Music Staff

Ray Chenault
Organist and Choirmaster
(404) 267-4261

Beth Chenault
Associate Organist and Choirmaster
(404) 267-4261

Ray Chenault, Organist & Choirmaster and Beth Chenault, Associate Organist & Choirmaster, have headed the music program at All Saints’ since October 1975. Ray oversees the entire music program and coordination of music and liturgy, conducts the All Saints’ Choir and assists in planning the Concert Series. Beth assists in all of these areas, accompanies the choir, and serves on the concert series committee. Visit The Chenaults’ page for their complete biography and CD sales.

Rob Burlington
Assistant Choirmaster
(404) 538-3529

Rob grew up in New Jersey and moved to New York City when he was ten years old to attend the St. Thomas Choir School. After attending high school at Salisbury School in Salisbury, CT, Rob graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA with honors in music and was awarded Magna Cum Laude and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1993 Rob was appointed the director of music at Virginia Episcopal School, a small co-ed boarding school in Lynchburg, VA where he conducted the choir and taught music theory and history. In 1998 Rob moved to Atlanta and received a Master of Sacred Music degree from Emory University. From 2001-2008 Rob was the director of youth ministries at All Saints’ where he continues to serve as assistant choirmaster.

Rob is married to Laurie who is a trained opera singer and music teacher for toddlers and their parents. Rob and Laurie have three children.

Karol Kinard Kimmell
Director of Youth and Children’s Music
(404) 267-4262

Karol Kimmell has served as the Director of Youth and Children’s Music at All Saints’ since 1998, planning for and directing choral and handbell choirs for children in PreKindergarten through 12th grade. In addition to working at All Saints’, Karol co-directs and serves as a clinician for Music Week at Lutheridge in Arden, N.C., a summer music and worship conference for church musicians throughout the South. She was chosen to serve on the 2007 Choristers Guild Certification Team and is a member of the faculty at the Choristers Guild Institute, Louisville, Kentucky. She serves on the task force and teaches at Young Lutherans Sing, a national summer choral conference held at various locations in the Midwest. Karol has presented workshops for Choristers Guild and the Georgia chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. She has published children’s choir planning materials for Augsburg Fortress in Sundays and Seasons and is a frequent contributor of articles and anthem studies to The Chorister. In May 2009 she directed the 6th grade North Carolina All State Chorus.

Karol attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, and received her Bachelor of Music Education degree in organ from Lenoir-Rhyne. Karol taught pre-school music for 15 years and has training in Orff Schulwerk, Kindermusic and Musicgarten. Karol directed the elementary choruses at Paideia School, Atlanta, from 2002-2010. She has served as choir director and organist in Episcopal and Lutheran churches in North and South Carolina and Georgia and formerly sang in the Riverside Church Choir, NYC. Karol is a member of Choristers Guild, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.

Leann Herrmann
Children’s & Youth Accompanist, Handbells

Leanne is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and holds the degrees of Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Oberlin College. She is the accompanist for the DeKalb Choral Guild, Collegium Vocale, the Summer Singers of Atlanta, and works in the Atlanta area as a freelance pianist and organist. Leanne served as staff pianist at Paideia School from 1985–2010, accompanying all choirs and playing for 50 musicals and also served as organist at Northwest Presbyterian Church 2004-2009. Leanne has accompanied statewide festival and honor choirs and has played under the direction of Larry Lapin, Rodney Eichenberger, Anne Howard Jones, Norman MacKenzie, Kevin Hibbard and Katherine Murray. Leanne lives in Decatur with her husband, John, and daughter, Megan. Her son, Daniel, is a freshman at Eckerd College.

“Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth…”
Psalm 100