Rev. Daniel Wesley
MINISTER OF MUSIC
Daniel Wesley was called as Minister of Music at Lexington Avenue Baptist Church in February 2021. He is also the Director of Choirs at Lexington Christian Academy, where he serves as the Fine Arts Department Chair, conducts the high school choral ensembles, and teaches courses in advanced music theory. Mr. Wesley also serves as the Artistic Director of the acclaimed Lexington Singers Children’s Choir.
Mr. Wesley’s ensembles have consistently received superior ratings at regional, state, and national festivals. Choirs under Mr. Wesley’s direction have performed by invitation at four conferences of the Kentucky Music Educators Association and in three solo engagements at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The LCA Choirs travel extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including recent tours to France, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Wales, England, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, as well as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Nashville. In 2013, the Lexington Christian Academy Chorale was named Grand Champion at the National Choral Music Invitational. Mr. Wesley has also conducted and accompanied school and community honor choirs, adjudicated choral festivals and presented lectures and reading sessions at church and school music conferences across the United States.
Prior to his calling at Lexington Avenue, Daniel served as Minister of Music at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Nicholasville for nine years and as Director of Music and Christian Education at Flemingsburg Baptist Church for seven years. Daniel is a two-time recipient of the Ruth Coppler Outstanding Teacher Award and holds degrees in Music Education from the University of Kentucky and Campbellsville University. A native of Flemingsburg, Kentucky, he and his wife, Kendra, reside in Lexington with their three children.