Tim Hopkins
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Tim Hopkins, (born in Auckland, New Zealand) is an Australian jazz musician who won the Australian National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in 1993.
Career
Growing up in Brisbane, Australia, Hopkins had planned a career in graphic arts, but took up the saxophone at age 15. He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and performed with Australian jazz musicians Vince Jones, Paul Grabowsky, Mike Nock, James Morrison, Don Burrows, New Zealandmusicians Kim Patterson, Kevin Field, Frank Gibson Jnr, Nathan Haines, Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, King Kapisi and Gray Bartlett. Other credits include You Am I, Kate Ceberano, Ed Kuepper, Doug Williams, Midnight Oil, Jackie Orszaczky, and once briefly performed with Sting.[citation needed]
His debut album in 1993 Good Heavens coincided with winning the National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in Australia.[1] By the end of the 1990s he had recorded another four CDs, toured South East Asia, Canada and Europe and performed at jazz festivals[which?] in Montreal, Melbourne, Waiheke and Wellington.
In 1999, on an Australia Arts Council grant, he studied with saxophonist George Garzone in New York City. Whilst there, he played with Jim Black and Seamus Blake, and wrote, arranged and performed with an ensemble called Phydia featuring a string quartet with a standard jazz quartet line up.
In 2000, Hopkins moved back to New Zealand and began recording and compiling his 6th solo CD Hear Now After. The first single Loophole features TV presenter Russell Harrison on vocals, rapper King Kapisi, percussionist Miguel Fuentes and Hopkins on an assortment of instruments. Loophole was included on a NZ On Air compilation disc and features a black and white video directed by the NZ Independent Film Company.
Hopkins helped to start the Heineken Green Room Sessions in New Zealand with DJ Clarke and The Gordon Bennett Project. GBP have also played at the Heineken Open, headlined in Malaysia and Singapore at several big events and released a double CD recorded at Millton Vineyards & Winery in Gisborne.
Hear Now After, which was released in March 2008, features many of the musicians listed above and other players from New Zealand and Australia, including appearances by drummer Tony Hopkins, Mike Nock, Max Stowers, Dixon Nacey, Aaron Coddel, Jonathan Zwartz and Sean Wayland.
Hopkins returned to Sydney where he is performing and producing music, and designing websites.
Discography
- Good Heavens! (1993)
- Pandora's Box (1994)
- Funkenstein (1995)
- Upon My Camel (1996)
- Popcorn (1997)
- Hear Now After (2008)
Sideman credits
- The Aints – Ascension (1992)
- The Aints – Autocannibalism (1992)
- Australian Art Orchestra – Ringing The Bell Backwards
- D.I.G. (Directions In Groove) – Deeper (1994)
- Lily Dior – Invitation (1998)
- Paul Grabowsky – Viva Viva (1994)
- Vince Jones – Here's To The Miracles (1996)
- Ed Kuepper – Black Ticket Day (1992)
- Barney McAll – Exit (1996)
- James Muller Trio – All Out (1999)
- Mike Nock Quartet – Dark and Curious (1991)
- Jackie Orszaczky Budget Orchestra – Deep Down and Out (1998)
- Niko Schauble's Tibetan Dixie – Ya It Ma Thing
- Sean Wayland – South Pacific Soul (2002)
References
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External links
- Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015
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- Official website not in Wikidata
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- Australian jazz saxophonists
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni
- New Zealand emigrants to Australia
