Matt Lemmler

New Orleans Jazz Piano Professor and Music Director, Matt Lemmler has been serving as music director/pianist/vocals/choir director at churches throughout the country since 2006.

Here’s a very condensed history of Matt Lemmler’s service through music ministry.

          2022-present-Historic St Luke’s Church in Treme/New Orleans 

2012-present-Christ Church Covington-(music director/pianist/vocalist for contemporary services and all jazz/themed masses)

2012-2020-St Michael’s All Angels Episcopal Church, Lihue, Hawaii- (annual jazz mass music director/pianist/vocalist)

2016-National Episcopal Church Women Triennial Meeting-Salt Lake City-(music minister/guest artist)

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2012-Trinity Church -Houston, TX -(Etta James jazz mass director/pianist/vocalist)

2008-2010-Trinity Church -Houston, TX (jazz mass director/pianist/vocalist)

2006-2010 -Sugarland Baptist Church formerly Williams Trace Baptist Church, Sugarland, TX (pianist/vocalist/arranger)

Matt Lemmler and the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band welcome invitations from any church or congregation to allow us to bring our healing and inspirational music to you and to your community.

 Matt Lemmler and the NOLA Jazz Revival band's mission is to share the distinctly diverse New Orleans culture with the world, and to ensure its legacy among future generations via collaborative mentorship and education grounded in world class musicianship. The New Orleans Jazz Revival Band has presented master classes, educational shows, and workshops for Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the National Jazz Historical Park  and Ridgeview Charter Middle School from Atlanta, GA. Under the direction of Lemmler, the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band has collaborated with 265 middle school musicians—choir, band, and string orchestra all were able to perform alongside the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band as one ensemble—UBUNTU Education. This unique name, UBUNTU, comes from the African humanist philosophy that speaks about interconnectedness in creativity and the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation.
It’s the spirit of Ubuntu that has brought together Matt Lemmler's spiritually moving New Orleans Jazz Revival Band to tell this 300 year story of New Orleans music. From African melodies and rhythms, to classical etudes, to gospel chants (Wade in the Water), to New Orleans dirges (St.James Infirmary Blues). Matt Lemmler's New Orleans Jazz Revival Band will add a chapter to the long history of New Orleans music!

"Any time we play, it's a religious experience, regardless of whether it's a second-line or a hymn. Music makes people dance, sing, clap, jump up and down. That is a very religious, spiritual  experience, whether they know it or not, and its been part of our culture in New Orleans for 300 years." - Matt Lemmler