Dr. Eric Nelson has served as artistic director of the Atlanta Master Chorale since 1999. He brings extensive training in voice and choral conducting from Houghton College, Westminster Choir College and Indiana University along with experience conducting choirs and clinics around the world. Dr. Nelson constantly finds effective ways to help celebrate the gift of singing – as he says – “shoulder to shoulder, voice to voice, one voice lost in another, each agreeing upon something beyond themselves.” Dr. Nelson is currently Director of Choral Studies at Emory University, where he is a recent recipient of the distinguished Arts and Humanities Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Executive Director, Jill Arrington, is a native Atlantan with legal expertise as an attorney and ample experience in working with various nonprofit organizations throughout her professional career. Jill is a graduate of Emory University School of Law with a keen love and appreciation for music, arts and culture, having graduated from Rhodes College, with a degree in piano performance. As a servant leader, Jill approaches each community and organization with an aim to equity and inclusion, looking to the strengths that rest within the inherent diversity of the staff, partners, and program participants. 

Jonathan Easter is a graduate of Emory University, where he studied with Timothy Albrecht and Dr. Eric Nelson and earned a double master’s degree. Known for his musicality and expressivity across multiple instruments, Easter is increasingly sought after as a collaborative organist and pianist. In addition to his work with choral ensembles, he has worked on multiple occasions with solo artists including world-famous mezzo-soprano, Jamie Barton. As an organist and director, he has served several churches, including St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, Florida; Roswell Presbyterian Church and Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

Amy joined the Atlanta Master Chorale staff in 2020, and she has been working with non-profit organizations and associations for 20 years. Before her position with Atlanta Master Chorale, she served as Chief of Staff/Associate Executive Director with the Georgia Dental Association, and prior to that, Amy was working with an association management company, managing multiple client associations/non-profits.  Amy received her Bachelors of Music from Indiana University South Bend with a major in vocal performance. She has been singing with the Atlanta Master Chorale since 2006 when she relocated to Georgia from Indiana with her husband Chris. They currently reside in Smyrna and have two children, Collin and Emerson.