John Hopkins
John Hopkins has held major conducting posts with the BBC in Scotland and the BBC Northern Orchestra (now the BBC Philharmonic), the New Zealand National Orchestra and New Zealand Opera, and became Director of Music of the ABC.
Professor Hopkins studied cello as his principal study at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music in London and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He held appointments as assistant conductor with the BBC in Scotland, chief conductor of the BBC Northern Orchestra (now the BBC Philharmonic), conductor of the New Zealand National Orchestra and of the New Zealand Opera Company, and became Director of Music of the ABC. He conducted extensively in Australia and overseas, and led the Australian Youth Orchestra on six of its overseas tours.
He was founding Dean of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts before his appointment as Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. After retiring from the Conservatorium he remained active as a conductor in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and as a Director of the Australian National Academy of Music.
John Hopkins is featured on the following titles
Dreams: Works for Small Orchestra
Australian composer David Joseph gathers choreographically inspired works for small orchestra from 1986 to 1994 in Dreams, tracing memory, dream states and perception through richly textured, psychologically charged writing.
John Hopkins also appears on
Recorded Messages: Violin
Composer Eve Duncan commissioned violinists in Austria, China, Japan and Australia to record her works, gathering solo, duo, quartet and ensemble pieces onto this cross-cultural violin programme.
Fly: An Australian Opera
Barry Conyngham’s opera Fly, to a libretto by Murray Copland, dramatises the life of inventor and explorer Lawrence Hargrave. The Victoria State Opera premiere recording is conducted by John Hopkins.
Victorian Time Machine
The Victorian Time Machine, directed by Richard David Hames, grew out of the Victorian College of the Arts as an instrumental and vocal ensemble for new music. This 1979 programme pairs Guillaume Dufay with works by Hames, Barry Conyngham and James Fulkerson.
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