Stephen Hopkins  

pianist/conductor       

 

e-mail: stephenmhopkins@hotmail.com
website: http://www.stephenmhopkins.com/
headshot: http://www.stephenmhopkins.com/DSCF4192.JPG
bio (in English): http://www.stephenmhopkins.com/Biography.html
bio (auf Deutsch): http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/ensemble-gaeste/oper/detail/artist/745-hopkins-stephen/
bio (in italiano): http://www.associazionebottesini.com/stephen-hopkins-2/

 

            Professional Experience


Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

Conductor (Dirigent)


Wiener Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Pianist/Cembalist


Ópera de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Assistant Conductor to Christoph Gedschold

Assistant Conductor to Guillermo García Calvo


Wiener Akademische Philharmonie, Vienna, Austria
Assistant Conductor to Guillermo García Calvo


Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Assistant Conductor to Sascha Goetzel


ORF Radio Symphonie Orchester, Vienna, Austria
Musical Assistant to Principal Conductor, Cornelius Meister

 
Accademia Europea dell’Opera, Lucca, Italy
Pianist/Coach, Master Class Teacher (July 2018)

Musiktheater Bavaria, Oberaudorf, Germany

Pianist/Coach, Master Class Teacher (July 2015 - July 2022)

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

Pianist/Coach (Solokorrepetitor), Stage Music Conductor (Bühnenmusikdirigent)

                                                                    

Houston Grand Opera Studio, Houston, TX

Pianist/Coach, Assistant Conductor

 

Des Moines Metro Opera, Indianola, IA

Pianist/Coach

 

CoOPERAtive Program, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ

Pianist/Coach (July 2007 & July 2008)

 

          Education                                                                                                                                     

Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ

Master of Music in Piano Accompanying and Coaching with Distinction, May 2008
Cumulative GPA: 4.00                                            

      Primary Instructors: Dalton Baldwin, Daniel Beckwith, J.J. Penna

 

Yale University, New Haven, CT

Bachelor of Arts in Music with Distinction in the Major, May 2006                                                                      

Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Cumulative GPA: 3.84                                                                                

      Primary Instructors: Richard Lalli, Elisabeth Parisot

 

            Languages

 

          Coaches

 

            Conductors

  • Yves Abel
  • Alain Altinoglu
  • Marco Armiliato
  • Philippe Auguin
  • Daniel Beckwith
  • Bertrand de Billy
  • Giampaolo Maria Bisanti
  • Ivor Bolton
  • Oleg Caetani
  • Bruno Campanella
  • Paolo Carignani
  • Frédéric Chaslin
  • William Christie
  • Myung-Whun Chung
  • Jonathan Darlington
  • Christoph Eschenbach
  • Dan Ettinger
  • Adam Fischer
  • James Gaffigan
  • Guillermo García Calvo
  • Sascha Goetzel
  • Michael Güttler
  • Michael Halász
  • Domingo Hindoyan
  • Graeme Jenkins
  • William Lacey
  • Patrick Lange
  • Louis Langrée
  • Robert L. Larsen
  • Jesús López-Cobos
  • Antonello Manacorda
  • Cornelius Meister
  • Ingo Metzmacher
  • Marc Minkowski
  • Edoardo Müller
  • Tomáš Netopil
  • Evelino Pidò
  • Vinzenz Praxmarer
  • Gerrit Prießnitz
  • Kevin Rhodes
  • Speranza Scappucci
  • Patrick Summers
  • Ramón Tebar
  • Constantin Trinks
  • Sebastian Weigle
  • Franz Welser-Möst

 

           Master Classes

 

          Additional Study: Composition

 

          Awards/Honors

Beatrice B. Pearman Accompanist Scholarship, awarded by the piano department to a talented and committed

student studying piano accompanying at Westminster Choir College

Jeanette Rankel Greco Memorial Piano Scholarship, awarded to the piano student with the highest GPA

Alfred E.B. Merron Scholarship, awarded to piano majors who show exceptional talent

Bach Society Prize, for the graduating senior who “has demonstrated a high level of musicianship and dedication

to his/her instrument, and who has contributed significantly to the musical activities on campus.”

Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award, honors juniors whose “verve, idealism and constructive interest in

music and the humanities exemplify those qualities for which Joseph Lentilhon Selden is remembered.”

Shen Prize for Excellence in Composition, sponsored by the Yale Undergraduate Musical Theatre Company

Prescott S. Bush Memorial Scholarship, based on past and present academic achievements, extracurricular

activities, and promise as a member of the Yale community

 

 

– References available upon request –