Gordon Hawkins, 1st prize winner of the Luciano Pavarotti Competition, has gained a regular place on the stages of major opera houses with his rich, expressive baritone voice and profound role interpretations. As Amonasro, Rigoletto, Tonio, Luna, Macbeth, Thoas, Porgy, Renato, Kaspar, Telramund, Alberich, he has been and still is a guest at the MET, the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera, in Cincinnati, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Tokyo, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin or in Sevilla. Gordon Hawkins is also a welcome guest at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestra of the National Theater Prague, the Baltimore Symphony or the Cincinnati Orchestra.