All Saints’ Concert Series

The 2026-2027 season is here!

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We’re thrilled to welcome you back for the 2026–2027 season of Music at All Saints’! Building on a landmark year of sublime choral works, a thriving new community choir, and sold-out jazz performances, our music has truly become a gift “in the city, for the city.”

This year, we are proud to present a full season featuring four major classical events paired with four premier Jazz at All Saints’ concerts. With the addition of our new Choral Evensong series and the All Saints’ Chorale, there are more ways than ever to experience the joy of live music. We also continue our tradition of hope and inspiration with our annual MLK Jr. jazz concert and worship service. We invite you to make this season part of your life. Help us grow by purchasing tickets, inviting friends, and making a donation to support this musical mission for Atlanta. Peace, In gratitude,

– Scott Lamlein, Director of Music, All Saints’ Church



Kenny Banks, Jr., piano

Known for his “deeply embodied gospel and soul roots,” Kenny’s “arrangements are thrilling, modern, and surprising.

Atlanta resident Kenny Banks Jr., has earned a reputation as one of the most dynamic jazz artists in the Southeast. Noted for his distinctive technique of blending jazz and gospel styles, Banks’s repertoire also includes flavors of Afro-Cuban and hip-hop sounds gathered from performing and recording around the world with a variety of artists.

A brilliant solo artist, Banks is also a regular on tour with vocalist Kurt Elling and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. He began playing the piano at age seven, and in his training with his father, Kenny Banks Sr., also a pianist, he learned the fundamentals of music theory, jazz, and composition. Under the guidance of his mother, a church music director, he found the church to be his first musical outlet. In his career Kenny has performed and toured with such jazz luminaries as Theo Croker, Darren English, Jennifer Holiday, Jazzmeia Horn, and Kenny Lattimore.

He performs regularly in New York at jazz clubs and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and his artistry has enhanced numerous film and television productions originating in Atlanta.

Christmas with Coro Vocati

Experience the joy of Christmas with Atlanta’s treasured ensemble of professional singers.

Coro Vocati is a premier Atlanta-based ensemble of professional singers dedicated to high-level choral artistry under Dr. Stanley Roberts. Founded in 2009, the group performs diverse choral works, champions and commissions new compositions, and fosters an inclusive space for talented vocalists to collaborate and make music.

Cameron Cody, piano

Internationally recognized concert pianist Cameron Cody brings Broadway, classical, and gospel music together in a thoughtfully curated evening of music. 

The program features beloved Broadway favorites, expressive classical selections, and timeless gospel standards, presented with elegance, warmth, and artistry. Known for his engaging presence and musical storytelling, Cameron creates performances that resonate across genres, with a special guest appearance by All Saints’ organist Justin Maxey.

Cameron “Cam” Cody is an internationally recognized concert artist, conductor, and organist based in Houston, Texas. A prodigy who began piano studies at age three, he currently serves as Director of Music and Principal Organist at Chapelwood United Methodist Church, home to a nationally recognized music ministry. Cameron maintains a large global online following, sharing performances that celebrate sacred music and the enduring hymn tradition. Uniquely endorsed by both Shigeru Kawai Pianos and the Allen Organ Company, Cameron is the only known artist to hold endorsements from both a major piano and organ manufacturer. An active touring artist, he has appeared in concert halls across the United States and abroad, including multiple performances at Carnegie Hall. His work spans Gospel, Broadway, and classical repertoire, with collaborations ranging from gospel artists to Grammy-winning composers and international orchestras. At the heart of his work is the Chapelwood Choir, an internationally followed ensemble known for its expressive performances under Cameron’s leadership. He is also the creator of Carols and Keyboards, a signature multi-piano concert event, and founder of the Cameron Cody Chorale, expanding Chapelwood’s musical outreach locally and globally.

Helen Sung, piano

Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.

Inspired by dialogues with Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientists and examining the arts as a celebration of our brains during her jazz residency at Columbia University’s prestigious Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Helen Sung’s Live Wire Project is music about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity.

Helen Sung’s Live Wire Project has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Pianist, composer, and a Guggenheim Fellow, Helen Sung has worked with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. She currently serves on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Zuckerman Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience.

Maria Howell, vocal

Like her predecessors.. . .she grasps the emotion within the lyric and delivers to all who witness the ability to connect with the sadness or joy of the song. One only needs to be within earshot to be drawn into the magic that is Maria.

Maria Howell brings her signature warmth, soul, and storytelling to All Saints’ as she and her quintet celebrate the enduring influence of three of the most iconic voices in American music—“The Ladies of Jazz: Ella, Billie, and Sarah.” With style and heart, Maria has an uncanny ability to inhabit the spirit of each legend while making their songs uniquely her own. Beloved standards, soulful ballads, and swinging favorites will stir memories and delight as she honors the music and legacy of these extraordinary women.

As a song stylist and actor, Maria Howell has owned the stage—from jazz clubs, festivals, and theaters across the U.S. as well as numerous film productions. She began her career as the choir soloist in the film The Color Purple and has appeared in The Vampire Diaries, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and, currently, the popular soap opera Beyond the Gates. She regularly appears in a duo act with Noel Freidline and with Atlanta’s Jazz Legacy Project. Maria also stars frequently at the Jazz Corner, the award-winning jazz club on Hilton Head Island, and her distinctive voice can be heard in commercials, video games, and audiobook narrations.


Previously on our stage

Mosaic String Quartet

Come to an extraordinary performance by an ensemble that is redefining the landscape of classical music right here in Atlanta.

The Mosaic String Quartet is a world-class ensemble of four women of color blending technical mastery with social justice. Highlighting BIPOC composers to promote equity and community transformation, they offer performances where artistry meets advocacy, proving classical music is for everyone.

Ken Cowan, organ

It is difficult to find enough adjectives to describe Ken Cowan’s playing. He is simply one of the best anywhere!

Mr. Cowan’s technical mastery, expressivity, musicality, and sheer brilliance thrilled the convention audience.

Ken Cowan, one of North America’s premier concert organists, returns to showcase All Saints’ 5,000-pipe Kenan Memorial Organ. Celebrated for his technical mastery and expressive artistry, the Curtis and Yale-trained virtuoso currently heads the organ program at Rice University and performs internationally across major concert venues and churches.

The Rodney Jordan Quintet

The aesthetic beauty of this quintet is beyond dispute.

Known for his deep groove, melodic clarity, and commanding ensemble presence, Rodney Jordan is a widely respected artist, composer, and band.

For their evening at All Saints’, Grammy Award-nominated jazz bassist Rodney Jordan and his quintet will perform selections from their chart-topping album Memphis Blue and will premiere new works written specifically for this concert celebrating their long-standing friendships in Atlanta.

Known for his deep groove, melodic clarity, and commanding ensemble presence, Rodney Jordan is a widely respected artist, composer, and bandleader. He has performed nationally and internationally at major jazz venues and festivals and has been featured in numerous jazz publications. The Memphis native leads the Rodney Jordan Quintet whose Memphis Blue project blends original compositions with modern interpretations of the jazz tradition with a blues-inspired sensibility. Deeply committed to preparing students for professional careers in music, Jordan serves as Professor of Jazz Bass and the Coordinator of Jazz and Commercial Music at Florida State University.

“Memphis Blue is not a typical blues recording but if you listen closely, every piece has that thread running through it. There’s an optimism in the way we play that embodies the blues spirit.” – Rodney Jordan

GIVING TO MUSIC AT ALL SAINTS’

Jazz at All Saints’ Concert Series

Jazz at All Saints’ is overjoyed with its enthusiastic reception and to be presenting now our third season. As we celebrate our 250th Anniversary of this nation, what could be more emblematic than this music we call jazz.

From the voices of Ella, Billie, and Sarah, through Memphis Blues, Atlanta gospel-infused piano, to new music “about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity,” our Season 3 artists each deliver a deep infusion and expression of our American spirit.

We welcome you with doors, arms, and ears wide open to experience this sanctuary of sound. We are committed to preserving the past, championing new works, and exploring the boundaries of possibility. Thank you for your support in honoring this art form and keeping our hearts, minds, and spirits alive.

Swing and soul,
Virginia Schenck
Artistic Director, Jazz at All Saints’ Concert Series

Concert Schedule

Every concert begins at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $25 general · $15 student — or save with a season pass to all four.

Kenny Banks, Jr., piano

Known for his “deeply embodied gospel and soul roots,” Kenny’s “arrangements are thrilling, modern, and surprising.

Atlanta resident Kenny Banks Jr., has earned a reputation as one of the most dynamic jazz artists in the Southeast. Noted for his distinctive technique of blending jazz and gospel styles, Banks’s repertoire also includes flavors of Afro-Cuban and hip-hop sounds gathered from performing and recording around the world with a variety of artists.

A brilliant solo artist, Banks is also a regular on tour with vocalist Kurt Elling and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. He began playing the piano at age seven, and in his training with his father, Kenny Banks Sr., also a pianist, he learned the fundamentals of music theory, jazz, and composition. Under the guidance of his mother, a church music director, he found the church to be his first musical outlet. In his career Kenny has performed and toured with such jazz luminaries as Theo Croker, Darren English, Jennifer Holiday, Jazzmeia Horn, and Kenny Lattimore.

He performs regularly in New York at jazz clubs and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and his artistry has enhanced numerous film and television productions originating in Atlanta.

Helen Sung, piano

Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.

Inspired by dialogues with Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientists and examining the arts as a celebration of our brains during her jazz residency at Columbia University’s prestigious Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Helen Sung’s Live Wire Project is music about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity.

Helen Sung’s Live Wire Project has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Pianist, composer, and a Guggenheim Fellow, Helen Sung has worked with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. She currently serves on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Zuckerman Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience.

Maria Howell, vocal

One only needs to be within earshot to be drawn into the magic that is Maria.

Maria Howell brings her signature warmth, soul, and storytelling to All Saints’ as she and her quintet celebrate the enduring influence of three of the most iconic voices in American music—“The Ladies of Jazz: Ella, Billie, and Sarah.” With style and heart, Maria has an uncanny ability to inhabit the spirit of each legend while making their songs uniquely her own. Beloved standards, soulful ballads, and swinging favorites will stir memories and delight as she honors the music and legacy of these extraordinary women.

As a song stylist and actor, Maria Howell has owned the stage—from jazz clubs, festivals, and theaters across the U.S. as well as numerous film productions. She began her career as the choir soloist in the film The Color Purple and has appeared in The Vampire Diaries, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and, currently, the popular soap opera Beyond the Gates. She regularly appears in a duo act with Noel Freidline and with Atlanta’s Jazz Legacy Project. Maria also stars frequently at the Jazz Corner, the award-winning jazz club on Hilton Head Island, and her distinctive voice can be heard in commercials, video games, and audiobook narrations.

Giving Levels

Named, of course, for the standards we love.

A Love Supreme

How High the Moon

When the Saints Go Marching In

Anything Goes

I Got Rhythm 

I Get a Kick Out of You

’S Wonderful

Previously on our stage

The Rodney Jordan Quintet

The aesthetic beauty of this quintet is beyond dispute.

Known for his deep groove, melodic clarity, and commanding ensemble presence, Rodney Jordan is a widely respected artist, composer, and band.

For their evening at All Saints’, Grammy Award-nominated jazz bassist Rodney Jordan and his quintet will perform selections from their chart-topping album Memphis Blue and will premiere new works written specifically for this concert celebrating their long-standing friendships in Atlanta.

Known for his deep groove, melodic clarity, and commanding ensemble presence, Rodney Jordan is a widely respected artist, composer, and bandleader. He has performed nationally and internationally at major jazz venues and festivals and has been featured in numerous jazz publications. The Memphis native leads the Rodney Jordan Quintet whose Memphis Blue project blends original compositions with modern interpretations of the jazz tradition with a blues-inspired sensibility. Deeply committed to preparing students for professional careers in music, Jordan serves as Professor of Jazz Bass and the Coordinator of Jazz and Commercial Music at Florida State University.

“Memphis Blue is not a typical blues recording but if you listen closely, every piece has that thread running through it. There’s an optimism in the way we play that embodies the blues spirit.” – Rodney Jordan

2025–2026 Season

Our 2025-2026 Season found us chosen for Atlanta Magazine’s Best of Atlanta! Atlanta has showed up for some love in the heart of Midtown and we could not be more pleased to host this sanctuary of sound and community by today’s top jazz artists.

We started the season with Grammy Award-winning drummer Robert Boone Jr. and his quartet. Robert is a featured performer with The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, serves on the jazz faculty of Georgia State University, and is currently a member of the local band, The Boom! Trio. Audiences were moved to their feet and with shouts of praise, as Robert paid tribute to iconic jazz drummer and social activist Max Roach whose We Insist! Freedom Now Suite was
one of the driving forces in the Civil Rights Movement.

Atlanta warmly welcomed nine-time Grammy nominee and multi-faceted artist, Nnenna Freelon, as she shared heart-spoken songs of love and loss from her latest album and debut book, Beneath the Skin. This most esteemed jazz vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, and arts education advocate reached deep into our hearts and drew our first sold-out crowd.

Jazz at All Saints’ lit up Atlanta’s jazz scene when young South African trumpet sensation Darren English premiered his new album, “He Said/She Said,” for an American audience. Our hearts warmed with the spirited conversation that takes place between male and female voices coalescing in ultimate harmonies. We can see why he is the two-time winner of the Global Peace Song Award.

Jazz harpist Brandee Younger transformed our lives as she has revolutionized the harp’s role in modern music, connecting spiritual jazz and classical training with the soulfulness of R&B. Jazz at All Saints’ will never be the same having been graced with her presence, fresh ideas, and penetrating tones and another sold-out show. We have been transported to a new world. Thank you for joining us in the heart of Midtown Atlanta for our 2025-2026 series.

2024–2025 Season

Our artists for the 2024-2025 season attracted large and responsive audiences, garnered extensive praise from attendees, other performers, and Atlanta jazz media.

Our series began with piano virtuoso and composer Gary Motley and his quartet. And what a beginning! With his soul-stirring style and an array of new compositions and beloved standards, Gary set the bar for the season, demonstrating again why his artistry is appreciated by fellow jazz musicians as well as audiences across the country. Apart from his artistic work, Gary is a professor of practice and the founding director of Jazz Studies at Emory University.

The brilliant young pianist and Atlanta native Joe Alterman and his trio had the crowd begging for more in his November concert. With his infectious, joyful style, Joe demonstrated why he is a regular at New York’s Birdland and the recipient of praise from jazz legends like Les McCann, Ahmad Jamal, and Ramsey Lewis.

Grammy Award winner Carmen Bradford, a featured soloist with The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, enthralled a near-capacity crowd with her distinctive voice and captivating stories about her life as part of jazz royalty. Accompanied by her longtime friend, pianist Reginald Thomas, she proved to the audience’s delight that if it ain’t got that swing, it ain’t got Carmen!

Along with his trio, the versatile performer and Atlanta Braves organist Matt Kaminski knocked it out of the park in the concluding concert. As he demonstrated jazz organ and ballpark organ techniques, he had the audience on its feet throughout his set, just as he does at Truist Park. The jazz energy generated by this smiling virtuoso continues as our concert series begins a new season.

Virginia Schenck

A vocalist and bandleader, Virginia curates each season with a commitment to preserving the past, championing new works, and welcoming the whole city into the music.

Advisory Committee

Maggie Edson · Barrie Gibby · Mary Wyche Lesesne · John Mitchell · Alvin Moore · John Smith · Carl Walker · Dennis Zakas

Jazz Advisors

Joe Alterman · Dwight Andrews · Robert Boone · Carmen Bradford · Gary Motley

Sundays at 5 p.m. in the Chapel with jazz trio
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