Our Team
Meet the amazing people behind WEDDEDMUSIC
Marcille Brown Durham
FOUNDER AND CURATOR
​Marcille Durham, the Nashville-based founder of Wedding Music Curators and the WEDDEDMUSIC App, is a seasoned musician with decades of experience arranging, performing, composing, and curating wedding ceremony music.
With the development of the cutting-edge WEDDEDMUSIC App, Marcille has greatly expanded access to exquisite, high-quality, customizable ceremony music.
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The WEDDEDMUSIC App with its WEDDEDLIVE player mirrors the sound quality of live music, as well as the in-the-moment artistic decisions made by experienced musicians during the ceremony -- whether it's seamlessly extending a song's length to match the long march of a bride, accommodating any size bridal party, or tastefully covering for ceremony mishaps such as a reluctant flower girl or tardy groom.
The music couples choose for their ceremony is the soundtrack of their Big Day -- so skip the playlist and let the WEDDEDMUSIC App provide the memories.
Meredith Bretz
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND CLIENT ENGAGEMENT
Oregon-based Meredith Bretz is a skilled marketer and engager with special strengths in social media, content design, and customer relations management (CRM).
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Meredith is certified in Digital Marketing and Advertising by the University Systems of Maryland and the University of Oregon's GreenFig program. She is also an ongoing participant in the Wedding Summit's Digital Marketing Program.
Meredith is particularly adept in branding and identity management, social media placement and maintenance, and blog & podcast content creation. More importantly, she is generally known as the consummate problem solver and relationship manager.
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Bretz holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sustainability from Oregon State University.
John Merchant
PROJECT CONSULTANT AND SOUND ADVISOR
John Merchant serves as the Project Advisor and Sound Consultant for WEDDEDMUSIC.
John has a degree in Music Engineering from the University of Miami, where he also interned at the now-famous Middle Ear Studios on South Beach, owned by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. John quickly rose to the position of Chief Sound Engineer for the Bee Gees, and the rest is history.
Over the course of his career, John also worked with an amazing collection of musicians, engineers, producers, and songwriters including Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion, and Lenny Kravitz, as well as producers Arif Mardin, David Foster, Russ Titelman, Raphael Saadiq, Phil Ramone, and many others.
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For WEDDEDMUSIC, John not only advises the team on operational best practices but also helps users connect the dots between their chosen program and the best sound systems for their location and venue. John's blog, "Sound Advice by John Merchant" is featured on this website as well as linked from the WEDDEDMUSIC app.
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Our Artists
The talented muscians behind each WEDDEDMUSIC program.
Strings
LUMIERE STRING QUARTET
Led by New York-based violinist Victoria Paterson, Lumiere String Quartet (LSQ) is made up of select members of the renowned Lumiere Ensemble. They have performed at top venues all over New York City including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gotham Hall, The Plaza, The University Club, The New York Botanical Gardens and countless others. All of the quartet members have performed on Broadway while several have been featured on network television programs such as Good Morning America, Late Night with David Letterman, The View and Live With Kelly and Michael. Notably, they have performed with with Diana Krall, Joss Stone and A Great Big World.
LSQ is WEDDEDMUSIC's top choice for its Classical String programs because of the group's flawless, intimate sound and timeless selections.
Guitar
CHRISTOPHER DUNN
Christopher Dunn is a highly acclaimed classical guitarist known for wedding ceremonies and private events in Washington DC and throughout the Northeast. Featured in "The Knot's Real Weddings", Dunn's clients include members of Washington society, notable public officials, diplomats, and Fortune 200 companies.
Dunn's music is the perfect choice for WEDDEDMUSIC's Classical Guitar program because of the mix of time-honored selections with lesser-known, exquisite compositions -- all great matches for the individual elements of a wedding ceremony.
The Washington, DC-based Dunn received his Bachelors of Music, Masters of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory. He previously toured with the Aurora Guitar Quartet across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica and Japan, and has performed at Carnegie Hall. Dunn also studied with classical guitar masters Julian Gray, Ray Chester and Manuel Bar, and is a past recipient of the Peabody Merit Award and Howard County Arts Scholarship.
Organ
SUE MITCHELL-WALLACE
​Sue Mitchell-Wallace's pipe organ music-- accompanied by trumpeter John Head - is the perfect choice for WEDDEDMUSIC's Royal Pipe Organ and Horn program.
Mitchell-Wallace has performed before audiences around the world, including at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and Westminster Abbey in London, and is an award-winning Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and the American Society of Composers and Publishers. Along with trumpeter Head, she has become an icon of grand, celebratory wedding ceremony music.
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Mitchell-Wallace was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Rollins College, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Miami. She formerly served on the faculty of – and as university organist for – Florida Atlantic University, Broward Community College and Birmingham Southern College Conservatory.
She is currently the organist/choir director at Saint Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody-Atlanta, Georgia.