Summer Series Organ Concert - Raymond Hawkins

Raymond Hawkins is Music Director at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Marblehead, MA.  He was a Kenan
Scholar at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he studied with Dr.
Timothy Olsen and received his undergraduate and high school diplomas. Since beginning organ lessons at age eleven, he
has also studied with Donna Swanson, Angela Kraft Cross, and Porter Remington. Raymond has also studied abroad in the
United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, advancing his skills as both musician and language aficionado. As
a concert organist, Raymond has played in venues across the United States, from the Cathedral of St. Mary of the
Assumption in San Francisco to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, SC. This year, he is giving a round of
concerts celebrating the sesquicentennial of French organist and composer Louis Vierne’s birth.