Jean-Luc Villamor
Artistic & Executive Director
My Story
Jean-Luc Villamor is an accomplished musician who is dedicated to encouraging others through music and the arts. Early in his life he realized that music was more than just a hobby for him, it was a calling. For high school he attended an arts conservatory and focused on piano, choir, and band, graduating with an arts diploma in 2017. He furthered his musicianship at Arizona State University by utilizing his skills for guitar, percussion, arranging, composing, and music education all while studying Music Therapy and Jazz Piano. He’s worked with the ASU Gospel Choir as a vocalist, pianist, & director, Grammy award-winning artist Myron Butler, the York University Gospel Choir, and has led workshops at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Scottsdale, AZ.
In 2023, after being invited to return and lead a session for an ASU Gospel Choir workshop, he remembered his experience in the ensemble and was inspired to start a community in the north valley with a mission: to share in the musical experiences across various Christocentric traditions regardless of your background and beliefs, and in 2025 he founded Kingdom Voices.
Jean-Luc is the general music teacher and director of the Sacred Voices choir program at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral School, he serves as the music director at his church, a worship leader for numerous groups around the valley, a private piano & voice instructor, a collaborative pianist & instrumentalist for the Peoria District Schools, an accompanist for Arizona GirlChoir's Angeli choir, and an accompanist for Phoenix Children's Chorus' Tutti Adaptive choir.
While deeply in love with music, Jean-Luc also enjoys photography and spends his time cooking, hiking, traveling, and studying linguistics.
WELCOME!
Welcome to Kingdom Voices!
I've been in choirs my whole life, from grade school up through college and now to teaching.
I started Kingdom Voices because I love sacred music and found that it sits in this interesting sphere of performance: religious or academic. Those two environments don't generally line up: when performed in a religious setting theres an assumption that denominations don't touch each others music and when performed in an academic setting it can be difficult to fully emulate the context of the music because an institution might not allow you to. You should be able to engage with all traditions of sacred music without needing to be in a solely religious environment to do so and to also be able to appreciate all that it is so far as your interest will let you. Most of all you should have a community that welcomes you to be curious without judgement and encourages you to interact with the music and traditions.
Choir is more than just the music, the people you sing with have an immense impact on the memories you make. I hope that we can create beautiful music together but more than that I hope that we can know each other on a level that we don't usually get to connect with people. We've lost many 'third spaces' and it's a tragedy that people struggle to find environments to connect with others. Collaborative music provides us with opportunities to work with others, listen to others, express our emotions, and form bonds that can last lifetimes. Kingdom Voices is a community that works together to strive for musical excellence by encouraging individuals through sacred music.
I can't wait to meet everyone, to work with you all, to learn about you, to share this experience, to build this community, and to make beautiful music.
Sincerely,
Jean-Luc Villamor