Staff & Leadership

Nicholas Johns-Cooper has a Bachelor of Music degree in organ and piano performance from Georgia State University where he was a Presidential Scholar, played the piano with the GSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and sang with the University Singers. While at GSU, he studied organ with Sarah Martin and piano with Geoffrey Haydon, and was the recipient of the Tom Schneider Memorial Scholarship, the Atlanta AGO Scholarship, and the Atlanta Music Club Scholarship. Nick began his piano studies at the age of five with Martha Melton. Early on in his childhood he developed a curiosity for the pipe organ and in high school began studying the organ with David Houston as well as spending a summer studying piano, organ, and conducting at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. He has conducted orchestras for the musicals Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, 1940′s Radio Hour, and Les Misérables an was the drum major for his high school’s marching band. He is a first prize winner of dozens of annual competitions such as the GMEA and GMTA All-State Piano and Chorus competitions, DMEA and DMTA piano competitions, the Margaret A. Guthman piano competition. He has previously held positions as Director of Music and/or organist at Good Shepherd Catholic Church, St. Brigid Catholic Church, Rock Spring Presbyterian Church, and Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. He is the keyboard player/backup singer in Atlanta based rock band Brother Hawk touring around the US and Europe.