Joshua Hopkins baritone

Award Winner 2006

Prize winner at the prestigious ARD Musikwettbewerb, Joshua Hopkins' operatic engagements of the 2007-08 season include La bohème and Billy Budd with Houston Grand Opera, Die Zauberflöte at Arizona Opera and The Rape of Lucretia at Central City Opera. His busy concert schedule includes Peer Gynt with the Cleveland Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy, and Messiah with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Sir Trevor Pinnock. Highlights of recent seasons include Pagliacci with Opera Carolina, Don Giovanni at L'Opéra de Montréal, Die Zauberflöte and Platée at Santa Fe Opera, Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Pacific and numerous roles at the Houston Grand Opera where he was a member of the HGO Studio. In concert he has joined Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony and has given the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas' Rilke Songs, under the composer's baton, at Zankel Hall in New York. In recital, he has appeared in New York, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto amongst others. He has joined Barbara Bonney for songs by three generations of Mozart (Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus, and Franz Xaver) with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in a performance of Haydn part songs with pianist Richard Goode. Joshua Hopkins was a prize winner in the 2005 Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition held in Madrid, a National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera's 2003 National Council Auditions and, in 2002, José Carreras presented him with the first place prize in the Julián Gayarre International Singing Competition. The artist also is the recipient of the Sylvia Gelber Foundation Award from the Canada Arts Council and is a grant winner of the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation.

Photograph taken by Marty Umans