Raymond Hawkins is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where he was a Kenan Organ Scholar. Raymond currently is the Director of Music at St. Michael's. He has given solo recitals across the country in venues, such as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco and Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University. This program will feature work by Bach, Bruhns, Brahms, Barber, and others.

Dr. Damin Spritzer, a native of Washington and Oregon, is Assistant Professor of Organ at the University of Oklahoma and Artist-in-Residence for Cathedral Arts at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Dallas. She has performed in Israel, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France, and throughout the US, and released five critically-acclaimed CDs for Raven Recordings recorded in France, the US, and England. Her Doctor of Musical Arts degree is from the University of North Texas, her MM in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and her BM in Organ Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Carolyn Craig, of Knoxville, Tennessee, is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music where she has studied with Jon Laukvik and Martin Jean. Carolyn is the Senior Organ Scholar at Trinity on the Green, where she works with Walden Moore. Carolyn was the 2018-2019 Organ Scholar at Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, England…

Carina Brackin earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, studying with Dr. Timothy Olsen. After graduating, she earned her Associate Certificate from the American Guild of Organists and spent a year studying organ at the University of Notre Dame with Dr. Craig Cramer and working at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. In addition to playing numerous solo concerts including recitals at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, and Bruton Parish Church…

Raymond Hawkins is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where he was a Kenan Organ Scholar. Raymond is currently the Director of Music at St. Michael’s. He has given solo recitals across the country in venues such as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco and Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University…

Angela Kraft Cross, San Francisco Bay Area organist, pianist and composer, graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Organ Performance and completed her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the College of Notre Dame with Thomas LaRatta. She has studied composition with Pamela Decker…

A native of Denmark, Heinrich Christensen came to the US in 1998 and received an Artist Diploma in Organ Performance from the Boston Conservatory, in addition to degrees from conservatories in Denmark and France. He was appointed Music Director of historic King's Chapel in the year 2000, after serving as affiliate organist under the direction of Daniel Pinkham…

Peter Edwin Krasinski is broadly recognized as a motivating consultant for the pipe organ community, and as a conductor, organist and music educator, whose imaginative and energetic performances elevate and inform audiences. Along with regular concert appearances, he specializes in the art of live improvised silent film accompaniment, worldwide. On May 16th at St. Michael’s, Peter will improvise live organ music to accompany the film Grandma’s Boy, starring Harold Lloyd (1922)…

A native of Fremont, CA, Ethan Haman is the organist and assistant conductor at Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, CT. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music studying under Prof. Craig Cramer, previously with Prof. Jon Laukvik. In May 2019 he graduated from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music as a Presidential and Discovery Scholar with a Bachelor of Music Degree…

Raymond Hawkins is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where he was a Kenan Organ Scholar. Raymond is currently the Director of Music at St. Michael’s. He has given solo recitals across the country in venues such as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco and Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University. “Wings” will be the theme of his program.

Barbara Bruns is Minister of Music at the Parish of Christ Church in Andover, Massachusetts where she directs a multi-level choir program and oversees a concert series featuring a pipe organ built in 2012 by the C. B. Fisk, Inc. company of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Born in Tokyo, she received her early musical training in Japan, and earned her Master of Music degree in organ performance, with honors, under the tutelage of Yuko Hayashi at the New England Conservatory…

Colin Lynch serves as Associate Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, and Northwestern University where his teachers have included Thomas Murray, Olivier Latry, and Douglas Cleveland…

On the eve of Independence Day 2020, organist Raymond Hawkins will play a very short program of one or two works by Louis Vierne that were dedicated to Americans as well as the premiere of Raymond's own arrangement of America the Beautiful in the style of Vierne.

On June 2nd, 1937, French organist and composer Louis Vierne died on the organ bench while playing a concert at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. This year on June 5th, our organist, Raymond Hawkins, will tempt fate by playing a program that features the works of Louis Vierne and his contemporaries, including the very last piece of music Vierne ever played. This concert is given in part to support the Greater Boston Food Bank and their efforts to assist our neighbors who are struggling to afford food during this uncertain time.

Cancelled due to COVID-19. Peter Edwin Krasinski is broadly recognized as a motivating consultant for the pipe organ community, and as a conductor, organist and music educator, whose imaginative and energetic performances elevate and inform audiences. Along with regular concert appearances, he specializes in the art of live improvised silent film accompaniment, worldwide. On May 17 at St. Michael’s, Peter will improvise live organ music to accompany the film Grandma’s Boy, starring Harold Lloyd (1922). This film was highly influential, helping to pioneer feature-length comedies which combined gags with character development. This film was also an immensely popular, commercially successful film in its time. Peter Krasinski is considered to be the finest “silent movie” organist currently playing!

Cancelled due to COVID-19. Dr. Damin Spritzer, a native of Washington and Oregon, is Assistant Professor of Organ at the University of Oklahoma and Artist-in-Residence for Cathedral Arts at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Dallas. She has performed in Israel, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France, and throughout the United States, and released five critically-acclaimed CDs for Raven Recordings recorded in France, the U.S., and England. Her Doctor of Musical Arts degree is from the University of North Texas, her MM in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester NY, and her BM in Organ Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

SongFest! A wide-ranging selection of beautiful songs and duets from North America, South America, and elsewhere. This program will feature St. Michael’s two multi-talented singers, Sarah and Katie, performing some of their favorite songs, with exquisite piano accompaniment by former Music Director Douglas Major. This is the fourth year this trio has brought their wonderful talent to St. Michael’s Concert Series, and it promises to be an afternoon to remember!

Mary Dolch is a New Hampshire-born organist, singer, and conductor. She has earned degrees from Westminster Choir College and Yale University, where she studied organ with Matthew Lewis and Thomas Murray, respectively. She has won several awards for her playing in both piano and organ, including The Charles Ives Prize in 2015 and the Joan Lippincott Competition for Excellence in Organ in 2014. She currently works at St. Paul’s School in Concord NH, where she serves as Associate Director of Chapel Music. She teaches organ, voice, and musicianship classes, and assists with the choirs.

Raymond Hawkins is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. While pursuing his studies there as a Kenan Organ Scholar, Raymond developed his career both as a church musician and performing artist. In the domain of church music, he served Augsburg Lutheran Church as music intern for one year before becoming the organist at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, both located in Winston-Salem. As a performer, he has given solo recitals across the country in venues such as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco and Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University. Raymond is the newly-appointed Director of Music at St. Michael's.