Award winning flutist Barbara Hopkins enjoys a varied career as performer and teacher. She is a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and teaches flute at the University of Connecticut. She has released two solo CD’s, Telemann Methodical Sonatas, Vol. 1 and Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano. Barbara has been a top prize winner in the National Flute Association Competition and the New York Flute Club Young Artist Competition, and was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood Music Center, where she had the honor of playing principal flute under Leonard Bernstein.
A cousin of early American flute maker Asa Hopkins and a great niece of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Barbara has great interest in early American music. She has formed a duo with guitarist Judy Handler, and is playing concerts on an authentic Asa Hopkins flute which has been restored to playing condition.
Hopkins received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Samuel Baron. She earned her Master of Music from The Mannes College of Music under Thomas Nyfenger, and her Bachelor of Music at The Hartt School with John Wion.
