Patrick Hawkins, a native of Virginia, holds degrees in organ performance from the Peabody Conservatory at The Johns Hopkins University, East Carolina University, and Arizona State University. His former teachers include Peggy Haas Howell, Donald Sutherland, Janette Fishell, Kimberly Marshall, Carole Terry, and Cherry Rhodes. In Europe he has coached under Lorenzo Ghielmi. In 1993 Dr. Hawkins made his European debut at St. Catherine’s College at the Cambridge Summer Recitals in the United Kingdom. Since then, he has regularly returned to Europe to perform in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. In 2013 he was invited to lecture at the 2nd International Conference on Early Keyboard Music at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; he was a featured lecturer at the International Muzio Clementi Conference in Lucca, Italy in 2015 as well as organist in residence during 2015 at Wells Cathedral (England, UK) and St. David’s Cathedral (Wales, UK); he was a featured recitalist and lecturer at the International Muzio Clementi Conference at the University of Barcelona, Spain in 2016, and in 2023 he received a performance diploma for the first summer course of L'Arte dei Suoni - the Accademia d'organo della Valcuvia in Italy. Dr. Hawkins has appeared in the United States as soloist at four regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and in 2014 he performed a square piano recital for the National Conference of the Historic Keyboard Society of North America (HKSNA) held at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. He has recorded for Arkay and Navona Records and has been heard on National Public Radio's Pipedreams. He co-authored the first exhibition catalogue for the Sigal Music Museum in Greenville, South Carolina, which was published by Clemson University Press. Dr. Hawkins is a former Dean of the Greater Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is currently the Director of Music and Organist at Incarnation Lutheran Church as well as Director of Chapel Music at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary at Lenoir-Rhyne University. 

"The temptation with Haydn (and by extension his contemporaries) is to become almost robotic in technical demands; Hawkins is fluid, studied, and steadied, and breathes living qualities into these works."  Jasper magazine, May/June 2015

"Hawkins delights in revealing so many attractive elements of the music with a light fluent touch, fine phrasing and a sense of discovery."  The Classical Review, December 2014