Steven Richardson Severin

Steven Richardson Severin, raised on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi, has been a church organist since 2016, when he started working for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu. Notable pieces Steven performed at St. Mark’s include the Duruflé Requiem, Messiaen’s l’Ascension, and numerous works from the Anglican choral tradition. He is also a pianist, having earned a Master of Music in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Before that, he earned a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2011.

As a collaborative pianist and organist, he has worked with ensembles such as the Gay Men’s Chorus of Honolulu, the chamber choir Nā Wai, and the Hawaiʻi Youth Opera Chorus, where he also taught group piano classes. As an educator, he worked with the middle school choirs and instrumental ensembles at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama campus. He also teaches private piano lessons for youth and adults.

Steven enjoys singing in choirs as well, and is a member of the Sewanee School of Theology Choir. While in Honolulu, he sang in the chorus for the world premiere of Kinohi by Herb Mahelona, the first Hawaiian-language oratorio. As a member of the Oʻahu Choral Society, he performed works by Brahms, Orff, Howells, and others.

His wife, Erin, is a seminarian at the School of Theology, and they live on the mountain with their cat, Mahina. Steven’s non-musical hobbies include cooking, bicycling, and computer/ tabletop games.