August 5: Randall Mullin

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Randall Mullin is a freelance musician who lives in Old Orchard Beach. He gained both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. During that time he was Associate Director of Music and Organist at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in that city. Later he held the position of Organist and Choirmaster at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore for 28 years. After moving to Maine he accompanied the choir at the Cathedral of St. Luke in Portland from 2010 until 2023.
 
He was a featured performer with ChoralArt for Grand Opera meets the Mighty Kotzschmar in 2016, Maurice Duruflé Requiem in 2019, and for the Louis Vierne Messe Solennelle at the Basilica in 2025. He has played throughout the country with more recent recitals at Trinity Church, Copley Square, in Boston, Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. 
 
Randall Mullin has recorded 130 YouTube videos featuring romantic, modern and contemporary organ music which have received more than 614,000 views. https://youtube.com/user/RandallMullin.
Program
Allegro Moderato (Concerto in F, Opus 4, No. 4) – George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), arr. W. T. Best/Virgil Fox 
Méditation – Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Rhapsodie sur le nom de LAVOIE – Denis Bédard (1950-)
Suite No. 2 (Homage to W. T. Burleigh) – Daniel Ficarri (1996-)
I. Deep River
II. There Is a Balm in Gilead
III. Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit

August 12: Raymond Hawkins

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Since beginning his musical training at age ten, Raymond Hawkins has honed his skill at the organ through an active career in both solo performance and sacred music. As a performer, Raymond has given recitals at venues across the United States, including the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco and Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University. His performance at the 2015 Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina was praised in The American Organist as being “superbly played and registered.”

Raymond currently serves as Director of Music & Organist at Christ Church of Hamilton & Wenham in northeastern Massachusetts, where he oversees choral and organ music for celebrations of the Holy Eucharist as well as a variety of other sacred occasions. Prior to his appointment at Christ Church, Raymond served 5 years as Director of Music & Organist at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the oldest Episcopal Church in New England still standing on its original site (1714).

Raymond has also won prizes in a number of regional and national competitions. As a high school junior, he received First Prize and the Hymn-Playing Prize in the 2014 UNCSA/Salem College High School Organ Competition as well as Third Place and the Hymn-Playing Prize in the American Guild of Organists Greater Columbia Chapter Young Organist Competition; the following year he earned Second Place in the same competition. In 2014, he won Second Place in the Senior Division of the Peter Perret Youth Talent Search and consequently performed with the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra.

In 2019, Raymond completed his undergraduate degree in organ performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied as a Kenan Organ Scholar under Dr. Timothy Olsen and had previously received his high school diploma. Earlier on, he studied organ 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.

August 19: Mark Laubach

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Since January 1986 Mark Laubach has served as Organist and Choirmaster of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre, the Pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Bethlehem, where he administers an active liturgical and choral music program, concert series, and Music from St. Stephen’s, a radio broadcast heard weekly on WVIA 89.9 FM Public Radio. In 2008 Bishop Paul Marshall made Mark Honorary Canon Precentor of the Diocese in recognition of his accomplishments and contributions to the musical and liturgical life of the Diocese of Bethlehem.

Mark Laubach received a Bachelor’s Degree in Church Music from Westminster Choir College in 1982 and a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in 1984. He served for one year as Fellow in Church Music at Washington National Cathedral. His organ teachers have included Clinton Miller, George Markey, Donald McDonald, and David Craighead. Since winning first prize in the 1984 American Guild of Organists (AGO) National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance, Mark has performed in many of the most prominent churches and concert halls in the USA and in Great Britain and Germany. Notable UK recitals have included appearances at Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, and cathedrals in Bristol, Chichester, Gloucester, Lincoln, Norwich, Wells, and Winchester. He is a frequent recitalist, clinician, presenter of hymn festivals, and competition adjudicator for National and Regional Conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and National and Regional Conferences of the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM). He has recorded three critically acclaimed compact discs on the Pro Organo label: Teutonic Titanics, French Fest, and Mosaics in Sound. Canon Laubach teaches organ students privately and at Marywood University in Scranton. He is represented by the Concert Artists Cooperative, based in Sebastopol, California.

Recent performances by Canon Laubach have included recitals at First Lutheran Church of Brockton, Massachusetts, St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, The First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown, New Jersey, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and a featured recital for the 2017 Region III AGO Convention in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1993 and 1994, Mark started his involvement with the Royal School of Church Music in America when he served as an organist for the Valley Forge Course, which moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1995 and became the King’s College Course. He served as Course Manager in the late 1990s in Wilkes-Barre, and has served as an organist for the Course in the years since. He also served as organist for the Atlanta Girls’ Course at St. Philip’s Cathedral in 1998.

In August 2018 Mark served as a co-organist for a weeklong residency at Lincoln Cathedral in England by the Choir of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Harleysville, PA. In the following week he served as organist for another residency at Ely Cathedral by the combined Choirs of Immanuel Episcopal Church on the Green in New Castle, DE, and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lewes, DE.

in Harleysville, PA. In the following week he served as organist for another residency at Ely Cathedral by the combined Choirs of Immanuel Episcopal Church on the Green in New Castle, DE, and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lewes, DE.

Program

Choral I in E Major – Cesar Franck

Priere in C# Minor– Cesar Franck

Final in B-flat Major– Cesar Franck

Other Concerts

Wednesday, June 24 at 2:00 PM

Danielle Faucher, Soprano and Scott Vaillancourt, Organ

Sunday, September 20 at 3:00 PM

Hector Olivera
Sponsored by the Thallander Foundation

Fall TBD

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