Record ID:
35657124 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 83066255
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19270719
Death:
  • 20130930
Occupations:
  • Conductor
Notes:
  • Hopkins, John Raymond
  • Wikipedia entry, viewed 28 April, 2011 (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 ... In 1974 he became the inaugural Dean of the School of Music at the newly formed Victorian College of the Arts. In 1974 he led the world premiere of Sculthorpe's opera/music theatre work Rites of Passage. He was Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1986 to 1991. He currently is professor of conducting at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, and still does some guest conducting with community and youth orchestras.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopkins_(conductor)
  • John Hopkins, Resonate magazine, viewed online 1 November, 2013 (John Hopkins (1927-2013) One of Australia's most esteemed conductors and administrators, British-born John Hopkins OBE AM died in Melbourne late at night on 30 September. Born in Yorkshire on 19 July 1927...) http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/john-hopkins-1927-2013
  • Sculthorpe, P. Sun music I. [Phonodisc] 1967?
  • Oxford companion to Australian music, 1997 (Hopkins, John Raymond; b. July 19, 1927, Preston, nr. Hall, England; conductor, music administrator)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)69762
  • 000000661038
  • abv00939379
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc