Patrick Hawkins

• DMA, Organ Performance, Arizona State University
• M.M., Organ Performance, East Carolina University
• B.M., Organ Performance, Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute

Patrick Hawkins serves as director of chapel music and organist at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS). In addition to his duties at LTSS, Hawkins also serves as organist and choirmaster at Incarnation Lutheran Church in Columbia, South Carolina.

Hawkins has performed as a concert organist throughout the United States, Europe and South Korea. He has been heard in such venues as The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen (Baltimore), Washington National Cathedral (D.C.), St. Thomas Church 5th Avenue (New York City), Trinity Church at Copley Square (Boston), St. Mary's Cathedral (San Francisco) and St. James Episcopal Church (Los Angeles). He has been a featured recitalist at three regional conventions sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. In the summer of 2015, he was an organist in residence at Wells Cathedral (England) and St. David's Cathedral (Wales) with the choirs from St. John's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. In addition, Hawkins has performed several times in France at the Church of Saint-Maurice (Lille), the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Paris) and at the historic 18th century Abbey of Valloires. He has been heard in the summer organ festivals at Cambridge University at St. Catharine's College (United Kingdom) and the Ludwigskircke in Saarbrücken (Germany).

Although he has a varied repertoire from the late Middle Ages through the 21st century, Hawkins has focused extensively upon historical performance techniques from the Baroque and Classical eras. He has recorded organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach for Arkay Records and has performed and recorded the composer's complete Orgelbüchlein.

Hawkins has served on the board of directors for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and performed upon period 18th-century instruments at their conventions at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, and Greenville, South Carolina. His interests in early manufactured keyboard instruments inspired him to record sonatas by Giovanni Matielli upon three late 18th century English square pianos for Golden Square Records and music by Franz Joseph Haydn and Maria Hester Park upon an early American-built square piano for Navona Records. His research into early music-making in the Southern colonies led to him co-authoring with Thomas Strange the first exhibition catalog for the Sigal Music Museum in Greenville. He has been a lecturer at the Historic Keyboard Conference at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), at the International Muzio Clementi Conference in Lucca (Italy), and lecturer/recitalist at the Muzio Clementi Conference at the University of Barcelona (Spain).