John Hopkins OBE (born 19 July 1927) is a Yorkshire-born, British conductor and administrator. Hopkins moved to New Zealand in 1957 and to Australia in 1963. He conducted the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1987 in one of New Zealand's first Orchestral Composers' Reading Workshops. His current position is as head of conducting at the University of Melbourne.
John Hopkins founded in 1959 the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra in 1959, which c...
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John Hopkins OBE (born 19 July 1927) is a Yorkshire-born, British conductor and administrator. Hopkins moved to New Zealand in 1957 and to Australia in 1963. He conducted the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1987 in one of New Zealand's first Orchestral Composers' Reading Workshops. His current position is as head of conducting at the University of Melbourne.
John Hopkins founded in 1959 the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra in 1959, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009. John Hopkins was present for the NYO season in 2009.
As the Federal Director of Music for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Hopkins began a number of innovations within the Commission's Concert Music Division, such as starting an Australian Promenade (Proms) series in Sydney in 1965 and broadcasting international avant-garde classical music. As a part of the Proms concerts, Hopkins programmed a variety of music, from the Renaissance, performed by the Sydney group The Renaissance Players, the then...
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