# Tim Hopkins > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_Hopkins > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_Hopkins.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hopkins > Source revision: 1256215723 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Australian musician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2011}} '''Tim Hopkins''', (born in [Auckland](/source/Auckland), New Zealand) is an [Australian](/source/Australians) [jazz](/source/jazz) musician who won the Australian National Jazz Award at the [Wangaratta Festival of Jazz](/source/Wangaratta_Festival_of_Jazz) in 1993. ==Career== Growing up in [Brisbane](/source/Brisbane), Australia, Hopkins had planned a career in [graphic arts](/source/graphic_arts), but took up the [saxophone](/source/saxophone) at age 15. He graduated from the [Sydney Conservatorium of Music](/source/Sydney_Conservatorium_of_Music) and performed with Australian jazz musicians [Vince Jones](/source/Vince_Jones), [Paul Grabowsky](/source/Paul_Grabowsky), [James Morrison](/source/James_Morrison_(musician)), [Don Burrows](/source/Don_Burrows), New Zealand musicians [Mike Nock](/source/Mike_Nock), Kim Patterson, [Kevin Field](/source/Kevin_Field), Frank Gibson Jnr, [Nathan Haines](/source/Nathan_Haines), Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, [King Kapisi](/source/King_Kapisi) and Gray Bartlett. Other credits include [You Am I](/source/You_Am_I), [Kate Ceberano](/source/Kate_Ceberano), [Ed Kuepper](/source/Ed_Kuepper), Doug Williams, [Midnight Oil](/source/Midnight_Oil), [Jackie Orszaczky](/source/Jackie_Orszaczky). His debut album in 1993 ''Good Heavens'' coincided with winning the National Jazz Saxophone Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in Australia.{{cite web |url=http://www.wangarattajazz.com/cms-jazz-awards/past-winners.phps |title=Past Winners |publisher=Wangaratta Festival of Jazz |accessdate=2011-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906005836/http://www.wangarattajazz.com/cms-jazz-awards/past-winners.phps |archivedate=2010-09-06 }} By the end of the 1990s he had recorded another four CDs, toured South East Asia, Canada and Europe. In 1999, on an Australia Arts Council grant, he studied with saxophonist [George Garzone](/source/George_Garzone) in New York City. While there, he played with [Jim Black](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Heineken_International) 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](/source/Mike_Nock), Max Stowers, Dixon Nacey, Aaron Coddel, [Jonathan Zwartz](/source/Jonathan_Zwartz) and Sean Wayland. == Discography == ===As leader=== *''Good Heavens!'' (1993) *''Pandora's Box'' (1994) *''Funkenstein'' (1995) *''Upon My Camel'' (1996) *''Popcorn'' (1997) *''Hear Now After'' (2008) *''Seven'' (2011) ===As sideman=== *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](/source/Black_Ticket_Day)'' (1992) *Barney McAll – ''Exit'' (1996) *James Muller Trio – ''All Out'' (1999) *Mike Nock Quartet – ''Dark and Curious'' (1991) *Mike Nock Quartet – ''Ozboppin''' (1998) *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== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, Tim}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Australian jazz saxophonists Category:Australian male saxophonists Category:Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni Category:New Zealand emigrants to Australia Category:21st-century Australian saxophonists Category:21st-century Australian male musicians Category:Australian male jazz composers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tim Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hopkins) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hopkins?action=history)). 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