Joshua Hopkins

baritone BBT Award Winner 2006

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.” Mr. Hopkins records in an exclusive relationship with ATMA Classique and his first recital disc on the label Let Beauty Awake is released in autumn 2010 featuring songs of Barber, Bowles, Glick, and Vaughan Williams. Joshua Hopkins’ 2010-11 season includes a New York City Opera debut in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place in a new production by Christopher Alden, a Dallas Opera debut in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and a San Diego Opera debut in Gounod’s Faust. Symphonic highlights include Bach’s St. John Passion with the Arion Baroque Orchestra, followed by a recording with ATMA Classique, as well as the same work with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the Oregon Symphony. Highlights of past seasons include performances of La bohème at Houston Grand Opera, Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Die Zauberflöte and Albert Herring at Santa Fe Opera, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah on a North American tour with Les Violons du Roy and Bernard Labadie, Peer Gynt with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Messiah with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Trevor Pinnock, and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Houston Symphony conducted by Hans Graf. Profoundly committed to the art of song, Joshua Hopkins has given solo recitals in Michigan, New York, Santa Fe, Toronto, and Vancouver and is proud to have given the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas’ Rilke Songs at Carnegie Hall and to have joined Barbara Bonney for performances of songs by three generations of Mozart under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Photograph taken by Marty Umans

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General Management

Bill Palant at IMG Artists
telephone: + 212 994 3527
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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.

Joshua Hopkins