Department of Music Faculty
Barbara Hopkins, DMAFlute(860) 486-5591
Hopkins teaches flute at the University of Connecticut and also taught community division students at the Hartt School. It was while teaching at the Hartt School that she conceived the idea for her first CD, Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano, when she realized her students needed to hear the repertoire that she was teaching and that much of it had never been recorded. Hopkins has written a number of pedagogical articles that have appeared in Flute Talk, The Gazette of the Greater Boston Flute Association, the Seattle Flute Society Newsletter, and The Flute Rag. Hopkins received her doctor of musical arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Samuel Baron. She earned her master of music degree from the Mannes College of Music under Thomas Nyfenger and her bachelor of music degree at the Hartt School with John Wion. |
Award-winning flutist Barbara Hopkins enjoys a varied career as performer and teacher. Since 1993 she has been a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, where she has appeared as soloist on both flute and piccolo. She has released two solo CDs, Telemann Methodical Sonatas, Vol. 1, and Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano. She has performed as soloist at National Flute Association conventions in Albuquerque, Seattle, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas, once as the first-prize winner of the Orchestral Audition Competition and twice as winner of the Convention Performers Competition. She has appeared as soloist in New York, Alaska and Florida and throughout her home state of Pennsylvania. Composer Edward Diemente has written several works for her, and she enjoys performing new music. Hopkins has been a top prize winner in the New York Flute Club Young Artist Competition and was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood Music Center, where she had the honor of playing principal flute under Leonard Bernstein.