Winner of the 2006 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the Verbier Festival Academy’s 2008 Prix d’Honneur, Joshua Hopkins has been hailed as “…an outstanding young baritone with a virile, vigorous yet velvety sound and an immediately evident dramatic authority.” Joshua Hopkins records in an exclusive relationship with ATMA Classique and his first recital disc was released in 2010 featuring songs of Barber, Bowles, Glick, and Vaughan Williams. Performances of 2011-12 include Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Houston Grand Opera and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Vancouver Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He sings Händel’s Messiah with the Ann Arbor Symphony and the Mercury Baroque Orchestra, Bach’s Magnificat with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3 as well as Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the New York Philharmonic. Highlights of past seasons include La bohème, The Little Prince, and Madama Butterfly at Houston Grand Opera, A Quiet Place for New York City Opera, Die Zauberflöte at Arizona Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, and Santa Fe Opera, and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. His dynamic concert schedule has included performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Les Violons du Roy, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Joshua Hopkins has given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall with J.J. Penna, under the auspices of the Vancouver Recital Society with Graham Johnson and the Santa Fe Concert Association with Jerad Mosbey, and in Toronto, in conjunction with The Aldeburgh Connection, offering a program entitled 'Schubert's Florilegium' highlighting many Lieder about flowers written by the composer. He gave the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas’ Rilke Songs at Zankel Hall in New York and joined Barbara Bonney for songs by three generations of Mozart (Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus, and Franz Xaver) under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He also has collaborated, in a program of Haydn part songs, with pianist Richard Goode.
Last updated: January 2012
Photograph taken by Dario Acosta
“Let Beauty Awake” recital CD on Atma Classique
"The young Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins gives a beautifully assured reading of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, followed by an intriguing batch of composers – Paul Bowles, Samuel Barber and the Canadian Srul Irving Gluck. A really fine debut recital. Jerad Mosbey accompanies."
Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale 29 November 2010
"as this first recital disc of 20th century songs demonstrates, he’s a baritone of real promise and vocal presence. Hopkins delivers them all with such care and attention to their meaning"
Andrew Clements, The Guardian 17 December 2010
"Hopkins unearths winsome songs by Srul Irving Glick and a series of Tennessee Williams miniatures by Paul Bowles – two North American composers who deserve to be better known."
Andrew Clark, Financial Times 10 December 2010
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I wish to express my deepest gratitude to the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for creating an opportunity so invaluable to the future of young performing artists. Receiving the recognition of such an esteemed committee of musicians is reward enough, but to also be granted a Trust Award is a dream come true. Having been born 'across the pond' in Canada, I had not taken on the challenge of introducing myself to the European artistic community. The great honour of having my name associated with the Trust has given me an exciting opportunity to do so. I hope to introduce Canadian music where it might not otherwise be heard and look forward to sharing my art with new audiences.