Applied Artist
M.M., Northwestern University
Office: 815-753-8013
E-mail: rhoskins@niu.edu
Richard Hoskins teaches Organ and Harpsichord at NIU. He received the B.M. and M.M. degrees in organ performance from Northwestern University, where he was the Barnes Scholar for 1988 and was made a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. He has pursued additional organ study in Paris with Daniel Roth, Organiste Titulaire of St. Sulpice, and in Holland, as well as choral music study in England at Clare College, Cambridge. He is the Director of Music & Organist for St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago, where he conducts the professional choir, a parish choir, a children's choir and produces the Music at St. Chrysostom's Concert Series. He was a First Prize winner of the Society of American Musicians Young Artist Competition in 1974. He was awarded two cultural scholarships from the French government for his study in Paris. He has played concerts throughout the United States, France, England and Canada, most notably at St. Sulpice, Paris, and York Minster, England. He regularly conducts workshops and master classes for chapters of The American Guild of Organists and has served several churches in the Midwest as Consultant to their Organ Search Committees.