For our annual Thanksgiving message we welcome Jason Brown, Minister of Music and the Arts at First Presbyterian Church.

Jason is a native of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and has come to Richmond most recently from Camden, SC. His involvement in church music and ministry spans north of 25 years. He has earned degrees in music from the University of Kentucky and West Virginia University. He has been involved with a variety of ensembles, including the American Spiritual Ensemble, Louisville Bach Society, Kentucky Bach Choir, Houston Grand Opera, and Lexington (KY) Singers. In New York City he has been featured with the Roy Prescod Chorale, Fine Art Singers of New York, Symphony Saintpaulia, and Harlem Opera Theater.

Jason has led music ministries along the eastern seaboard and, in 2012, was honored to serve as a faculty member at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Conference on Music and Worship at Montreat.