Dr. Albert LeDoux is Music Director of Christ the King Church and Executive
Director of the Bach Society. After serving one year as Interim Director
of Music, Dr. LeDoux has accepted the permanent position with added responsibilities
for the Bach Society.
The Director of Music is responsible for oversight of the entire music program.
Currently the program includes Music Explorers, Choristers, Youth Choir, Taizé
Ensemble, Chorus, Church Choir, and Brass Choir. Dr. LeDoux will direct the
work of the Bach Society and conduct the Bach Choir and Orchestra following
the retirement of Dr. Robert Lynn. Dr. LeDoux is a native of Lousiana and holds
degrees from Loyola University in New Orleans (B.M.) and the University of South
Carolina (Master of Music in Choral Conducting and Doctor of Musical Arts in
Choral Conducting).
Pastor Kathy Haueisen (HOW-aye-zen) joins Christ the King Church as Associate Pastor for Faith Formation and Director of the Melanchthon Institute. Pastor Haueisen is a native of Ohio. She has a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) in Journalism and Sociology. She attended Trinity Lutheran Seminary and the Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest and received her Master of Divinity degree from Wartburg Theological Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa). She has been a parish pastor, and from 1996 until 2003 she was executive director of Lutherhill Ministries, the camping program for our synod. Pastor Haueisen has been serving as development director of Lutherhill Ministries.
Jonathan Wohlers is Church Organist. Mr. Wohlers is a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. He is a student of Dr. Robert Bates and has studied with William Porter, Yuko Hayashi, and Judy Glass. Mr. Wohlers earned a Master of Music in Musicology and a Master of Music in Organ Performance from New England Conservatory of Music (Boston). He did his bachelor’s work at Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN). He is married to Naomi Shiga who is also an organist.
Debbie Whitmire to lead Music Explorers. Following the resignation
of Andrea Preisinger, Debbie Whitmire will join the music staff to teach our
youngest group of musicians. Ms. Whitmire is a highly respected teacher of Musikgarten,
a very popular method of music education for preschool children, and holds a
certification from the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association (ECMMA).
She has a Bachelor of Music in Piano and a Bachelor in Dalcroze Eurhythmics
from the Cleveland Institute of Music. For the past 20 years, Ms. Whitmire has
taught music and movement to all ages in the United States and Europe, including
North Asbury Fine Arts (Cambridge, England), West University United Methodist
Preschool, Arts a La Carte, River Oaks Montessori, The Fay School, St. Catherine’s
Montessori and First Steps (St. John the Divine-Episcopal). She joins Caryn
Wilson and Kelly DeVany who teach the older children and youth.