Bio taken from Atlanta Symphony
Baritone Gordon Hawkins began his career singing the bel canto roles of Italian opera. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the George London Grant recipient, he is also a winner of the Luciano Pavarotti Competition and in 2006 was honored as the Washington National Opera “Artist of the Year.”
Most recent engagements Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the San Francisco Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin; Der Freischütz and Alberich in Das Rheingold at Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; Telramund in Lohengrin at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera at the New Orleans Opera; Crown in Porgy and Bess at Cincinnati Opera; and Amonasro in Aida at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Mr. Hawkins has performed with numerous well known opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, L’Opera de Montreal, Atlanta Opera, Manitoba Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Michigan Opera Theatre, Dallas Opera, and San Francisco Symphony.
In concert, Mr. Hawkins orchestral engagements include Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with The Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center; and the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s A Great Hope Fell with the EOS Orchestra of New York. He also performed a gala concert for the Supreme Court Justices in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Hawkins has been heard on the Live BBC Radio broadcast as Alberich in Götterdämmerung with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, and Live from the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts earlier in his career as Marcello in La Bohème with Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni, and Silvano in Un Ballo in Maschera with Luciano Pavarotti and Aprile Millo.
Gordon Hawkins, Baritone
Lassu in cielo" from Arizona Opera's Rigoletto
Seattle Opera Presents II Trovatore
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Oh little stars (Willard White)
The Ring part 1: Rheingold - 3 minute preview from San Francsico
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