Name	Josh Hopkins
Height	6'2
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	12-Sep-1970
Place of Birth	America
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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 has signed an exclusive recording contract with ATMA Classique and his first recital recording on the label is to be released in 2010. Operatic engagements of the present season include the artist's Metropolitan Opera debut as Ping in Turandot, conducted by Andris Nelsons, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Opera Lyra Ottawa and the Santa Fe Opera with Lawrence Renes, Olivier in Capriccio at Pacific Opera Victoria, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Arizona Opera, and Sid in Albert Herring at the Santa Fe Opera under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis. Mr. Hopkins tours North America with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy offering performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah in Quebec, Montreal, Los Angeles, and at Carnegie Hall in New York. Under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the artist appears in recital at the Santa Fe Concert Association and, in conjunction with the Gilmore Festival, Mr. Hopkins presents an all-Schumann program for recital appearances in Michigan.

During the past season, Mr. Hopkins bowed as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Madison Opera, Valentin in Faust with Calgary Opera, and as Junius in a new Paul Curran production of The Rape of Lucretia with the Central City Opera and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera covering Belcore in L'elisir d'amore and Lescaut in Act III of Manon in the Opening Night Gala of the 2008-09 season. Mr. Hopkins' dynamic concert schedule included performances of Die Zauberflöte with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Labadie, Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum with Bernard Labadie and the San Francisco Symphony.

The Canadian baritone returned to the Houston Grand Opera in 2007-08 for a role debut as Marcello in La bohème, where he also covered the title role of Billy Budd, bowed at Arizona Opera as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Verbier Festival. He made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy in performances of Peer Gynt, and sang Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy, as well as Messiah with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Sir Trevor Pinnock.

Operatic performances of past seasons have included I Pagliacci with Opera Carolina, Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito at L'Opéra de Montréal, Die Zauberflöte and Platée at Santa Fe Opera, Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Pacific, and Carmen for the Canadian Opera Company. Completing his training as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio in the spring of 2005, performances with the company also included the role of The Pilot in The Little Prince and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly.

Highlights of his concert schedule have included Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony, Bach's St. John Passion with Bernard Labadie and Ensemble Arion, and Messiah with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Profoundly committed to the art of song, Mr. Hopkins has given solo recitals in New York at Carnegie Hall with J.J. Penna, under the auspices of the Vancouver Recital Society with Graham Johnson, and in Toronto, in conjunction with The Aldeburgh Connection, offering a program entitled 'Schubert's Florilegium' highlighting many of the Lieder about flowers written by the composer. He is proud to have given the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas' Rilke Songs at Zankel Hall in New York and to have joined Barbara Bonney for performances of songs by three generations of Mozart (Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus, and Franz Xaver) under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He also has collaborated, in a program of Haydn part songs, with pianist Richard Goode.

Joshua Hopkins was a prize winner at the prestigious ARD Musikwettbewerb of 2006, at the 2005 Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition held in Madrid, and, in 2002, José Carreras presented him with the first place prize in the Julián Gayarre International Singing Competition. The artist also is the recipient of prizes from the George London Foundation, the Sylvia Gelber Foundation Award of the Canada Arts Council, and from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation.