Thomas Dawkins is a 2002 magna cum laude graduate in Music with Highest Honors from Brandeis University, where he became the first winner of the Ira Gershwin Prize for excellence in musical performance. He has performed as a solo pianist with the New England Philharmonic, the Salem Philharmonic, the Longy School of Music and the Brandeis University Orchestras and in collaborative recitals at Brandeis, Longy, and MIT. He has sung as a bass-baritone soloist with Longwood Opera, Chorus Pro Musica, Paul Madore Chorale, The Master Singers (Lexington), Nashoba Chorale, Belmont Open Sings, Boston Repertory Orchestra, Assabet Valley Mastersingers, and The Masterworks Chorale, as well as being a member of Boston's Handel & Haydn Society chorus and The Orpheus Singers. In the past, he has been a member of Opera Aperta and is an alum of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops). He works as an accompanist and vocal coach privately and at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. He also plays piano, oboe, English horn, bassoon and contrabassoon with the Concord Orchestra and professionally. He is the organist for Boston Jewish Spirit in residence at Emmanuel Church, and was recently named organist and choir director for the Congregational Church of Harvard.

Thomas Dawkins in the timpani chair (far left) for a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Brandeis University in 2004.

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