the age of six years old to start using the musical gift she realized that God had carefully placed within him. He timidly got up, holding tightly on his sister’s hand and joined in trio singing with his sister and brother. That was the beginning of Ken’s musical journey! He continued to sing throughout his boyhood and teen years in various churches and convalescent care facilities as a traveling trio with his brother and sister. He led some of his first Sunday evening worship services in his latter teen years in his home congregation. He later went on to serve as music minister at his home congregation for 13 years in East Point on staff with his brother, also in the ministry. ​​

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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, hand bells, 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.

 

 A classically trained tenor, 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.