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Christopher Hopkins (born 13 February 1957) is an American composer who has been a member of the faculty at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2004. He was Director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities from 2013-2016, and is currently Director of Electronic Media Studios and curator for the Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music. He has been a member of the composition faculties at Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, the University of Minnesota School of Music, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music.

Education

Dr. Hopkins studied composition with Karel Husa, Donald Erb, Eugene O'Brien, and Randall Snyder. He received Bachelor of Music degree in cello from the University of Nebraska, studying with Priscilla Parsons, a dual Master of Music in music composition and electronic music composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from Cornell University.

Career

His compositions have been performed at major music festivals in Athens (International Computer Music Conference), the Taktlos Festival in Basel and Zurich, Rugissants Festival in Grenoble, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Honolulu Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, , New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Tanglewood, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, the Extended Piano festival in Vienna, in several national conferences of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and from concert stages in several academies, conservatories, and libraries for the arts across Europe and the United States. Media broadcasts including his work have been heard over the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Östereichischer Rundfunk, Radio Canada, WNYC, and National Public Radio. Recordings of his compositions are available from Innova and Music from SEAMUS. He is a recipient of an Copland House Residency Award, and has been artist in residence with the Albers Foundation, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. He contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition.^[1]

Style and Principal Compositions

Hopkins' musical style integrates electroacoustic music, graphic notation, and dialectics of musical styles that draw from contemporary classical music, French Baroque music, Renaissance music, and the Ars Nova. His principal works include The Animus Winds for flute and electroacoustic sound, Arched Interiors for bowed piano and computer-processed sound, Double Arched Interiors for two bowed pianos, Echoes Fantasy for two pianos and two vibraphones, Inscape and Reliquaries – seven poems of Ted Kooser for reciter, flute and percussion, Mirror Antiphonies for viola, violoncello, and electroacoustic sound, The Mirror of Enigma for for mixed quintet and electroacoustic sound, Prosodies of Flute Resonance (electroacoustic fixed media), Rings of Interiors Rung for prepared toy piano, Sonata of the Seaven Teares for cello and piano, Sonatas in Dark to Light for sextet, Touché for two clarinets and electroacoustic sound, and Voices in the Autumn Wind for soprano and piano.

References

^ H. Wiley Hitchcock and Christopher Hopkins, "Notation," in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

[1] H. Wiley Hitchcock and Christopher Hopkins, "Notation," in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

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