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Richard Hoskins

September 4, 2014
Host Facility
Carthage College
Location
A. F. Siebert Chapel - Carthage College
Time
7:30 p.m.

Organ faculty Richard Hoskins performs a recital on Carthage’s remarkable Fritsch Memorial Organ on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in the A. F. Siebert Chapel at Carthage College, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha WI 53140. The recital is free and open to the public, and features works by Bach, Franck, Messiaen, Buxtehude, and countless others. 

Richard Barrick Hoskins is Director of Music, Organist & Carillonneur of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, Chicago, where he leads an 18-voice professional choir, two children’s choirs, a parish choir, and produces the annual concert series. Since 2007 he has been College Organist of Carthage College in the Music Department, teaching Organ and Church Music.  From 1995-2008 he was Associate Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.

Mr. Hoskins has played recitals in churches and at universities throughout the Midwest, in Paris at St. Sulpice and Le Temple du Saint-Esprit, in Canada, and in England at York Minster.  He began organ studies in Freeport, Illinois with Velma Wachlin in 1971. He received his Bachelor and Masters of Music degree from Northwestern University in 1976 and 1989 (William H. Barnes Scholar & Pi Kappa Lambda), studying with Dr. Richard Enright. In 1979 he was awarded two scholarships by the French government for organ study in France with Daniel Roth, then Organiste-Titulaire of the Basilica du Sacre-Couer, now Organiste-Titulaire of St. Sulpice. He also studied with M. Roth at the Summer Academy for Organists in Haarlem, Holland in 1977.

Please join the Carthage community on October 16 at 7:30 p.m. for a night of musical entertainment with Richard Hoskins.  For more information, visit: http://www.carthage.edu/events/