Staff
Artistic Director and Conductor, David R. White has been training boys and young men to sing for more than two decades. In 1994, he founded the Boy Choir of the Carolinas in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1998 he became the Music Director of Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. From 2001 to 2009, Mr. White was the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Atlanta Boy Choir in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also served as conductor of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Director of Music at the Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville. There, he founded an annual Summer Music Camp for children and adults. Under his direction, choirs have participated in numerous festivals throughout the world including the Prague International Choral Festival, the Pacific International Children’s Choir Festival, the Anchorage Choral Festival, the Cultural Olympiad in Greece, the Baltimore Boychoir Festival, the Southeast Festival of Song, and the Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria. His choirs have toured extensively throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. He has been a conductor on the faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan as well as the Csehy Summer School of Music in Philadelphia.
In addition to conducting, Mr. White has been a featured soloist with numerous choral organizations and orchestras throughout the Southeast. He was a member of Robert Shaw’s Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus from 1987 – 1990. Mr. White holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Georgia College and is active as a lecturer, adjudicator, and conductor for choral and vocal competitions, workshops, and festivals. He currently holds the position of Repertoire and Standards Chair for the Georgia Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
Executive Director, Adisa Nickerson has been a part of the arts community in Atlanta ever since he became a member of the Atlanta Boy Choir at the age of 8. He continued to flourish as a musician throughout school and studied music at Clark Atlanta University and Florida International University. Upon graduation from college he worked for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in retail sales and worked for the Southern Arts Federation assuming both programming and administrative responsibilities. For nearly two years he managed the office of the Metro Atlanta Arts & Culture Coalition and ran it’s Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta Program. In January of 2008 he returned home to assume the position of Managing Director for the Atlanta Boy Choir. He frequently serves on local, regional, and national grants panels in the arts and has served on the advisory boards of three arts organizations in the metro Atlanta area.
Accompanist, Rosemary White has been performing as an accompanist and solo pianist for more than 20 years. She has appeared in concerts throughout the United States and Europe. Mrs. White has earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and has taught music and piano at various educational institutions in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. She was the pianist for Florida’s Singing Son’s Boychoir in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; prior to that she was accompanist for the Boy Choir of the Carolinas in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a frequent clinician and adjudicator for various contests and festivals. She has been on the faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan and the Csehy Summer School of Music in Philadelphia.
Rosemary and her husband, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Georgia Boy Choir, David R. White, have been married for 21 years and have three children.
Associate Conductor and Organist, Scott Hamilton Atchison currently serves as director of music and organist at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he administers a program including nine choirs. Under his leadership, the choirs have performed in some of the most venerable cathedrals and halls around the world.
In the United States, the Choir of Peachtree Road has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
The Peachtree Road Choir has toured internationally for many years. Notably, the choir has appeared at St. Paul’s and Wells Cathedral in the United Kingdom and Notre Dame, Chartres, and Reims Cathedral in France.
In 2002, Mr. Atchison began the design and installation of the 106-stop Mander Organ in the church’s new sanctuary. In November of that year, he was the featured soloist in the premiere of the Concerto for Organ, Orchestra and Chorus by renowned composer Stephen Paulus with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mr. Robert Spano.
The music program at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church includes a full-scale concert series which draws music lovers from across the city. The series includes at least two major choral works each season with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Atchison’s schedule keeps him busy as an organ recitalist and choral clinician across the country.
Mr. Atchison received his training in organ performance and choral conducting from Furman University as well as Georgia State University where his teachers included Lindsay Smith and Robert L. Simpson. Professional memberships include the American Guild of Organists, American Choral Directors Association, and the Royal School of Church Music.
