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Barbara Hopkins, Flutist |
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Barbara Hopkins enjoys a
varied career as teacher and performer. She has been Assistant Principal
Flutist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 1993, where she has appeared
as sol Dr. Hopkins is the flute teacher at the University of Connecticut, and taught community division students at The Hartt School for ten years. It was while teaching at the Hartt School that she conceived the idea for her first CD, Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano, when she realized that her students needed to hear the repertoire that she was teaching, and that much of it had never been recorded. A new interest for Barbara is early American instruments and music. She has recently acquired two flutes by Asa Hopkins, and had them restored to playing condition. Asa Hopkins was one of the most respected early American flute makers, and lived in Litchfield, Connecticut. She will be playing them in recital on Sunday, September 16. See the "performances" page for details! Dr. Hopkins received much of her education in New York. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook under Samuel Baron and her Master of Music from the Mannes College of Music under Thomas Nyfenger. She earned her Bachelor of Music at the Hartt School with John Wion.
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oist on both
flute and piccolo. She has performed at National Flute Association
Conventions in Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas, once as the first prize winner of
the Orchestral Audition Competition, and twice as the winner of the Convention
Performers Competition. Most recently she performed at the convention in Albuquerque
this August, when she played on John Wion's Lifetime Achievement Award concert.
Hopkins has also appeared as soloist in New York City,
Alaska, Florida, Chautauqua New York, and throughout her home state of
Pennsylvania. She has premiered several works by Edward Diemente, and
enjoys performing new music. She has been Principal Flutist with the
Florida West Coast Symphony, and freelanced in New York for six years. Her
publications include articles in Flute Talk magazine, the Greater Boston
Flute Association's Gazette, the Seattle Flute Society Newsletter,
and The Flute Rag.