Spring into the Music with a brand new line of performances in our Spring Noon Hour Concert Series.
Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Colin Cousins
Colin was born and raised in Hamilton, and he is twice a graduate of McMaster University: in 1976, with a Bachelor of Music, and in 1993, with a Master of Divinity.
As the Music Director at St Pius for over 14 years, he has previously served in a Baptist church, three United churches, and began as an organist and choir director at St Lawrence the Martyr parish in Hamilton, for a total of over 46 years (he was four when he began…).
As a theatre organist, he has played concerts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and he was associate organist at the Organ Grinder restaurant in Toronto for five years.
He taught adults and children piano, organ and theory for over thirty years.
Colin has two adult daughters, but, like him, they are not necessarily grown-up, Bronwyn and Tamara. They all share a love of music, old houses, art and architecture, and a sense of adventure.
He has a unique sense of humour, which comes out in cartoons, poems and silly songs.
Colin was brought up in the United Church (the obvious choice with a Baptist father and an Anglican mother), but his family quit going to church when you were little.
When Colin became an organist at St Lawrence in 1974, he began attending church regularly again, but he had always had an interest in faith, religion and the Bible. His Gramma knew her Scriptures very well and shared them with him.
As time progressed, he became friends with many clergy and their discussions led him to want to know more, experience more, and see where that led him.
In 1989, he began training as a pastoral counsellor at the Pastoral Counselling Centre in Hamilton. He stayed there as an intern, a specialist and a provisional teaching supervisor for well over ten years.
Also in 1989, Colin enrolled for a Master of Theological Studies degree at McMaster Divinity College. On the verge of graduation, he felt led to change to the Master of Divinity program, and graduated in 1993.
Although he preached for a call in several different Baptist churches, none of them seemed to fit and he prayed that the Holy Spirit would show him the Way he was meant to go.
In 2001, with a clear path before him, Colin was ordained at Dundas Baptist Church as a Pastoral Counselling Minister, in the presence of family and friends and with the Laying on of Hands by those who had prayed with him and encouraged him.
Since that time, he has been a bi-vocational minister, leading music in the church and helping clients with life issues.
Colin sometimes believes himself to be the luckiest, or maybe, better, the most blessed, person he knows: he has two half-time professions, radically different from one another, but both of which he loves.
Spring into the Music
Concert Series Lineup
JUNE 14
PHOENIX TRIO
WENDY WAGLER flute
CATHY ANDERSON cello
BETH ANN DE SOUSA piano
JUNE 21
KOICHI INOUE piano